3D Visualisation and Graphics Programming Interest Group

Microsoft Home is a concept developed to give you an idea about how technology will change your personal life and home in the future. The video shows concepts involving technologies such as gestures and voice control to help out with your daily work.

[source: BBC]

DisplayLink has reached a new milestone with the USB-based graphics adapters; 1 million sold units. The company says it will move forward with new products in the coming months, as technologies such as wireless USB and USB 3.0 becomes available.

Here is a beatiful video showing visualisation made easy -- boards and chalk. Not exactly related to this blog, but hard not to be impressed by the artistic touch and fantastic ideas anyway. Fantastic, enjoy everybody!

Firekites - AUTUMN STORY - chalk animation from Lucinda Schreiber on Vimeo.

Moto Development Group seems to be doing well with their new multitouch screen technology based on what is referred to as "extremely fine" wires to conduct signals rather than ITO (indium tin oxide) as found in Apple Iphones and the likes.

According to Moto, the technology will allow scalability up to 50", with dimensions and pricing comparable to existing LCD-screen technology. This should for sure result in some very nice products such as multitouch enabled coffee tables and similar in a much better form factor that existing products based on bulky projectors. From the video, it seems that Moto are on track.

Scalable Multi-Touch Prototype from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo.

[source: Engadget.com]

HealthMap.org has found an excellent way of using Google Maps as a visualisation technology to spread information about the "Swine Flue" (H1N1) -- rather than the flue itself -- on the internet. The Google Maps mashup shows all the available information about the observations of H1N1 with a nice timeline to move back and forth.

[source: VizWorld.com]