Beginning in Sydney, Australia three years ago, Earth Hour has grown into a global observance. States, large organizations and individual people observed Earth Hour 2010 on Saturday March 27th, as homes, office towers and landmarks turned off their lights for an hour starting at 8.30 pm local time to raise awareness about climate change and the threat from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Collected here are a series of before-and-after photographs from this year - which (starting with the second one below) will fade between "on" and "off" when clicked.

These two photos show Malaysia's landmark Petronas Twin Towers before, left, and after being turned off its lights to mark Earth Hour in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, March 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)




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Overview of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon with lights on and off to mark Earth Hour 2010.




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A before-and-after view of the Las Vegas Strip seen during Earth Hour from Mix at THEhotel at Mandalay Bay March 27, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.



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Before and after views of Seattle's Pacific Science Center on Earth Day, March 27th, 2010.




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A pair of photos of Ion Orchard, one of the largest shopping malls on Orchard Road during Earth Hour in Singapore March 27, 2010.



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The National Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest", before and during Earth Hour in Beijing, China March 27, 2010.




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Moscow State University seen before and after the lights are turned off during the worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change in Moscow Saturday, March 27, 2010.





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The Sydney skyline is seen before and after the lights are switched off for Earth Hour on March 27, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. Earth hour this year aims to highlight everyone’s environmental footprint on the earth, encouraging individuals to reduce their impact on the planet and help reduce pollution and climate change.




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The hill of the Acropolis before and during Earth Hour in Athens, Greece on March 27, 2010.





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A before-and-during view of a square near the Bundaran Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia.





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The Forbidden City, seen before and during the Earth Hour 2010 power switch off on March 27, 2010 in Beijing, China.





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A view of Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during Earth Hour March 27, 2010.





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Malaysia's landmarks Petronas Twin Towers after and during Earth Hour in Kuala Lumpur on March 27, 2010. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad




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Lights switched off in Toronto's financial district, Ontario, Canada.





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The Capitol building in Atlanta, Georgia marking Earth Hour 2010.






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A general view of commercial buildings before and after turning off lights in Hong Kong's central district Saturday, March 27, 2010 to mark the annual Earth Hour.






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The Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway on March 27th, 2010.





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The Capitol building in Albany, New York, during Earth Hour 2010 on March 27th.





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Hiroshima Castle before and during Earth Hour in Hiroshima, Japan on March 27th, 2010. [




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The Empire State Building, in New York City, New York with lights on, then off in support of Earth Hour 2010.





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The brightly lit YAS Marina Hotel on Yas Island is dimmed during Earth Hour 2010 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.



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Romania's Parliament building before and during Earth Hour at 8:30pm in central Bucharest March 27, 2010.



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Table Mountain, above Capetown, South Africa, seen before and during Earth Hour 2010.





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The Forbidden City, seen before and during Earth Hour in Beijing, China on March 27, 2010.




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Buildings in the central business district before and after Earth Hour in Singapore March 27, 2010.




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The Mohammed Ali mosque at the Salaheddine Citadel before and during Earth Hour in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on March 27, 2010.

An intersting concept of mobile cellphone was developed by designer Sam James Chu. If you’re tired to type a message or to search for the caller’s name in your phone this phone is for you. This interactive cellphone Mimeo is a pen by itself. Just write down the person’s name or phone number at the hand and then press the call button to start the conversation. Such solution greatly saves the time needed for typing. Maximum comfortable navigation through the menus provided by a touch OLED-display. Besides it have very stylish look and many variations of design. One thing is unknown for me. Using keyboard during many years I forgot how to write understandable. Will this cellphone detect my doodles?

please give your suggestions and comments

You walk into an office. You’re greeted by a friendly receptionist who tells you to take a seat.
“Person X will be right with you,” they say. You sit down and scan your surroundings.
You see some plants, some awards, a few industry-related magazines, maybe today’s paper.
End scene.

You walk into the HP headquarters in Palo Alto. Before you even approach the desk you notice 20+ massive flat screen panels at least 60 feet long.
You look at the desk, now back to the screen, now back at the desk, now back to the screen!

Look down, back up! Where are you? You’re in lobby of the HP headquarters staring at a screen.
Look again! The screens are now fiberglass. Anything is possible when Tronic is involved.

THE HP MANIFOLD BY TRONIC

The Challenge
Create a large-scale sculpture and video installation that ‘transcends technology and creates an experience that embraces the new’.

The Result
A permanent installation designed by Vivian Rosenthal and Jessi Seppi of Tronic. 60 feet long, with RFP (reinforced fiberglass) shell derived from CNC milling techniques that bridges the divide between the virtual and the actual.


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The Spiel
The combination of sculpture and animation in the piece - one side reflects today’s architectural language, while the other is a syncopated video wall - allows visitors’ perceptions to change as a function of time, use and other external influences, exemplifying Tronic’s ability to create abstract, trans-disciplinary works that filter the spirit of our time.

Do you have a room in your place with no windows?
Or perhaps you have a window with a lovely view of a concrete wall or neon sign?
Maybe you’re just plain tired of that framed motivational poster talking about Courage.

Well maybe it’s time to muster the courage to do something about it! Introducing Virtual Windows by Winscape. Now you can look out to the Golden Gate Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, or even explore the ocean! Check out the video below and we’ll reconnect with more extensive details afterward. See ya!





WINSCAPE VIRTUAL WINDOWS TOOLKIT

- Custom Winscape software with configurable screen parameters
- Two HD plasma displays for great contrast and wide viewing angles
- Video playback resolution of 1920×1080 with sound
- Still-image resolution of 4096×4096
- Fully embedded in the wall for aesthetics and silent operation
- Tracking of one person in the room for proper perspective presentation
- Scheduled on/off
- iPhone and web control of sleep/wake/scene selection

As a demo version this is pretty slick. Simulating a true window view is incredibly challenging as the screen needs to recognize where you are looking and adjust the scene accordingly (side to side, up and down). A fully-commercial version would require a more polished version of the hacked Wii-mote and giant sensor necklace (which was awesomely demonstrated by the baby in the video). Regardless, the idea is fantastic and presents a viable solution to homeowners wanting to spruce up their basement or replace that boring, static picture frame.

TRACKING A VIEWER

- The originator of the hacked wii-mote for tracking and other purposes is Johnny Chung Lee
- The tracking of multiple IR points is built into the Wiimote firmware. The Wiimote has a fairly well understood interface via Bluetooth thanks to the reverse engineering efforts by the internet community of enthusiasts like Johnny Chung Lee
- As a test version this option is relatively inexpensive. However, the Wiimote results are not very accurate and this impedes the illusion being presented to the viewer (thus a slicker option would be needed for a retail version)
- Winscape created a head tracking class in an OS X application that performs sanity checking on the data retrieved from the Wiimote. If the X,Y,Z data was outside of the pre-configured bounds of the room, the data would be clipped.
- Since Z data (distance to the IR points) is calculated based on the distance between X,Y data of two points, the Z data is pretty noisy. Winscape added a simple temporal filter to smooth out the Z data.
- The circuit to the left simulates a Wii sensor bar. Two clusters of IR LED emitters spread out the IR light via nine IR LEDs so that the “bar” is visible to the Wiimote from just about any normal orientation of the viewer
- A switch and red LED indicate whether the circuit is powered or not. This board hangs from the viewer’s neck like a necklace

THE DISPLAY: OPENGL AND QUICKTIME

- To display an HD video onto two different screens, one can share the Quicktime context with the OpenGL contexts so that they would all have access to the frames at the same time. This works out great and uses hardware acceleration as much as possible
- The user’s head location (provided by IR via the Wiimote) is used to calculate a proper viewing frustum in OpenGL. Since the view vector is non-orthogonal to the image plane, Winscape had to do some extra work in OpenGL. It’s just like rendering the wall of a CAVE.
- The OS X application’s preferences panel allows the user to specify the physical layout of the displays in relation to the tracker origin (Wiimote) in a table format. This way, any gaps between the displays are automatically calculated out of the rendered views and the tracking data is now in relation to the displays
- The video card in the Mac Pro supports OpenGL textures up to 4096×4096. This is great for high-res still photos, but as far as I can tell, there’s no hope for sending 4K video over the bus in real-time

THE REMOTE: IPHONE APPLICATION

- Winscape Remote is available from the iTunes App Store. This remote allows you to wake and sleep your Winscape via your WiFi network. It also allows you to advance to the next scene or select which scene you’d like to display
- All functions except Wake use your Winscape’s web server feature to control the Winscape
- The wake feature issues a Wake-On-LAN magic ethernet packet to wake up your Winscape. you can also set your Winscape to wake and sleep at pre-set times during the day

Still interested in knowing more? Feel free to check out this time-lapse ‘Making-of’ video below. Maximum respect to Winscape for the idea and build. I love seeing DIY projects like this come to life! I hope one day we see a retail version of this concept

In Western culture, the finger, also known as the middle finger, the highway salute, the bird, or to flip someone off, is an obscene hand gesture, often meaning the phrase “f**k you” or “up yours.” It is performed by showing the back of the hand, extending the middle finger of the hand upwards while bending the other fingers down into the palm. In Iraq, the middle finger gesture is used as a sign of respect.
These fingers are really creative, not rude…

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