Loading ...I came across a couple of awesome, must-share links yesterday. Firstly, the Twitter technology blog made a post regarding an iPhone anti-theft app which will automatically ‘tweet’ from your iPhone to a private Twitter channel (What are you doing? Well, I’m eagerly awaiting my next synchronization with iTunes). The tweets have triangulated geo-coordinates attached to them, which isn’t so good for would-be thieves. As I was reading the post, I literally said ‘awesome!’, out-loud, at which point I decided it was worth saving to del.icio.us. The only other person to save it to my favourite bookmarking service had already tagged it ‘awesome’, which obviously made me laugh (out-loud, again):
Next up, we have the Wii 3D VR experience. This is an awesome video on an innovative application of the coolest video game console controller ever devised. I could try to explain what you’re about to see, but I’ll leave it to the genius behind it; Johnny Lee does a fantastic job of explaining his project, so prepare to be enthralled. I love it when he pulls on the shades and busts out the moves:
After seeing the above video sent to me by Justin James, I only have one thing to say: Give Jonny his PhD! Johnny Lee is a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University who took a standard Nintendo Wii remote and turned a monitor in to something special. You can check out the video above and actually find a sample program here on his website. You can find Wii Remotes for $40 at places like Amazon.com and you may also need a Bluetooth USB dongle for $10.
George Ou, I couldn’t agree more!
