Saturday, 11 May 2013
Alt-week 5.11.13: drones, more drones and dual perspective advertising
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El último vuelo
Teruo, Tom, Günther y Alain son cuatro pilotos que luchan en la segunda guerra mundial en distintos frentes, pero sus historias están entrelazadas aunque ellos no lo sepan y sólo Hugault y sus lectores participen de secreto.
Como en El Gran Duque, del mismo autor, la atención al detalle de los dibujos no dejará frío a ningún aerotrastornado, y la historia tampoco está nada mal, adentrándose en las motivaciones que llevan a estos cuatro jóvenes a enfrentarse a su destino al último vuelo de cada uno de ellos, recordándonos que la imagen de glamour que normalmente se asocia a los pilotos de caza no siempre tiene mucho que ver con la realidad.
via Microsiervos http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/comics/el-ultimo-vuelo.html
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Vídeo: The Clockmakers
Una película de animación experimental de esas que tanto nos gustan aquí porque parecen clips de Barrio Sésamo adaptados al siglo XXI.
Es un trabajo de Renaud Hallée y resulta bastante hipnótico e incluso un poco escheriano (¡ah, si nuestro admirado artista hubiera podido hacer vídeo!).
via Microsiervos http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/arte-y-diseno/video-the-clockmakers.html
University of Georgia stops plant photosynthesis to generate solar power
Matemáticas + superhéroes = Batmath!
Sencillas pero superpoderosas operaciones con conocidos personajes y sus superpoderes/gadgets: Batmath! vía I Love Charts.
via Microsiervos http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/humor/batmath-matematicas-superheroes.html
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Norway's Crown Prince And Princess Talk Startups And Try Out The Oculus Rift
Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon and his wife Princess Mette-Marit were in Silicon Valley this week, and I asked them about their hopes to bring more startups and innovation to their home country.
I interviewed Haakon and Mette-Marit at Norway’s Innovation House Silicon Valley, a co-working space in Palo Alto for Norwegian startups looking to enter the US market. The couple saw demos from several startups — the prince even tried on some Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles — it was part of Making View‘s demo of its technology for capturing and exploring 360-degree video footage. (He said it was “pretty awesome.”)
Haakon actually lived in the Bay Area a decade ago, when he was attending UC Berkeley. He told me that he also attended the opening of the Innovation House 18 months earlier — since then, it has been used by more than 25 companies. Norway is “constantly trying to foster a culture of innovation,” he said.
When I asked what kind of relationship they would like to see between Norway and Silicon Valley, Mette-Marit said:
I think it’s important that we have this house as a starting point. But obviously, we also have examples of companies that have been doing very good here before this house came … I think that’s important that you have some companies that have done well and are willing to take on a sort of mentoring role for the other companies coming after.
I didn’t get a chance to go into too much depth with the couple, but I though it was interesting to see them discussing these issues at all. The video concludes with a short interview and demo of technology from Elliptic Labs, one of the companies at the Innovation House. It’s developing gesture-based controls, sort of like Leap Motion, but designed to integrate with tablets and smartphones.
By the way, you might notice that I usually refer to the crown prince and princess in the third person. That’s because I was told that’s the polite way to address royalty, though I suspect I still messed it up somehow.
via TechCrunch » Startups http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/startups/~3/jCGwior9iP8/
The Daily Roundup for 05.10.2013
Facebook Home Gets Unofficial Support on More Phones
