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Saturday, October 19, 2013

castAR Makes the World Your 3D Playground

Get in on the ground floor as we look at the most exciting crowdfunded tech projects out there right now. This week: Technical Illusions' castAR is a 3D, holographically projecting generator that lets you position objects in virtual space. Key add-ons include a magic wand, which acts as a controller and is also tracked; and an RFID grid that underlies the system's reflective surface.

Do you remember the scene in an early Star Wars movie where R2-D2 and Chewbacca played a holographically generated, Jedi 3D board game while killing time in their light freighter? Full-color, three-dimensional game pieces were projected onto the board. Chewbacca wasn't a particularly good loser, and R2-DR2 blipped and beeped a lot.

Well, a few decades later, we may be about to see a projected augmented reality system -- for real. Kickstarter project castAR is a 3D, holographically projecting generator that lets you position objects in virtual space. Applications include gaming.

How it Works

A pair of glasses are equipped with two projectors, one over each eye. The projectors create a 3D view onto a highly reflective surface.

A tracking camera, installed in the glasses, picks up identification markers embedded on the reflective surface.

The reflective surface is designed to reduce scattering of light, enabling multiple players to see the projections, and the camera lets software track the player's head in relation to the physical scene. Software then portrays the projected scene.

The Add-ons

Key add-ons to castAR include a magic wand, which acts as a controller and is also tracked; a radio-frequency identification, or RFID, grid that underlies the reflective surface, along with RFID bases that can be attached to existing miniature game pieces; and a non-projection virtual reality, or VR, and non-projection augmented reality, or AR, clip-on glasses attachment.

The difference between AR and VR is that AR includes a view of the real world too, not just a totally fabricated virtual world, as is the case with VR.

Technical Details

The creator reckons that the glasses will ultimately weigh less than 100 grams and will fit over prescription glasses if necessary. The in-glasses camera detects movements to the sub-millimeter and only processes the image and analyzes it, sending results to the PC, thus reducing processor requirements for the PC.

One version of the optional RFID existing miniature bases can track and provide two-way communication for miniature electronics, like future-developed motors.

The Numbers

Technical Illusions currently has roughly 1,500 backers for castAR who are contributing more than US$350,000 of a $400,000 goal. The funding period ends on Nov. 14.

A contribution of $189 gets you the starter package, including the glasses and a one-meter by one-meter reflective surface. A $395 contribution gets you a two-player gaming set-up, with two magic wands and the larger one-meter by two-meter surface.

The estimated shipping date is September 2014.

The Upsides

From a crowdfunding, jump-in perspective, we like the fact that this potential product is self-contained and not dependent on other technology becoming ready. As a counter-example, the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset -- thus far only available to developers -- is also spurring crowdsourced add-ons, like the Transporter3D telepresence add-on.

castAR could be a more tangible project to get involved in.

Undoubtedly this genre of gaming device -- the immersive virtual and augmented environment -- is just waiting to explode onto the gaming market.

We think that it's going to be a question of who can combat latency, required-processing power, physical size and weight issues, and VR-induced nausea.

AR, which includes the physical world, has the advantage that it's less likely to cause seasickness-like nausea, a common side-effect with all-immersing VR that's created by the body and brain getting discombobulated.

castAR, in its native form, is a projected form of AR that may well get the combination of real-world and virtual correctly mixed.

The Downsides

This is a rapidly developing area and a number of devices may come to market at the roughly same time. They include VR goggles a la Oculus Rift; retina projectors that don't use screens at all; elaborate telepresence 2D and 3D processors for VR goggles; and this, the castAR holographic projector.

It will be the gamers who decide who wins this battle for the next generation of game interfaces.

Patrick Nelson has been a professional writer since 1992. He was editor and publisher of the music industry trade publication Producer Report and has written for a number of technology blogs. Nelson studied design at Hornsey Art School and wrote the cult-classic novel Sprawlism. His introduction to technology was as a nomadic talent scout in the eighties, where regular scrabbling around under hotel room beds was necessary to connect modems with alligator clips to hotel telephone wiring to get a fax out. He tasted down and dirty technology, and never looked back.

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AT&T launches one-day tablet data pass, aims to bring internet connectivity to more vehicles

AT&T senior vice president Chris Penrose announced a new $5 day pass for data at the GigaOm Mobilize conference in San Francisco today, with hopes that it'll compete against expensive hotel WiFi for frequent travelers. The day pass is limited to just 250MB of data however. You can also opt for a $25 ...

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Friday, October 18, 2013

Clark Gregg taps the action and humor of 'SHIELD'

NEW YORK (AP) — Like the character he plays, Clark Gregg has worked his way up the career ladder.

Five years ago, he played Agent Phil Coulson for the first time as a small role in the Robert Downey Jr. romp "Iron Man."

Now, after gaining an ever-higher profile as Coulson in subsequent projects including last year's mega-hit "The Avengers," Gregg has broken out as the star of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," the new acronymic sci-fi thriller (airing on ABC Tuesdays at 8 p.m. EDT), which finds Coulson leading a hand-picked band of agents on their extra-special missions.

Gregg's own mission: to savor his spot as No. 1 on the "Marvel's Agents" call sheet after years of diverse, solid and often acclaimed work that, nonetheless, fell short of making him a household name.

Gregg, 51, has earned his new prominence. As Coulson, he projects a mild demeanor (except when he doesn't) and a boyish smile (except when he takes dead-aim with his weapon or busts a bad guy in the chops). He's a tangy blend of milquetoast and steel.

And he looks good, though not too good, in his habitual company-man business suit.

"Coulson never takes his suit off," said executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen, speaking from Los Angeles, "whether he's on the beach, in the jungle ..."

"But at the risk of spoilers," stepped in fellow exec producer Jed Whedon, "you will see him in a future episode — sans tie!"

Agent Coulson is also a master of the dry quip, courtesy of Gregg.

"No matter what the line, Clark always makes it sound so classy and cool," said Tancharoen.

"The show doesn't take itself too seriously," Gregg notes gratefully during a recent chat in New York, "except in the moments when it needs to. The rest of the time it has a real sense of humor. 'I'm going to Taser you and watch "Supernanny" while you drool into the carpet': That's just not the kind of line I've gotten playing an agent in something else," like, for instance, "The West Wing," where he had a recurring role as, yes, an FBI special agent.

It should come as no surprise that Gregg has a gift for comedy. From 2006 to 2010 he played the mild-mannered but flighty ex-husband of Julia Louis-Dreyfus on her CBS sitcom, "The New Adventures of Old Christine."

Now he gets to lead a team of sexy operatives from the (wait for it) Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division who investigate the extra-normal and superhuman people infesting their futuristic world.

Like "The Avengers," ''Marvel's Agents" boasts a comic-book soul and the creative mojo of Joss (brother of Jed) Whedon. Rounding out its cast are Brett Dalton, Ming-Na Wen, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge and Chloe Bennet as Coulson's team.

"Coulson loves his job," says Gregg. "He's jaded, he's seen too much, but he can really geek out. You could imagine him doing selfies with crazy alien corpses! I'm making that up, but he's WAY into what he does."

So is Gregg.

"This show depicts a world that I loved as a kid," says Gregg, whose comic-book faves were Iron Fist, a Kung Fu superhero, and Adam Warlock, an artificial human built by scientists. "This show has given me a great chance to take my 13-year-old self to work with me every day."

Gregg has covered a great distance to get there. He studied drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy were his teachers.

He later joined them to form New York's respected Atlantic Theater Company. He has written screenplays, including the 2000 Harrison Ford fright drama "What Lies Beneath." He has directed two films from his own screenplays, with his dark comedy "Trust Me" set for release next year.

Along the way, Gregg met actress Jennifer Grey.

"The universe threw us at each other a number of times," he says with a laugh, "but all our attempts at flirting nearly ended up in fistfights. Then, after four years of that, finally something clicked."

They wed in 2001.

When he first took on the role of Coulson, Gregg saw comics-bred cinema as a breed apart from the dramatic work he had done.

"I had worked with Mamet, Macy, ('West Wing' mastermind Aaron) Sorkin! I thought this would be different, that it would be slumming in a pop-culture world."

He now eschews such snobbery.

"When I see the connection that this kind of project has made with people on a global level, I realize that's what I got into acting for," he says. "I don't think there's a higher, more highbrow goal to hope for. After all, Shakespeare wasn't doing work for the queen, he was writing for a bunch of people chewing on disgusting sausages and talking back to the stage."

Gregg laughs and effects an apologetic air. "I don't mean to retroactively trash the sausage vendors of Elizabethan England!" he says. "I just destroyed their Yelp rating."

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EDITOR'S NOTE — Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at fmoore@ap.org and at http://www.twitter.com/tvfrazier .

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Social Shopping Startup Shopcade Bags $4M To Fuel Mobile Growth & A Big Data Play

Social shopping and deals-focused startup Shopcade, which launched out of the U.K. in November 2011, has raised £2.5 million (circa $4 million) to accelerate its growth on mobile. Investors in the funding round include Pascal Cagni, formerly head of Apple’s European business from 2000 to 2012, and Michel Combes, CEO of telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent and ex-CEO of Vodafone Europe.

First order of business for Shopcade’s mobile push: expanding its app portfolio. Shopcade doesn’t currently have an Android app — but will be launching one next month, along with a refreshed-for-iOS-7 iOS app.

Shopcade’s ecommerce platform hosts products from more than 16,000 retailers and over 150,000 brands — with a focus on fashion, clothes and accessories but also incorporating other product categories such as books, media and electronics.

Its primary target is young females but it isn’t excluding men either…

The current Shopcade app lets users keep tabs on items they want to buy, informing them when something on their list goes on sale. It also pushes out personalised recommendations, and lets users follow each other to style stalk trendsetters (aka other users whose style they dig). Users can add items to their Shopcade list from any website, not just the items Shopcade hosts.

Last year the startup was focused on adding more game mechanics to its offering to ramp up user engagement — by, for instance, generating the Trendsetter score for each user to rank themselves against their peers. It also introduced a system of perks to reward its most influential shoppers.

This year it’s been focused on expanding its deals segment, introducing deals that are specifically tied to items users have added to their wish lists. Another focus has been on outreach: in June it launched a widget targeting fashion bloggers and publishers, allowing them to embed a showcase of product picks — or auto-populated products related to page contents — in a grid or carousel.

It’s also pushed into celebrity tie-ups, by allowing its users to have the chance to style a celebrity look under its ‘Stylist for a Day’ campaign.

Going forward, Shopcade evidently sees big data as its bread and butter, based on the intel it’s continually gathering about fashion-focused shoppers’ likes (and by implication dislikes) — and then selling that ‘trend spotting’ business intelligence back to large retailers so they can decide what to stock on their shelves.

Shopcade’s expansion into widgets helps with that, allowing it to cosy up to other fashion-focused communities. Mobile is another key data point to this big data play, furnishing Shopcade with more up-to-the-minute data on what its users are after.

As an example of the kind of trends it’s apparently able to call, Evan Adelman, Shopcade CTO, said funny pet costumes started to trend on the platform ahead of Halloween — and crucially ahead of marketing spending for Halloween — adding that the category is now highlighted on Amazon.com.

Commenting on the funding round in a statement, Pascal Cagni added: ”By identifying the game-changing opportunities in mobile commerce, Shopcade is set to become the leading mobile shopping platform targeting fashionable young females audience.”

Prior angel investors in Shopcade include Daniel Bernard, former CEO of European retailer Carrefour; Ian Livingston, co-founder of Eidos Games; and Lord John Birt, former director general of the BBC.

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Vaccine confers long-term protection against cholera

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First time an oral cholera vaccine is proven to provide sustained protection for five years against cholera

A clinical study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases shows for the first time that an oral cholera vaccine (ShancholTM) provides sustained protection against cholera in humans for up to five years. The study showed the vaccine had a protective efficacy of 65% over a five-year period. The landmark study was a collaboration between scientists from the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) an international organization based in Seoul, and the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, (NICED), an institute under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) of India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Cholera is a potentially deadly infectious disease that causes profuse, dehydrating diarrhea in children and adults. It is spread through ingestion of contaminated water or food and is commonly found in developing countries that have limited access to clean water and sanitation. There are about 2.8 million cases and 91,000 deaths each year from cholera, mostly in Africa and South Asia.

The oral cholera vaccine (OCV) contains strains of killed cholera bacteria that have been previously shown to be safe in humans and is administered through a two-dose regimen. The vaccine was specifically developed for use in developing countries through a public-private partnership led by IVI with support from the Republic of Korea, Sweden, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The partnership involved Shantha Biotechnics (part of the Sanofi group) based in Hyderabad, India; VaBiotech, a state-owned vaccine manufacturer located in Hanoi, Vietnam; and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The vaccine, which is produced by Shantha Biotechnics in India and licensed as Shanchol, was prequalified by the World Health Organization (WHO) in September 2011.

A Phase III clinical trial was jointly conducted by IVI and NICED in Kolkata, India in 2006 to assess the efficacy of the vaccine. More than 30,000 volunteers from one year old and up were enrolled in the study. A placebo group with a similar number of volunteers was also included.

Previous results from this study had shown that the vaccine provided 66% protection over a three-year period, and the new result shows that such protection is sustained for two additional years. Since vaccine protection does not wane over time, the study has important practical implications in terms of vaccination cost and vaccination strategies in developing countries.

"The study results suggest that this vaccine will protect persons at risk of severe cholera for five years," said Dr. Thomas F. Wierzba, Deputy Director General of Vaccine Development & Delivery at IVI and co-author of the study. "With protection sustained for five years, we will be able to provide greater benefits to the poor at reduced costs."

Furthermore, the study confirms the use of the vaccine as a powerful and effective tool to prevent and control cholera. "The vaccine is safe, easy to administer, cost effective, and provides protection for up to five years," said Dr. Christian Loucq, IVI's Director General. "The use of the vaccine, combined with other control measures, will make it more feasible for developing countries afflicted by cholera to control a disease that plagues millions of people every year."

The vaccine has already been used to combat outbreaks in Haiti and Guinea, and has been deployed for large-scale use in Bangladesh and Odisha state, India.

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About IVI

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) is the world's only international organization devoted exclusively to developing and introducing new and improved vaccines to protect the world's poorest people, especially children in developing countries. Established in 1997, IVI operates as an independent international organization under a treaty signed by 35 countries and the World Health Organization. The Institute conducts research in more than 20 countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America on vaccines against enteric and diarrheal infections, Japanese encephalitis, and dengue fever, and develops new and improved vaccines at its headquarters in Seoul, Republic of Korea. For more information, please visit http://www.ivi.int.

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Economists: Shutdown Will Shave Half-Percent From Quarterly GDP

The government shutdown has taken a toll on the nation's economy and despite a deal that sidesteps a debt default and restarts the government (at least for a few months), growth forecasts for the last quarter of the year are being scaled back.

Economist Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics has shaved his gross domestic product forecast from a 2.6 percent annualized rate to 2.1 percent for the last three months of the calendar year.

"If the Treasury fails to make payments to Social Security recipients and Medicare providers, to bondholders, whoever that may be, it would clearly undermine [investor] confidence and would lay the foundation for the economy going back into recession," Zandi says. "And if this would extend for any length of time, into November, I think the recession we would see would be severe, on par with the Great Recession, the downturn we just went through."

Standard & Poor's says the 16-day partial shutdown cost U.S. taxpayers $24 billion. It reduced its projected fourth-quarter growth rate from 3 percent to 2.4 percent.

The New York Times says:

"Even with the shutdown of the United States government and the threat of a default coming to an end, the cost of Congress's gridlock has already run well into the billions, economists estimate. And the total will continue to grow even after the shutdown ends, partly because of uncertainty about whether lawmakers might reach another deadlock early next year.

"A complete accounting will take months once the government reopens and the Treasury resumes adding to the country's debt. But economists said that the intransigence of House Republicans would take a bite out of fourth-quarter growth, which will affect employment, business earnings and borrowing costs. The ripple from Washington will be felt around the globe."

And The Washington Post writes:

"[The] the biggest failure of the agreement, analysts say, is that it keeps the government operating for only a few months, with a new need to fund agencies and raise the debt ceiling coming in the first five weeks of 2014.

"As a result, economists say, consumers and businesses are likely to hold back on spending and investment during the important holiday season, knowing that a similarly economy-shaking political showdown might be right around the corner.

" 'If people are afraid that the government policy brinkmanship will resurface again, and with it the risk of another shutdown or worse, they'll remain afraid to open up their checkbooks,' Standard & Poor's U.S. chief economist Beth Ann Bovino said in an analysis. 'That points to another Humbug holiday season.' "

In the Federal Reserve's monthly Beige Book report, released Wednesday, the central bank cited fears that the shutdown would have an impact on consumer and business confidence.

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'White Collar': Tim DeKay Previews Neal/Peter Hardships, Big Changes and Season 5

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Are Peter and Neal in jeopardy?

"We've taken our characters, Peter and Neal (Matt Bomer), and did a bit of a role reversal, where we open with Peter in an orange jumpsuit and Neal's in the suit and tie," star Tim DeKay tells The Hollywood Reporter of the premiere. "This is when some of the big issues start to get addressed."

With Neal doing anything and everything he possibly can to get Peter out of jail for taking the fall for his father's crime (the murder of a high-powered senator), Neal's criminal history factors into how he solves the problem. "How Peter gets out of prison catapults us into the rest of the season," DeKay hints.

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In a chat with THR, the veteran actor previews the new season, including Neal's new handler, Peter's new position and much more.

How does Neal's presumably unethical approach in getting Peter out of jail complicate matters?

It's certainly going to be a spoiler. What I can say is this, no matter what Neal does, Peter will eventually find out about it. So if Neal makes a deal with the devil to get Peter out of jail, eventually Peter will find out about that deal. The two with them are faced with what to do with that once the information is out.

What was it like having Peter in an orange jumpsuit?

On a personal note, I was happy to wear that orange jumpsuit because it meant that I didn't have to button up my shirt and wear the 20th tie for the day so I welcomed it. As Peter says, "The irony of this is not lost on me." It's really interesting to see Peter on that side and Neal on the other. I wish we had more time and story-wise I would've liked to have continued to examine that for Peter being behind bars but you can't solve too many crimes or have too many brainstorming sessions during visitation. (Laughs.)

Will the trust issues be even more significant this season?

The trust issues for Neal and Peter are even bigger this year and what eventually happens is that these two need to have a face to face and have a cathartic scene with where they stand with each other. We've never seen these guys talk about how they feel about each other or talk about their relationship but this season that comes out.

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Peter may also be working his way to Washington, D.C.

Peter takes on the new role of ASAC, which is the assistant special agent in charge [of White Collar division]. He has to give Neal a new handler. Certainly Peter has mixed emotions about that because no matter how much they trust or distrust each other, these two guys have a great time solving cases. They both love the chase and they're good friends. It becomes very complicated. Peter realizes that his career could go a certain way and that doesn't include Neal. Peter has to decide how he wants to play that out.

Is that an internal dilemma for Peter with how far he wants to go for his career trajectory?

That becomes an internal dilemma and it becomes a dilemma for Elizabeth and Peter as well because it means big changes for the Burkes. It means maybe a new place to live. But once Peter realizes what that means to his life, what he likes about his job now, it gives him a lot of conflict.

How does Neal adjust to having a new handler? How differently does FBI Agent David Siegel (Warren Kole) operate than Peter?

Neal adjusts fairly well to the new handler because he has a rather large agenda on his plate that he has to take care with his deal with the devil. Neal also, at first, doesn't like having a new handler. He wishes things were back to Peter and Neal. I think there's a resentment Neal has towards Peter, to a certain degree, because he broke up the partnership for a certain time. All of this, you have to remember, this partnership between Peter and Neal is key. It's critical and the crux of the show. We won't ever stray too far from that.

What was it like having Mark Sheppard, who was last seen in the pilot that aired in 2009, back in the fray as Curtis Hagen?

It was a joy to have him back. It allowed Matt and I a chance to realize how far we've come from the pilot. It was lovely to have him back and he certainly knows the essence of the show and was able to capture that in a wonderfully villainous way.

Which character changes the most or faces the most challenges this season?

I can only speak for Peter but I believe Peter is faced with the most difficult challenge he's ever had this season. Circumstances put him in quite a quandary and many of his moral and ethical points of view are put into question. More so than previous seasons.

Can you talk about the episode that you directed?

I directed the penultimate episode. As you know Marsha Thomason was away having a baby. The writers said that Diana's pregnant as well, so the episode I directed was the one where Diana came back. We were able to have scenes with the baby. On the day we had the baby, we had two sets of twins -- we were covering our bases -- and I have to say all four babies were fantastic. (Laughs.) Marsha has the golden touch with babies.

White Collar premieres Oct. 17 at 9 p.m. on USA Network.

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New York Subway Backpack Opens To Reveal an Eerily Empty Platform

If there's one thing you can count on in a large crowded city like New York, it's that there's always someone waiting on the subway platform. So while we love this gorgeous $48 backpack from Mojo featuring a subway door screen print that actually opens to reveal a platform, we're left a little unsettled by the lack of passengers waiting to cram on.