Augmented Reality – Domestic RoboCop
Very cool.
A Crash Course in Changing The World
Our goal: to empower young people all over the world, and especially in Africa, to start tackling the world’s toughest problems: poverty, hunger, sustainable energy, water security, conflict, disaster relief, health care, education, human rights.
EVOKE is free to play, and open to anyone, anywhere in the world. It launches on March 3, 2010 and concludes on May 12, 2010. EVOKE was developed by the World Bank Institute, and directed by alternate reality game master Jane McGonigal. For press/media inquiries, please contact evokenet@gmail.com
EVOKE is an online game designed to teach collaboration, creativity, knowledge networking, entrepreneurship, courage, resourcefulness, sustainability, and vision.
Visualizations: Britain From Above
More eye candy than anything else, but inspiring ways of tracking movement in modern society. Each video is a about a minute long.
British information infrastructure –
Population:
Shipping across the Channel:
Taxis tracked by GPS:
Air traffic:
iPhone Accelerometer As a Control Interface
Hans Scharler put this together. Simple component class for a broader system.