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Navigation Device Gives Directions, Teaches English

Navigation Device Gives Directions, Teaches English

This week, South Korea saw the launch of Fine Digital’s FineDrive IQ, a GPS navigation device that provides an English Language trainer constructed on voice recognition software- so commuters can bone up on their English while entrenched in their daily trek to the office.
Digital Multimedia Broadcast (DMB) television, traffic alerts and audio/video playback are included as well. Although this isn’t available outside of South Korea, one could surely see this being an effective tool in any country for those who travel internationally or have a curiosity or need to learn a new language.
[via Engadget]
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Adobe Experiments with Seemless Infinite Images

Adobe Experiments with Seemless Infinite Images

At the Adobe MAX conference in Milan earlier this month, an experimental project called Infinite Images. The project enables a unique navigation of a tagged photography database.  Drawing on the tagging system, a user can automatically create a seamless 3D world that spans an endless set of photos.  The navigation effect is similar to falling into an M. C. Escher drawing and the creator describes it as using “each image as a gateway to a photo realistic world.”  The examples used in the presentation seem to be most effective when dealing with simple images like wide landscapes or set tags [...]

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