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When I explore I taken stack loads of pictures, but also like to take video. The video is taken on my digital camera and so is frankly rather shaky and also relatively low resolution at 640×480. Here’s a remarkable bit of research that looks to combine both to improve the resulting video with remarkable results!  It’s all rather geeky but watch the video to be amazed, and also to grin at the repeated reference to the “spacetime fusion algorithm”. Doc Brown eat your heart out :-).

One of the big reasons I’ve never moved away from using a bridge camera and gone the DSLR path is because I like having a single device I can shoot pictures and video footage on when I’m exploring. DLSRs have historically be far to snooty to do video … until now! I’ve always preferred the colour balance on Nikon’s too since it matches the vivid style that my eyes (and my current Sony) see things in too.

The press like writing about Urban Explorers because we’re a cheap target. Often a local rag will use loaded inflammatory phrases like “breaking in” and “thrill seeker” to write about a site in their readerships’ locale and then ask the site owner to comment. Frequently they’ll steal pictures off our websites and use them in the article, even though the copyright theft they practice is a criminal offence, vs. the purely civil act of trespass I undertake when exploring a site.

Anyhow, the local paper in Croydon likes writing about their own local mecca of exploration … Cane Hill Hospital. This time the article was about videos of it being explored on YouTube, and of course I like making videos and putting them on YouTube. Indeed my directorial genius and clever soundtrack choice means I’m now famous ;-).

Here’s the article on the Croydon Advertiser’s site and here’s a direct link to the video in question.

I’d noticed lots of coverage but this news is truly shocking!

… I’m going medium format baby for my next trusty exploring camera!

One of my technology strands for the year is about how our style of interaction with technology is changing. I regularly talk to customers about things like touch interfaces in the iPhone, motion interfaces with the Wii, and even mind interfaces with the Emotiv headset.

For the DJs amongst you I thought this one was rather fun too.

So this blog has been embarrassingly quiet of late. No particular reason beyond being busy with other stuff.

However, to wake things up I present to you a bit of absolutely quality celebrity location exploring!

… and 1500 Mentos and what do you get?

Doh.

So recently as part of my job of being an over excited emerging technology evangelist type geeky person, I’ve been talking to customers about how the way that humans interact with computers is changing. Things like the iPhone with a multi-touch interface, the Wii with its physicality and very useful IR tracking camera, or even spookier the eMotiv mind control headset! It’s all about the interfaces “disappearing” as you just do what you’d expect to do to make something happen, rather than using a keyboard/mouse and navigating a complex UI that you have to learn.

Anyhow whilst browsing Gizmodo I happened upon yet another “natural” interaction approach. Since it’s most definitely NSFW I won’t be showing this one in a presentation anytime soon, but it made me chuckle. Here’s the NSFW link to it.