At the recent TED conference, Pattie Maes presented Sixth Sense, a wearable device that projects images on the users’ environment, opening some really cool possibilities for data interaction with real life objects. Lots of people are comparing it to Minority Report, but to me it more closely resembles the world described by Vernor Vinge [...]

Last night I was googling and checking out web sites about data visualization. Tons of really cool data visualization stuff out there that I’ll have to blog about in another post. But one of the most intriguing to me was the Web Trends mind map from Information Architects. I’ve seen this covered already on [...]

Another discipline of visual thinking that I think is really cool is scientific visualizations. I’m on the Apple RSS feed and that had a cool article about scientific visualizations being done at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The article is essentially a Mac promotion piece, but it has some interesting observations [...]