Cool! I am in Marie Claire Italy!

I just found out that Marie Claire Italy featured me in their December issue!

 

 It says:"

Le stelle di domani

25 come gli anni di Marie Claire: ecco i (nostri) talenti visionari che guardano al futuro."

Cati Boulanger, la più giovane ricercatrice Microsoft. Perché. Noi siamo alle prese col precariato, lei maneggia desktop 3D superfuturistici. Not bad, and I am carrying my baby!

Modular electronic coolness!

Another really cool project from fellow MIT Media Lab friend Michael Rosenblatt. Modular electronic blocks to make things that move and sense, with various level of difficulty. I can't wait to try the kit with my daughters ;) Congrats to the team!!

It is on kickstarter, but be quick, you can get the early first kit

Here is the video

Super neat robot that solves Rubik’s cubes

Great idea for Halloween!

Spiders trapped in a maquette of a building, then retro-projected from the inside of the building. Very scary!!

spider projection from Friedrich van Schoor on Vimeo.

I need more music in the office!

My new desktop 3D printer (for the fall!)

Impressive Lego Contraption

Making the Invisible Visible in Video

MIT researchers — graduate student Michael Rubinstein, recent alumni Hao-Yu Wu '12, MNG '12 and Eugene Shih SM '01, PhD '10, and professors William Freeman, Fredo Durand and John Guttag — will present new software at this summer's Siggraph, the premier computer-graphics conference, that amplifies variations in successive frames of video that are imperceptible to the naked eye. See the researchers' full video and learn more on the project's webpage: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/

Microsoft announces Suface today!

Welcome Surface! We all had our role in making you happen, I had the pleasure to work on your exploration phase ;)

A future for TV?

NeXtream offers a potentially interesting TV! "Functionally, television content delivery has remained largely unchanged since the introduction of television networks. NeXtream explores an experience where the role of the corporate network is replaced by a social network. User interests, communities, and peers are leveraged to determine television content, combining sequences of short videos to create a set of channels customized to each user. This project creates an interface to explore television socially, connecting a user with a community through content, with varying levels of interactivity: from passively consuming a series, to actively crafting one's own television and social experience."

This is a very interesting approach and project that not only challenges everything that makes TV lame, but also what makes watching content on a laptop based on friends' recommendations on social networks more integrated. TV becomes a new social activity, with tailored content. The only issue here is repetition that one might find in social networks. If your friends only watch gossipy content, you end up only hearing about that on your TV. On the bright side, it is also a channel to discover entirely new content by filtering and reviewing users "a la" stumbleupon. It was designed and built by ReeD Martin, Ana Luisa Santos, Mike Shafran, Henry Holtzman, and Marie-José Montpetit at the MIT Media Lab.