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Tuesday, July 22, 2003 |
I'm hoping that this post works on radio from my email.
Just testing!
7:24:28 PM 
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Pretty innovative. This has to be a knob tweakers heaven.
"Audiopad is something I have developed with electronic musician and fellow Media Lab graduate student Ben Recht.
It is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. One can pull sounds from a giant set of samples, juxtapose archived recordings against warm synthetic melodies, cut between drum loops to create new beats, and apply digital processing all at the same time on the same table. Audiopad not only allows for spontaneous reinterpretation of musical compositions, but also creates a visual and tactile dialogue between itself, the performer, and the audience."
Audiopad has a matrix of antenna elements which track the positions of electronically tagged objects on a tabletop surface. Software translates the position information into music and graphical feedback on the tabletop. Each object represents either a musical track or a microphone."
9:44:15 AM
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I love this idea. When Tammy and I were Germany two years ago, we took my Garmin everywhere. Not only did it help us figure out where to go (we had the German Mapsource data loaded), but we can go back now and figure out when we went where and how we got there.
My dream would be to have Radio autoload the pictures, lat / long data from an email whilst my digital camera records the lat / long of each pic. Maybe some location audio and commentary as mp3?
"In "The merging of GPS and the Web," Kurt Cagle raises interesting issues. Right now, there are not enough standards to really integrate global positioning system (GPS) and Web applications, but they are emerging.
He first looks at map applications, like a mall description. Cagle also talks about a new language to be submitted to the W3C, the GPSml markup language, which would be used to describe, routes between two locations. This can open the road for new Web services due to the association of one element of GPSml with a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). Of course, this kind of information and services could potentially be used by marketers who would be able to track individual shopping habits.
Finally, Cagle thinks that we'll soon see geeplogs (short for GPS-logs) through the use of the RSS specification. "[These geeplogs] will be the GPS equivalents to blogs, in which a person could narrate a specific tour with his or her relevant commentary, possibly with photographs or video feeds." This summary of the TechRepublic story contains more details." [via Smart Mobs]
9:14:58 AM
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