Remember Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ dazzling demo of Photosynth (one of the Top 10 TEDTalks of all time)? The software has been released this week by Microsoft Live Labs, and it’s as much fun to play with as it was to watch.
If you run Windows, go play with Photosynth >>
UPDATE: Or use Photosynth to solve crime like they do on CSI:New York >>
The best tech demos at TEDCalling all self-proclaimed tech nerds! TED2013, themed “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.,” begins in six days. As we cover the conference live — blogging each and every of the 70 speakers, including those from the worldwide talent search — we will be anxiously awaiting a demo that sets everyone in the theatre a-buzz. In preparation, […]
TED gets hilariously fictionalized: A Q&A with author Maria SempleNew York Times reviewer Janet Maslin calls Maria Semple’s new book, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, a “sparkling novel” full of “free-range hilarity.” Maslin continues, “The tightly constructed Where’d You Go, Bernadette is written in many formats — e-mails, letters, F.B.I. documents, correspondence with a psychiatrist and even an emergency-room bill for a run-in between Bernadette […]
