Jose Hernandez-Rebollar, a researcher for George Washington University in the US has developed an electronic glove called the “AcceleGlove” that can translate the rapid hand movements used in sign language …
Divorcing via SMS in Malaysia
What is the world turning into? A Malaysian court has approved that Muslim men can divorce their wives via SMS using their mobile phones.
Sounds like Techno, a 4-part ABC online documentary
ABC Arts Online (Space) have released an excellent online documentary titled, Sounds like Techno, a four part story about techno music from Detroit house to the Dance floors of Australia. …
Siggraph Sydney (Pulse 002) presentation at COFA
Viv forwarded an email from Peter Giles, Head of Digital Media at the Australian Film Television and Radio School about next Tuesday’s Siggraph’s Sydney (Pulse 002) meeting at COFA. Representatives …
Photos from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission
Photos from the famous July 16, 1969 Apollo 11 mission, which landed man on the moon for the first time. The astronauts spent 8 days in space from liftoff to …
SMS, Email is changing how we say Hello-Goodbye
BBC reports that recent technologies such as sms and email is slowly changing the way we use language, words such as hello and goodbye are being replaced with Hey, G’day, …
Television standards for subtitles in the UK
I was watching Catch me if you can on DVD over the weekend with subtitles on and I noticed that at certain parts of the movie (about half way) titles …
UK Breaks dj, Adam Freeland on Triple J
If you’re in Australia (or online) and you enjoy Breaks and other slammin’ beats, don’t miss Mix-Up tomorrow night (Sat) on Triple J 105.7FM, with UK guest dj Adam Freeland …
A quote from Umberto Eco’s 1996 lecture, From Internet to Gutenberg
Even if it were true that today visual communication overwhelms written communication, the problem is not to oppose written to visual communication. The problem is how to improve both. Reference: …
Maya’s Methods when evaluating Interfaces
Whilst reading this blog post by Peter Merholz, which commented on the ACM Interactions article by Microsoft’s Dennis Wixon, Evaluating usability methods: Why the current literature fails the practitioner (which …
Sydney Information Architecture meet
Eric Scheid, who runs the really cool WiKi site, AIWiKi sent me an email the other day of an upcoming local Sydney Information Architecture meet on Thursday, 14th August, 2003. …
Macromedia release Flash Player 7 Beta
With possibly an indication that a new or updated version of Macromedia Flash might be around the corner, Macromedia have released a BETA version of their next Flash Player 7. …
Today is national Jeans for Genes Day
Today, Friday August 1 is National Jeans for Genes Day in Australia, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The event is a great cause to help find cures for …
Teens & young adults watch more Web than Television
NBC reports that Teenagers & Young adults are online longer than on Television per week. In addition: The American Academy of Paediatrics has published a report of possible negative health …
Don Norman on Activity-Centred Design
Don Norman has posted a really interesting article in JND on a remote control developed by a small company in Canada called Harmony, which is Activity-Centred. Their remote controls are …