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Build on Your Current Skills to Transition into Mobile Technology

Michael Lang — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:59:22 +0000

All of us have talents, gifts and skills that we show on a daily basis. Would you believe me if I told you its possible for you to take the current skills, talents and gifts that you have, and your love for the iPhone, Droid X, Motorola Backflip and transition into a career in Mobile Technology? Check out the video below as Cat Miller from Dice TV shows you exactly how you can do just that:

Mario Armstrong's rant about the Pew Internet Project report suggesting the digital divide for minorities has closed

Michael Lang — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:08:11 +0000

As many of you know, the Pew Internet & American Life Project recently released another report (like they did last year with the same results, just some numbers changed) that shows that supposedly the digital divide for young blacks and hispanics has been closed thanks to the mobile device. Oh Really? We beg to differ here at Noire Digerati. While we love the reports that the folks at Pew Internet & American Life Project put out, we have a problem with their recent report, and so does our good friend Mario Armstrong! Check out his rant about the report after the break:

Spelman Spelbots Robocup Japan Open Movie

Michael Lang — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:31:46 +0000

You've heard of the ladies from the Spelman Spelbots Robotics team right?! Here is footage of the ladies from the Spelman Spelbots in competition in Japan where they tied in the championship match of the RoboCup Japan Open 2009 Osaka Standard Platform League Nao Humanoid Robot Soccer competition. Check out the video below:

3D World Created by Sony

Michael Lang — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:54:35 +0000

The peeps at Sony recently finished developing a short feature titled "3D World Created by Sony" featuring Buzz Hayes, Executive Stereoscopic 3D Producer for Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paul Anderson, Director of "Resident Evil Afterlife" as well as Mick Hocking & Simon Benson, key 3D players at Sony Computer Entertainment who talk about 3D gaming. Check out the video below:

HackNY Student Hackathon 2010

Michael Lang — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:30:10 +0000

Inspired by Yahoo Open Hack Day NYC event is a hack day for NYC students, and also NYC tech startups, intended to spread the spirit of hack, community and entrepreneurial spirit! Check out the video below:

Dice's Best Job Ever: What it's like to work for the hottest tech startup in the NYC?

Michael Lang — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:19:30 +0000

Dice's Best Job Ever is a showcase for the kind of amazing jobs that can be found on Dice.com, which is a career hub for tech insiders. In this episode of Dice's Best Job Ever, correspondent Anthony Carboni speaks with Anoop Ranganath, a Software Engineer at Foursquare about what it likes working at one of the hottest tech startups in the NYC. This is one of the best episodes yet! Check out the video below:

How technology was used in the Haiti crisis? Can the same be done to mitigate violence in urban centers?

Michael Lang — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:30:43 +0000

While the Haiti earthquake was no doubt devastating, many people aren't aware of how technology was used to connect family members, friends and just concerned people around the world to not only their relatives in some cases, but also to real-time visual data of the things going on post the Haiti earthquake. At the forefront was Ushahidi, a website that maps incidents of violence and peace efforts throughout the country based on reports submitted via the web and mobile phone. Could this platform be used to mitigate violence in urban centers? We're testing that theory right now in Chicago where we're based. We'll keep you posted.. in the mean time, check out this short video of how the Ushahidi technology was used in Haiti:

Apple Developer Connection - Smule

Michael Lang — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:33:49 +0000

This video is apart of the Apple Developer Connection where people talk about their innovative iPhone apps with Apple. In this video Dr. Ge Wang, professor at Stanford and Co-founder of Smule, talks about Smule and how he developed the app that turns the iPhone into a musical device. He even created an orchestra around it that performs live! This is just another example of the things that open up to you as a mobile app developer. Check out the video below:

DePaul University CDM Game Jam Design Challenge Documentary

Michael Lang — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:54:29 +0000

This video takes you behind the scene at the DePaul University College of Computing & Digital Media (CDM) Game Jam. Basically a competition where teams of two or more game designers get together and create a working video game in 24 hours and then a panel of game industry judges chooses a winner. This video also includes MIT/Flashpoint grad and Chicago based African-American game developer Justin Moore (we interviewed him last year). Check out the video below:

SixthSense Technology at MIT, the future of Gesture-Based Computing

Michael Lang — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:48:19 +0000

In a post a few months ago, we talked about how you can break into the tech by becoming a Human-Gesture Interface Designer. Multitouch is a growing area of technology (and it's here to stay!), especially with technologies such as the iPhone and iPad selling like crazy. The Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab continues to push the envelop of innovation in Gesture-Based Computing. the latest creation is called SixthSense, a wearable, gestural interface that augments our physical world with digital information, and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. The technology was developed by MIT grad student (and member of the Fluid Interfaces group) Pranav Mistry. Check out the video below: