3D Sound from ordinary laptop speakers

Edgar Choueiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, has developed a way to play true three-dimensional sound recordings over regular loudspeakers, such as those found in televisions and computer laptops. The filter is designed to work with loudspeakers – not headphones – and can be experienced through standard computer speakers. (Make …

LeapJS – JavaScript client(s) for the Leap Motion Controller

My Leap Motion Controller arrived last week. It’s quite fun to play around with, yet not recommended for every day use (this review by The Verge sums it all up quite nicely). Above that the daemon eats away CPU cycles as if it were candy 🙁 One very cool aspect about the Leap Motion though …

WebZap – Web Dev Photoshop Plugin

WebZap is a web developer panel extension for Adobe Photoshop that is designed to help streamline the design processes undertaken by website user interface designers during the mock up and wire framing phases of web site development. Whilst I like this from a technical point of view (straight in Photoshop, huh?!) I think you’re better …

Why mobile web apps are slow

It may prove to be a very stupid idea, but this article is my attempt to talk reasonably about a topic that has so far spawned 100% unreasonable flamewar-filled bikeshed discussions. A lengthy, yet highly informative, and very in-depth article on why exactly JS-heavy web apps run slow on mobiles. Goes into depth on garbage …