Augmented Reality in Cell phone

Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo.
This to me is the killer app for augmented reality technology...this is sooooo cool man!

Code visualization!

code_swarm - Eclipse (short ver.) from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.
Saw this on FlowingData. Agree with him when he wrote "..one of the many reasons why I love data visualization."

Tall buildings

Not sure how it'd feel like to live/work near the top of these buildings...


Chicago Spire


Burj Dubai

Some cool innovations

Came across a few interesting "test-mode" innovations today...

Magenn Power is working on a floating air rotar system....rationale is that wind is a lot stronger higher up in the sky...think one main challenge is that they gotta fix the axis of rotation to fully capitalize on the wind flow (judging from this video):



Another one is this Virtual Cable company that tries to put the Google Map street view thingy right into the windshield of the car...

Cool magnetic sculpture

Playing with ferrofluid..

WebCam tracking

The video is abit amateurish...but it shows one of the applications similar to the infra-red camera multi-touch videos from Johnny Lee (blogged here)...looks like a new wave of sign language geared for "mid-air" computer interface manipulation is in order...

Cool animation of Jean Nouvel project in Paris

Gets much cooler halfway through the video!

Awesome stunts in GTA IV

Now i'm not a gamer..but still damn cool to watch these stunts in GTA IV...i especially love the flying ones...

Killing chicken to eat chicken

Another one of those videos that make me wanna turn vegetarian...explanation from Jamie Olivers

Bhutan: lost in democracy

Great documentary from CurrentTv! I'd love to travel there to see this "last shangri-la" for myself..

Photosynth at Microsoft

I actually got to play with Photosynth a while back...i think this technology has huge potential..."creating hyperlink among related pictures" automatically is definitely a leap in technology...i can't see why this can't be applied to "creating hyperlink among related videos" further down the road...imagine a football match where there're hundreds of video footages by professional cameramen or even from spectators taking video from the stand...there'd be one additional dimension (time) to worry about (beyond what they've applied to space right now)...but somehow that seems to me a easier challenge than the one they're solving right...it's a technology worth staying in touch with the progress...

Hang Drum

man i didn't even know such an instrument exist! freakin cool!

Flying Bike with Google Earth

man! all he needs is a bigger LCD display or a projector...still damn cool thou~

Cool Google Earth features~

Often times, when I come across another cool new stuff coming from the Google campus (like the one shown above), I'd feel like going to buy Google shares immediately...until i remember that a gd company does not equate gd stock..but still, Google has been consistently innovating...a company i truly admire~

Interesting Architecture Animations

Ever since I started this job in real estate, I've become exposed to an area of design that has largely been left out of my realm of "known existence" in the past...it helps that my bro, Sam, is studying architecture and started showing me stuff that is truly pleasing to the eye...anyway, here're a few architecture videos I came across...


Museum Plaza by OMA


Dynamic "rotating" building proposed for Dubai

Unfortunately i couldn't find a video of the Kingdom Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia...I was fortunate to stay in the Four Seasons there once..truly amazing building..here're some pictures:

Microsoft's TouchWall

It's only a matter of time...i predict these sort of multi-wall surface will be all over in malls and in homes in the next few yrs..and its price would only be as expensive as the LCD projector...the infrared sensor/camera should be dirt cheap..i'm excited about the stuff that ppl can use this with...

Simulation of 9/11 Attack

Amazing clouds

Clouds never cease to amaze me...

Will Ferrell + Little Girl = Funny shit!

This is awesome! hahaha

Linked Hybrid - interesting architecture

Steven Holl's project in Beijing...interesting stuff!