Mogees is a project that uses microphones to turn any surface into an interactive board, which associates different gestures with different sounds. This means that desktop drummers could transform their finger taps and hand slaps into the sound of a marimba or xylophone.

Different surfaces and gestures can make different sounds.

Springwise have wrote an interesting article about a new video interview application. The website allows potential employers to interview candidates for potential employment. The service is called Ovia, the website is: http://www.oviahr.com/.

This is a quote from the website:
“OVIA is a video interviewing platform that makes your candidate filtering and selection process more efficient and personal. Recruitment is all about finding the right people, not just the right resumes. Use the power of competency based video selection to evaluate candidates faster and more effectively.”

The article is here: http://www.springwise.com/marketing_advertising/ovia/

Operating light bulbs from apps using wifi.

Google wallet has is been shown now by Google, making use of NFC technology to make paying by your mobile real easy. An example of how it can be used is here.

So will these technologies bring payments to the mobile and allow a cash and card less world? It depends how they catch on and a critical mass I suppose but it will be interesting to see how it takes off and if other players start pushing their versions.

An article on NPR about the Portal video game story.

Portgal became a video game sensation and now the new portal 2 hopes to grow on that success. The story stats with the game being created as a student project.

Listen to the story here:
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/19/135511250/portal-2-a-student-video-game-project-all-grown-up

How good is this

Here is a reality touchscreen that is 10 metres long! Take a look at the video below, it looks real good.

Behind the long screen are six cameras and 16 infrared lights. When you touch the screen, a small amount of infrared light is reflected back and the cameras sense the position and then translate that into coordinates on the surface. It is curved over 135 degrees, thereby creating an immersive environment.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/02/08/reality-touchscreen-is-10-meters-long-accepts-100-touch-inputs/

Jason Fried of 37 Signals talking about marketing by sharing.

PlayStation show off their new controller, PlayStation Move. It kind of is a clone of the Wii Controller but with a faster response times so we will have to see if its really that different when its released.

I love augmented reality and any opportunity to show off another use is always welcome. So now Lego have added augmented reality to the boxes of products and using an in-store exhibit to show off what the contents make. The video is below.