Is this the end of your mouse?

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

… earlier today in Antwerp:

I saw the Google maps car!

I follow Rhymo and Dutchcowboy for a while now on twitter. These two blokes from the Netherlands are hardcore mobile fanatics who can’t sit still. Yesterday they launched Layer, worlds first mobile Augmented Reality browser for mobile. After a couple of hours they reached +40k views with the demo, today they added another 60k!

The demo looks quite impressive:

Now all we have to do is buy a G1 or a HTC Magic phone and move to the north.

Anyway, well done guys, (quote from Youtube comment) this is putting Holland on the innovation market.

Make yourself comfortable and watch this… What would e-mail look like when it was invented today?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

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Try it out at www.wolframalpha.com

Below you can see the live streaming of the Wolfram Alpha release control room. I’m glad I’m not there, it looks a bit like NASA… We’ll do a review in a couple of days. Please stay tuned

Watch live video from Wolfram|Alpha on Justin.tv

It was in the paper today, I received a bunch of newsletters from it, but it’s not live yet… Yes, I’m talking about Wolfram Alpha! Luckely for us, the following YouTube movie shows a good preview. Enjoy!

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Let’s talk about Multicolr Search Lab.

This tool is not new, but very handy. Especially when you’re looking for quality pics with certain colors schemes. Just select up to 10 colors and this tool will search the huge Flickr database for pictures with a creative common licence! This is very handy to create mood boards, or to find dummy pictures for your design.

Example: Select 1 color (blue)

Select 2 colors (Blue + Red)

Select 3 colors (Blue + Red + Black)

And so on…

This tool is made by Idée (http://www.ideeinc.com/), the same guys behind TinEye (http://tineye.com/).

Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online … sort of.

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We’ve still got a long way to go before human beings can be beamed from one place to another Star Trek-style, but on Friday a team of scientists at the University of Maryland achieved, nonetheless, a milestone in teleportation.

According to LiveScience, the university’s Joint Quantum Institute for the first time was able to teleport information between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter–about one step for an adult.

The overview of the experiment’s setup.

Generally, teleportation works thanks to a remarkable quantum phenomenon called entanglement that only occurs on the atomic and subatomic scale. Once two objects are put in an entangled state, their properties are inextricably entwined. In layman’s terms, if they are in entangled mode, what you “see” on one is what you get on the other.

The JQI team set out to entangle the quantum states of two individual ytterbium ions so information embodied in one could be teleported to the other. Each ion was isolated in a separate high-vacuum trap, suspended in an invisible cage of electromagnetic fields and surrounded by metal electrodes.

After that, the experiment worked like this: Single photons from each of two ions in separate traps interacted at a beamsplitter. When both detectors recorded a photon simultaneously, the ions were entangled. At that point, ion A was measured, revealing exactly what operation had to be performed on ion B to teleport ion A’s information (see illustration at right).

It’s important to note that the achievement is not any form of conventional communication. This is because in teleportation no information pertaining to the original object actually travels to the other. Instead, the information measured from the first object appears on the second object.

(Credit: LiveScience)

Soon, when our ranch is completed, the Cowboys will have a Wii. Besides playing the Wii, we can also try out all kinds of new stuff… for example; Engineer David Phillip Oster’s Earth Surfer, an open source application that allows you to surf through Google Earth.

Looking forward to that!