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06.08.07

Last.fm Mainstream-O-Meter
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http://mainstream.vincentahrend.com How it works: The Mainstream-O-Meter calculates your mainstreamness by comparing the listener count of your favorite bands to the average listener count of the five bands who have the most listeners among Last.fm-users. Of course, the results may be different from what you would've thought of as mainstream. Some bands which have a lot of listeners in real life don't have a large fanbase on Last.fm since people who use this service tend to be younger and more experienced with computers than the average person. Because of the restricted number of users, some genres like classical music and countries like India ...
06.03.07

Seadragon demo at TED
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06.03.07

Microsoft Surface:bringing multi touch to life
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP5y7yp06n0[/youtube] I've been a huge fan of this technology for the last few years. Here is a demo of this technology pre-Microsoft. I can't believe Microsoft is the one finally bringing this to the market. The world is definitely a more fun place when Apple isn't the only innovator of technology. Here's another video of Jeff Han demoing this technology at TED last year. And finally here is a hands on demo of the Microsoft Surface product. One of my only concerns with this technology is germs. Is there a windshield wiper with anti-bacterial soap that pops out and cleans the ...
11.05.06

Why 1080p doesn’t matter unless you go over 65″
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The ideal viewing distance for a 42" 720p display, for example, is 7.7 feet. If you view it closer than 7.7 feet, most people will be able to see individual pixels, but at distances further than 7.7 feet, you can't see them. In the case of a 42" 1080p display, the ideal viewing distance is only 5.5 feet--beyond that, you can't see the pixels and you can't really appreciate the full resolution of the display. In other words, it would be virtually impossible to distinguish between a 42" 720p display and 42" 1080p at distances of about six feet or ...

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