The Getty announced today that it was lifting restrictions on the use of images to which the Getty holds all the rights or are in the public domain. Getty President and CEO Jim Cuno made the announcement in a post on The Iris, the Getty’s blog.
"As of today, the Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds all the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose," wrote Cuno, citing the new program.
As a result, there are roughly 4,600 images from the J. Paul Getty Museum available in high resolution on the Getty's website for use without restriction...
See the full press release here: http://news.getty.edu/press-materials/press-releases/getty-open-content-images.htm
Martin's startup, Bionym, is going public with its first device, the Nymi, after research and development that goes back more than 10 years. It centers on a person's electrocardiogram, a measure not of your heart rate but of the electrical activity generated by your heart. A person's ECG is dependent on the size, position, and physiology of their heart, and it's completely unique to every person. It's as unique to you as your fingerprint, and unlike your fingerprint you're not leaving your ECG on glasses or windows or cell phones everywhere you go. That ECG is what Bionym uses to identify you as you.
"We're really interested in how to create hyper-personalized experiences," he tells me, which includes everything from setting the ambient temperature when you walk into a room to remembering your particular settings on the washing machine. Couple that with the rudimentary gesture recognition in the bracelet, and Martin doesn't sound so crazy when he says we'll be able to unlock our car, open its trunk, and start playing our favorite radio station with just one flick of our wrist.
See the full story here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/3/4688162/bionym-nymi-could-replace-all-your-passwords
Almost 60 percent of polled Internet users don't believe it is possible to remain completely anonymous on the Web, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. More than 85 percent of those surveyed, in fact, have taken steps to remove or mask their digital footprints—such as clearing cookies, encrypting their email, not using their real names online, cloaking their IP addresses, and more. A majority of respondents also said they'd taken even more proactive steps in an attempt to avoid being targeted by hackers, advertisers, and other unwanted online attention.
"Asked whether they think current privacy laws provide reasonable protections for people's privacy in their online activities, 66 percent of all adults said the laws are 'not good enough,'" Pew said. About 24 percent said legal safeguards in place provide reasonable protection.
Even with fears of Big Brother breathing down our online necks, only 5 percent of those surveyed said they are trying to hide activities from the government; 4 percent said the same of law enforcement. Most Web users, in fact, are simply trying to protect themselves from criminals, marketers, and people from their past.
See the full story here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2424034,00.asp
The first commercial installation of a laser movie projector is scheduled for early next year at Seattle Cinerama, a theater owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The theater will be the first to acquire Christie Digital’s laser projector, as the technology has just been approved by the FDA. While laser projectors are more expensive than current systems, they are expected to improve 3D projection and eliminate the need to replace bulbs and cool projection booths.
Read the full story here: http://www.etcentric.org/first-commercial-installation-of-laser-projector-scheduled/
The device is called Spiri and it is an autonomous quadrotor with a few extras on it. Spiri its self is made with reinforced carbon fiber ribbons that protect the four blades and then a reinforced shell around the electronics. Under the reinforced shell Spiri there are many different components. Some of the different components that Spiri has are accelerometers, gyroscope and magnetometer, a GPS, a downward-facing acoustic sensor, a downward-facing camera, a forward-facing camera and a forward-facing range finder. In order to use all of these components it has a dual core 1 GHz processor which is accompanied with 4 GB of onboard storage.
See the full story here: http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2013/8/27/kickstarter-weekly-5---august-27th.aspx
There will be a lot to see at IBC around 4K. It is certainly reminiscent of the rush of broadcast and production providers to add stereoscopic support to their products 3 years ago, so I will be anxious to hear what these companies think of 4K vs. 3D.
(Submitted comment: "Thank you for an interesting article. I would rather hope that IBC 2013 is instead remembered for the start of the High Dynamic Range (HDR)revolution in broadcasting.")
Read the full story here: http://www.display-central.com/free-news/display-daily/4k-will-be-a-key-highlight-of-ibc-2013/?utm_source=Insight+Media+Subscribers&utm_campaign=8e979ed157-Weekly_news_07_09_20127_9_2012&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8e331e0181-8e979ed157-10886373
DOTS was originally developed by Eastman Kodak in the 1990s at a cost of more than $80 million, but was eventually abandoned in 2002, according to Rob Hummel, the CEO of Group 47. In 2010, Group 47 was founded and acquired the technology, including patents and related intellectual property.
The archiving of film and historical material is a global issue that goes beyond the entertainment industry. “Group 47 is also working with some government agencies who are very supportive [of DOTS],” notes Hummel.
Read the full story here: http://www.etcentric.org/dots-technology-could-solve-hollywood-archiving-challenges/
and the original story here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/digital-archiving-technology-dots-could-612674
[Philip Lelyveld; this is more of a recognition of lifetime achievement that a discovery of older innovators, but it is still a good list.]
To complement our list of young innovators, here are several who have been at it for decades.
For over a decade, we’ve celebrated innovators under the age of 35. We choose to write about the young because we want to introduce you to the most promising new technologists, researchers, and entrepreneurs. But I often hear: You really think older people can’t innovate?
Of course they can. We meet extraordinary older innovators all the time, who after a lifetime of creativity are still solving big problems, generating wealth, or expanding our conception of what it means to be human. Below, in reverse alphabetical order, are seven innovators over the age of 70, chosen arbitrarily, because I am attracted to their lives, work, and character, and not according to the formal nomination and judging process that selected the 35 Innovators Under 35.
Read the full story here: http://www.technologyreview.com/fromtheeditor/518386/seven-over-70/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130823
In a story making the rounds on the internet, a Georgetown professor lost a bunch of books he’d downloaded from Google when he traveled to Singapore. But this isn’t an example of DRM run amok.
At Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow picked up the story under the headline “Cross a border, lose your ebooks,” writing that the episode “points out just how totally, irretrievably broken the idea of DRM and region-controls for ebooks is.” And the story is still getting play today.
Except…DRM had nothing to do with this episode, and in fact, O’Donnell hadn’t actually bought the books in question. They were all public-domain titles, which he had downloaded from Google for free.
In addition, Google reached out to Gizmodo to “explain that this is not normal or intended behavior for the Google Books app, but instead the result of a bug. Google Play stores will not allow additional purchases while in territories where they do not operate, but this active removal of content was apparently an isolated issue unrelated to normal Google Books DRM behavior.”
Boing Boing hasn’t corrected its story.
Read the full story here: http://gigaom.com/2013/08/22/chill-out-drms-not-the-reason-that-guy-lost-his-public-domain-google-ebooks/?utm_source=General+Users&utm_campaign=90f8cc4063-c%3Amed+d%3A08-23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1dd83065c6-90f8cc4063-99147229
What's black and white and has lasers? The MakerBot(R) Digitizer(TM) Desktop 3D Scanner! The MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner is a fast and easy way for anyone to create 3D models. MakerBot, the leader in Desktop 3D Printing, announced the availability of the MakerBot Digitizer on its website. The MakerBot Digitizer is for sale worldwide on makerbot.com/digitizer. Pre-orders are being taken now, with shipping expected mid-October. Current price is $1,400 plus an optional $150 for MakerBot Digitizer MakerCare, a service and support program.
See the full story here:
The Getty announced today that it was lifting restrictions on the use of images to which the Getty holds all the rights or are in the public domain. Getty President and CEO Jim Cuno made the announcement in a post on The Iris, the Getty’s blog.
Martin's startup, Bionym, is going public with its first device, the Nymi, after research and development that goes back more than 10 years. It centers on a person's electrocardiogram, a measure not of your heart rate but of the electrical activity generated by your heart. A person's ECG is dependent on the size, position, and physiology of their heart, and it's completely unique to every person. It's as unique to you as your fingerprint, and unlike your fingerprint you're not leaving your ECG on glasses or windows or cell phones everywhere you go. That ECG is what Bionym uses to identify you as you.
The device is called Spiri and it is an autonomous quadrotor with a few extras on it. Spiri its self is made with reinforced carbon fiber ribbons that protect the four blades and then a reinforced shell around the electronics. Under the reinforced shell Spiri there are many different components. Some of the different components that Spiri has are accelerometers, gyroscope and magnetometer, a GPS, a downward-facing acoustic sensor, a downward-facing camera, a forward-facing camera and a forward-facing range finder. In order to use all of these components it has a dual core 1 GHz processor which is accompanied with 4 GB of onboard storage.