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| The internet is changing how creatives distribute and monetize art and design work, blurring the line between creative professionals, hobbyists, and consumers. How will the creative process change as a result of this new phenomenon? Will the increase in creative marketplaces and social communities propel the industry forward or move it backward? |
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Cooliris is a free browser add-on that instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing online photos, videos, and other web content. Media content comes to life via a cinematic presentation that goes well beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. |
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Etchstar is an on-demand laser customization service. Etchstar sells custom iPods and custom laptop computers at the same prices as OEM’s, but with additional options for customization & personalization. Etchstar also customizes dog tags, metal business cards, Zunes, PC’s, Nintendo’s, skateboards and anything else you can dream up. |
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The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous surface. By moving and relating these objects, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies in a graspable flow-controlled programming language. |
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For the first time, budding 3D artists, architects, product designers and consumers of all skill levels can order their reasonably 3D designs as physical printed objects easily online. Whether you want to create a new utensil, the ultimate toy or wacky piece of art, with Shapeways you can Do-It-Yourself (DIY). |
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Studio GPU is a software developer focused on bringing to market real-time 3D workflow solutions that eliminate the long rendering times and lack of interactivity of traditional CPU based systems. Its GPU-based authoring tool, Mach StudioT, drastically accelerate the production of all types of 3D content. |
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| Gaming |
The face of gaming has changed. A once niche market, gaming has now affected the masses including artists, budding musicians, and fitness fiends. Simple controllers have been replaced with accelerometers, instruments, and head sets. Gaming is everywhere, in your social network and in your mobile phone, adding a playful yet engaging element to our everyday activities. |
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Atmosphir is a free platformer game / design tool hybrid for Mac or PC. Designers can create huge 3D interactive adventures, and then share them with an online community. You don't have to be an expert programmer - building levels is as simple as selecting blocks (such as a sand castle tower, fireball-breathing bird, or trap door) and snapping them onto a grid. With intuitive controls and low performance requirements, anyone can play, design, compete or collaborate.
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The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) is the visual arts center of the University of California, Berkeley. BAM/PFA presents Gas Zappers, a museum exhibition of Internet art. Gas Zappers is an interactive online “serious game” that tackles global warming. |
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Elo TouchSystems broad portfolio of touchscreen technologies, touchmonitors and touchcomputers are intended to meet the requirements of diverse applications, such as industrial, medical, POS, kiosks, retail, hospitality, transportation, and gaming. Elo has been recognized as the global brand leader in touch technology since inventing the touchscreen over 35 years ago. |
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Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Jose, CA, NeuroSky has developed cost-effective and "wearable" (dry) bio-sensor and signal processing technology specifically designed for end-use in the consumer market. NeuroSky's products offer opportunities for its exclusive partners and developers to create next generation applications in markets as diverse as consumer electronics, health and wellness, education and training, transportation, market research and others. For more information about NeuroSky, please access www.NeuroSky.com. |
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Shattered Reality Interactive (“SRI”) is a video game development company located in San Francisco, California, that creates next generation Massively Multiplayer Online (“MMO”) games by adopting an agile player directed game experience. The first game title to feature this new mode of development is Kaos War, a sci-fi world where players do battle as angels, demons and humans set in an alternate player driven universe. |
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| Social Media |
| The days of snail-mail are over. Social media has ushered in a new wave of disruptive communication, where users are constantly "connected," exchanging ideas and information through email, text messaging, web blogs, picture-sharing, wikis and podcasts. With social media, saying hello no longer requires the use of ink and paper. |
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Bojam is an online music collaboration service connecting musicians by giving them a platform to mix, record, and collaborate to produce original or popular music. Musicians of all levels create or discover mixes to contribute to and connect with compatible musicians worldwide. Bojam is open-source music and our goal is to revolutionize the music creation process by harnessing the skill, enthusiasm, and creativity of the music community.
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IQ Engines has developed a powerful, open-server platform that performs object recognition on images or videos in seconds. Our image search solution is used for mobile visual search and image search services. |
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Mozilla Labs is a virtual lab where people come together to create, experiment, and play with new Web innovations and technologies. We inspire and harness the intelligence, wisdom, and energy of the Mozilla community to imagine the future of the Web and then build it together. |
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Tiny Pictures offers a mobile application called Radar that lets you share pictures you snap on your camera phone with your friends and have conversations around those pictures. |
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RateItAll is a distributed consumer rating community where visitors can find and share opinions on virtually any topic. All of the site's content is available for syndication via widgets, RSS feeds, and APIs, and RateItAll members share in the advertising revenue associated with their reviews. |
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| Ubiquity |
| The ability to be everywhere at once is not just for the supernatural anymore. Today, our favorite media is "up in the cloud" and accessible from just about anywhere. Discover new music from your mobile phone. Get stock quotes from your alarm clock. Watch your local news in another time zone. This new standard of ubiquity is disruptive to content providers everywhere. |
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GazoPa is an image search engine by Hitachi that uses features from an image to search for and identify similar images. There are abundant quantities of images on the web, however many of these simply cannot be described by keywords, keywords are not sufficient as conditions for image searches. Since GazoPa uses image features such as a color or a shape to search other similar images, a vast range of images can be retrieved from the web.
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MobiTV, the first to bring live TV to mobile devices, delivers a compelling mobile media experience to more than 4 million subscribers worldwide. MobiTV is shaping the mobile media landscape with a passion for delivering a unique and dynamic consumer experience. Founded in 1999, MobiTV is a privately-held company based in Emeryville CA. |
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MINIWIZ specializes in renewable green power technology and sustainable rechargeable systems for handheld digital devices. MINIWIZ is dedicated to delivering a well-designed green product at an extremely affordable price, making hi-tech, Green power attractive and accessible to all. |
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Pandora (www.pandora.com) is a personalized Internet radio service, available anytime and anywhere on the PC, in the home and on mobile devices, including the Apple iPhone. |
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At Vertigo we're busy creating innovative and meaningful user experiences using Microsoft Surface, where users can manipulate digital content directly and intuitively through natural gestures, touch, and physical objects. |
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WildCharge, Inc. is revolutionizing the way mobile devices are charged -- using wire-free technology. The company licenses its power solution to OEMs, through its global Technology Partner Program. Wire-free products for cell phones, smartphones and game controllers will be commercially available in Q4-2008. |
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Yahoo! provides Internet services worldwide, and is best known for its web portal, search engine, directory, mail, news, and social media websites and services. The new Yahoo! oneConnect brings it all together - your people, your life, the ways you communicate - seamlessly, into the palm of your hand. |
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