From eight-foot demo units to the Microsoft Surface to the iPhone, multitouch technology has experienced rapid miniaturization over the last two years. Now we go completely in the opposite direction, with the world’s largest multitouch wall. This tactile monster by Sensory Minds covers an astonishing 425 square meters. That’s around 6,000 times the size of your computer’s monitor.

A screen resolution of 34 megapixels created by 15 HD projectors makes for awesome images, while 30 directional speakers provide 3D aural immersion. If you’d like to see, hear, and touch it all for yourself, this baby’s installed at Nürburgring, a race track around the village of Nürburg, Germany.

(Via Information Aesthetics.)

Lusting for the speed of Chrome, but enjoying the convenience of Firefox’s central plugin repository? Soon you won’t have to choose. Developer builds of Google’s browser currently feature support for extensions, but those extensions live in unofficial repositories like ChromeExtensions.org and ChromePlugins.org. Now Google has opened its official Chrome extensions gallery to uploads from developers. More →

If the video promoting Google’s mobile search with movies  was rather inappropriate because it features three geek-looking Google engineers looking for a theater where New Moon is currently showing, wait till you see this new Microsoft video promoting Microsoft 7.  Microsoft’s video stars three babes known in the UK as Sugababes showing us how they use Windows 7 in their daily busy lives. Really? More →

The interactivity of new media allows levels of deeply personal engagement unimaginable in old media. In the case of one avid Japanese gamer, that engagement actually led to marriage.

…a man named Sal9000 married the love of his life. Her name is Nene Anegasaki, and she lives inside of a Nintendo DS video game called Love Plus. The wedding took place during a Make: Japan meet-up held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In attendance were a live audience, an MC, the bride’s virtual video game girlfriend — who made a speech — and a real human priest.

Don’t laugh, guys. If gaming rigs keep getting more and more powerful in accordance with Moore’s Law, someday videogame characters will attain humanlike artificial intelligence. By then, ever-improving Japanese gynoids could provide realistic bodies for such artificial intelligences.

Then they’d be able to nag you like only a real wife could.

(Via Lisa Katayama.)

Don’t you just hate when marketers tag you in some spammy promo picture on Facebook? Yeah, so do I. Ad agency Forsman & Bodenfors realized this, and found an interesting way to get around it for their client Ikea: get users to tag themselves in Ikea promo pictures. More →

Did you watch the video first before reading this post? I really don’t think that those three fellas would watch New Moon together.  Three geek-looking dudes checking out screening schedule of New Moon using a Google Android phone? It just doesn’t fit.

Anyway, just disregard the actors in the video and let’s take a look into what they were trying to demo. It’s actually the latest mobile version of Google’s search results for movies.

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If the big honking banner ads on your favorite sites suddenly get less annoying over the coming months, here’s why: Google is buying display advertising startup Teracent.

How is this different from Google’s purchase of display advertising stalwart DoubleClick? As is usually the case, Google buys companies for their technology more than anything else. Whereas DoubleClick provides the best display ad marketplace on the planet, Teracent provides new ways to target display advertising. More →

Even the best hardware features need support from services with decent traction. Otherwise, they just become useless decorations. Some Nokia smartphones come with a front-facing camera, supposedly for video chat. Thanks to inconsistent network support for videocalls, nobody actually uses it. That may change soon, as mobile Skype client Fring releases video support for Nokia 5800, N97, N95 and N82 handsets. More models coming soon.

The front-facing camera on my Nokia feels as useless and disappointing as the Nokia app store. Since Skype is my primary VoIP service, the latest version of Fring should ease that disappointment.

Maybe I should get a new console and go back to my console gaming habits. I’m really dying to know how could a video console fare up as a social networking device. I mean, a couple of days ago Sony announced that the Playstation 3 now supports Facebook updates.  For me that was awesome, and now here comes this report saying that more users or gamers if I may say so are doing their social networking chores on Xbox Live. What the?

Is it just me or are you aware that at least 2 million Xbox Live users have used their console to log-in to Facebook , while half of them used it to create a Last.fm account?  In addition,  the number of gamers who are using the Xbox Live to tweet are also increasing.

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Apple iPhone Ad – Did You See My Email? from Arik Hesseldahl on Vimeo.

Have you caught the two new iPhone ads shown on TV last night? Reports had it that the new iPhone ads were supposed to appear on shows such as “House”, “Dancing with the Stars”, “How I Met Your Mother” and other Daily Shows on Comedy Central.

Anyway, the ads are appended at the start and end of this post, so enjoy watching. In case you’re wondering what are those iPhone ads are all about. Rumor has it that it’s Apple’s subtle attack on Verizon Wireless which was in a mobile phone ads war with AT&T. AT&T of course is the exclusive distributor of the iPhone. So, you get the picture? More →