John Underkoffler is the CEO of Oblong Industries, and he is perhaps best known as the science advisor for the landmark sci-fi film Minority Report. Long before the body suit of Ready Player One, Underkoffler helped envision Minority Report’s scene where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gesture controls to manipulate a transparent computer. He talked about the creation of that experience and what comes next at our recent GamesBeat Summit event. To bring that vision to reality, he founded Oblong Industries in 2006, and launched Mezzanine for enterprise collaborators in 2012. Oblong’s technological and design trajectories build on 15 years of foundational work at the MIT Media Lab, where Underkoffler was responsible for innovations in real-time computer graphics systems, optical and electronic holography, large-scale visualization techniques, and the I/O Bulb and Luminous Room systems. Above: John Underkoffler hopes gaming will lead … [Read more...] about ‘Minority Report’ adviser John Underkoffler ponders the user interfaces of the future
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Psensor – A Graphical Hardware Temperature Monitoring Tool for Linux
Psensor is a GTK+ (Widget Toolkit for creating Graphical User Interface) based application software. It is one the simplest application to monitor hardware temperature and plot Real Time graph from the obtained data for quick review. Psensor – Linux Hardware Temperature Monitoring Features of Psensor Show Temperature of motherboard, CPU, GPU (Nvidia), Hard Disk Drives. Show CPU fan speed. Psensor is capable of showing remote server Temperature and Fan Speed. Show CPU usages, as well. Infact Psensor will detect any supported Hardware and report the Temperature as text and over graph, automatically. All the temperatures are plotted in one graph. Alarms and Alerts ensures you don’t miss a critical System Hardware Temperature and Fan Speed related issues. Easy to Configure. Easy to use. Dependencies lm-sensor and hddtemp: : Psensor depends upon these two packages to get the reports about temperature and fan speed. psensor-server : It is an optional package, which is required … [Read more...] about Psensor – A Graphical Hardware Temperature Monitoring Tool for Linux
YouTube-DL GUI 0.4 Ships With New User Interface, More [PPA]
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Tweet After two years since the previous version, a new YouTube-DL GUI (YouTube-DLG) version was made available for download recently. The new 0.4 version ships with a a new user interface, easier format and save path selection and more. YouTube-DL GUI is, like its name suggests, a graphical user interface for the powerful command line tool youtube-dl, available for Linux and Windows. In case you're not familiar with youtube-dl, this is a popular tool that allows downloading videos from YouTube and around 1000 other websites. YouTube-DL GUI features include: options to select the video and audio format; post-processing options such as: extract audio from video file, embed thumbnail in audio file, add metadata, select audio quality; can embed subtitles into the video file (mp4 only); configurable filename format for the downloaded audio/video file; supports authentication; allows using a proxy; can specify user agent and referrer; supports passing extra youtube-dl command line … [Read more...] about YouTube-DL GUI 0.4 Ships With New User Interface, More [PPA]
Monitor Linux CPU temperature, frequency, power in a graphical way
S-tui is a free and open source terminal UI for monitoring your computer. s-tui allows to monitor CPU temperature, frequency, power and utilization in a graphical way from the terminal. It is written in Python and need root permission to use the s-tui. It is useful for: Watch your CPU temperature/utilization/frequency/power See performance dips caused by thermal throttling No need to use X-server. Perfect for headless usage including Raspberry PI Let us see how to install and use s-tui on a Linux based system. Step 1 – Install pip Type the following command to install pip – a package management for Python using apt command/apt-get command:$ sudo apt install python-pip stress Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: binutils build-essential cpp cpp-5 dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-5 gcc gcc-5 libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libasan2 … [Read more...] about Monitor Linux CPU temperature, frequency, power in a graphical way
Apple iPhone Patent Looks a Lot Like Google Latitude [PIC]
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By Pete Cashmore2010-01-02 21:20:42 UTC Apple has filed a patent for the sharing of location-based data between devices and plotting your friends' location on a map. The patent application also appears to (yet again) show a front-facing camera on the iPhone, increasing speculation that this feature will be added. Location-sharing is a major trend for 2010, with Foursquare, Gowalla and others looking to be the hot tickets in the startup realm. Meanwhile, Google Latitude was rejected from the App Store by Apple, and only works on the iPhone as a web app. That's fueling speculation from 9 to 5 Mac that Apple plans to keep Google at bay long enough to launch its own location-sharing service. The patent reads: "Location Sharing: Abstract - Geographic location data is sent from a first device to a second device with a modified message to signal the presence of geographic location data associated with the message. The message can include (or attach) the geographic location data or file, … [Read more...] about Apple iPhone Patent Looks a Lot Like Google Latitude [PIC]