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Congrats, JC! - Noel O'Boyle

examples of real-life technology that were likely influenced by technology used on Star Trek practically everywhere - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

Whatever the advances, though, focusing on the end user will be the driving force behind the true innovations - Opensource Obscure

"Open up a cardboard tube, roll out a transparent film just millimeters thick, apply it on a flat object and *tada* you’ve got an interactive touch surface. Cambridge-based Visual Planet just launched its new massive-sized multitouch thin film drivers so you can create touchscreens from 30 to 167 inches in size! Their touchfoil is a transparent nanowire embedded polymer capable of sensing the touch of a finger, or even pressure from wind and translating that to a computer interface. It works on glass, wood, and other non-conductive surfaces" - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

" I think there are too many drawbacks. They get grimy (who wants to touch something everyone else has touched?), they can get worn, they are locked into place, and your use of the technology is very public. People are going to watch what you’re doing. Compare that to augmented reality on your smart phone. You get similar levels of touch interaction with the real world, just on a... more... - Opensource Obscure

Thank you for any quick ideas! - Steve Koch from Bookmarklet

Thank you! - Steve Koch

"Making this adventure was fun. I took my Goonies on the first adventure and they all really enjoyed it. Then seeing total strangers having a go was great fun too. I enjoy watching how people work things out. It was also a great turn point in what i know is possible in SL. I am one man in a bedroom trying to create experiences that are traditionally done by a group of developers. In SL we can make a gaming experience, we are being given the tools to turn SL into a gaming platform. It's what i have dreamed of doing, this is proper indie stuff" - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

Jean-Claude Bradley and Andrew Lang present at the 5th Meeting on U.S. Government Chemical Databases and Open Chemistry on August 26, 2011 about "The collection, curation and modeling of Open Melting Point measurements". The talk also covers the role of Open Notebook Science and Google Apps Scripts in this effort. - Jean-Claude Bradley

Just edit app_settings\windlight\clouds2.tga - Opensource Obscure

it is useful for students to practice approximate calculations to avoid order of magnitude errors easily made on a calculator - Jean-Claude Bradley

"GanttProject is a cross-platform desktop tool for project scheduling and management. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX, it is free and its code is opensource." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

http://sourceforge.net/project... just was awarded a prize: http://www.berlin.de/projekt... - Daniel Mietchen

"Andy Pad Pro avrà un display sempre da 7 pollici ma capacitivo con risoluzione di 1024×600 pixel, 16 GB di memoria interna e 500 MB di RAM, fotocamera anteriore e posteriore, connettività Wi-Fi e Bluetooth, porta HDMI a 1080p, microUSB e slot per microSD, processore A8 da 1.2 GHz e anche qui troveremo Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Questa versione più completa costerà circa 200€" - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

Part of the gChem project started by Rich - Andrew Lang

See the following for instructions and screenshots: http://lxsrv7.oru.edu/~alang... - Andrew Lang

Mendeley? - Jason Priem

NICE. In particular, I like the quote in slide 71 "Facebook is the people you went to school with. Twitter is the people you wish you went to school with". A Classic :) - Graham Steel

Checking out the examples now, interesting to see use of Javascript http://api.plos.org/examples/ - Mike Chelen

Couple of updates for any of you entering the competition. Nephoscale are offering 10 free cloud servers for entrants using PLoS APIs see: http://blogs.plos.org/plos... And today we upgraded search to also include "search within figure caption" so now you can do cool things with our figures too. - Peter Binfield

Alternate camera settings you can easily enter into the viewer’s debug panel to get a better look at Second Life - Opensource Obscure

Marvellous! Looking forward to SL8B - Peter Miller