Q&A: Riya’s Munjal Shah [http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=14275] (CEO of Riya.com [http://www.riya.com] – face recognition based tagging and photo search service), on Red Herring > Digital clothing and digital items. Already in Korea people are spending $150 million purchasing digital…
Riya – Photo Search [http://www.riya.com/] introduces a face recognition technology that automatically tags people in photos, enabling easy & efficient photo search in albums or the web. Since not all photos are people-centric, I wonder if it could as well recognize and tag objects, locations and landscape in…
Only a few hours before John Lennon’s grisly murder on Dec. 8, 1980, photographer Annie Leibovitz captured the cool Beatle and his icy wife, Yoko Ono, in an oddly seductive pose. Yesterday, the American Society of Magazine Editors named it the greatest magazine cover [http://www.news24.com/News24/…
Sprol [http://www.sprol.com/?page_id=196] shows the visual macroscopic effects of the decisions and behavior of our society, through a virtual trip to damaged landscapes and polluted sites.…
Gizmodo’s review verdict on the Nokia N90 [http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/nokia-n90-review-verdict-its-hawt-122653.php] is that it’s hot! As I wrote about mobile movies [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/08/04/mobile-movies/] a few days back, N90 is the first mobile phone to record video at…
The Kingfisher Swimsuit Special Calendar [http://www.kingfishercalendar.com/KF2005/gallery.asp] 2005 features some of the hottest Indian models.…
Digital Picture Recovery [http://winutils.net/digital_picture.html] will recover lost, deleted and formatted digital pictures from media such as flash cards, memory sticks etc. [Thanks to Scott Hanselman [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,64f02df5-01b0-4fd9-82e4-56cbac349f7a.aspx] for sharing]…
[https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2005/08/dactylfractal107.jpg] A thoughtful and aesthetic look at natural recursion! It’s called Dactyl Fractal [http://zapatopi.net/themes/], conceptualized by Zapato [http://zapatopi.net/]. Each time I look at the infinite-iteration Flash version [http://zapatopi.net/themes/dactylfractalzoom.html], I can’…