Almost touchless disassembly of iPad
What I like particularly about this and other TechRestore’s other disassemblies is the familiar royalty free music from iMovie that I’ve used in many other videos.
TechRestore are masters at creating geek porn.
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Microsoft meetup Toronto: Massive digital library management and zoom anything with Pivot and Seadragon
Microsoft hosted a networking event at the Drake Hotel in Toronto. The main goal of the event was to demonstrate new technologies from Live Labs.
The other goal was food … Microsoft is known to always have good food at their events. They certainly didn’t disappoint. Fresh sushi, gourmet grilled cheese, shrimp, and much more goodies.
I thought it mightbe more of a recruiting event. It didn’t feel like that at all. Though when I talked to one of the Microsoft staff and introduced myself as Ray, she said “you worked at Amazon right?”. That caught me off guard a bit, but perhaps they researched the attendees.
To be honest, I haven’t kept up with Microsoft technology lately. Since switching my main computer to a Mac and all the media hype surrounding Apple and Google, Microsoft has been a bit of an afterthought for me.
These two technologies actually encouraged me to boot up my dusty Windows 7 partition on my Macbook and try out Pivot and Seadragon. Well, Seadragon can run anywhere, but before the Silverlight version comes out, Pivot runs only on computers with Aero.
Back in my Amazon days, we put a lot of thought to digital asset management, but more about the mechanics and data models in the backend. Pivot provides a powerful interface to such a management system. It follows a similar browsing structure to my favorite plugin, Cooliris.
I walked away impressed, though empty-handed. I didn’t win the Xbox or Zunes they gave away.
Give the technologies a try. Here’s some additional information about the presenters
Jeff Weir, Pivot, Microsoft Live Labs
Combining a computer science and fine arts background, Jeff Weir is a member of the core design team at Microsoft Live Labs. He has worked extensively on Pivot, contributing to its interaction design, visual style, and the collections themselves. He also works more broadly within the lab User Experience team to create prototypes and additional immersive web experiences. Prior to Live Labs, Jeff helped design the user experience for Microsoft Codename Max. Before Microsoft, Jeff developed and designed web experiences at Mod7 in Vancouver and Barking Dog Studios in Guelph. In his spare time Jeff creates award winning interactive art projects.
Beatriz Díaz, Seadragon, Microsoft Live Labs
Beatriz Díaz Acosta is the Senior Test Lead for Live Labs Seadragon. She obtained her Master’s in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 2004 and joined Microsoft right after. She has worked in Microsoft Live ID authentication protocols for mobile devices and in Bing Core Relevance fighting web spam. She joined Live Labs in 2007 where she helped start the test team for Seadragon and Photosynth. Her team helps enable and inspire Microsoft partners and customers to adopt Seadragon philosophies and technology, like the DeepZoom feature in Silverlight, to create transformative user experiences. Her research interests include pattern recognition and computer vision.
