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by Davey Winder
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 |
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Page 3 of 3 My favourite mashup of the event has to be the non-prize
winning carbon goggles which were used within a Second Life 3D
immersive environment to display the carbon footprint of every object
within the virtual world. The developers overlayed real world carbon
emission data over virtual objects in Second Life and fed the results
through the carbon goggles.
The serious concept behind the fun idea being
that by actually seeing the amount of carbon everything uses we can
make more informed decisions about energy consumption.
All in all then, you must hark back to 1936 and that first TV broadcast
from Alexandra Palace. A truly momentous occasion that started a media
revolution. A revolution that is continuing in the creative talent of
the hackers who got mashed at the BBC this past week...
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