Thursday, September 30, 2010

[061] The Internet of Cars by Ford

The one future of networked objects might be in public information and infrastructure: the internet of cars.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

[060] Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen

It's the best data visualization. He puts data stats in a very fun and interactive way. Great!



Hans Rosling on global population growth.
I love the way he uses aids for what he tries to say. Even it's analog way but very clear and impressive.

Friday, September 24, 2010

[059] Mozilla Seabird 2D

If Mozilla made a cellphone, what would it be?
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[058] Seil Bag: Backpack Shows LED Turn Signals

It's cute and brilliant gadget for bikers or just pedestrians too. A biker's backpack with flexible LEDs and circuitry applied to the back which lets you make turn signals with both hands on the bars.
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SEIL bag by Lee Myung Su design lab from Ben on Vimeo.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

[057] The Future of the Book from IDEO

IDEO released the video clip about new forms of book in digital era. Here are three great visions: Nelson, Coupland, and Alice.
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The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

[056] Stephen Colbert talked with Google CEO Eric Schmidt

They talked about user privacy. Changing your name was the only way of your privacy and then said it was a joke?...a ha

www.colbertnation.com

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

[055] Kinetic Chandelier SILKE

It consists out of twelve arms that can individually move and direct a light-beam from their tip to any point at the room. The single arms move a bit like the tail of a cat and together with the sounds of 24 servo-motors it immediately creates the feeling a living creature might be present.
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Kinetic Chandelier "Silke" from Sebastian Neitsch on Vimeo.

Monday, September 20, 2010

[054] 3D Interior Design Meets Futuristic Mediated Reality

These two stunning videos show use what daily home life might be like in the not-too-distant future. Whether their visionary outlooks are utopian or dystopian, however, is for your to decide.

The digital environments in this first video take on the potential of augmented reality to both shape our household experiences in positive ways and commercialize the last bastions of privacy – our very walls, furniture, furnishings and fixtures.

The second video is perhaps a bit more positive in its outlook, suggesting creative menus that could surround us while we work … it might still look like an information overload scenario, but so would the web had someone showed it to us a few decades ago.
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Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.


Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Friday, September 17, 2010

[053] Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation

Chris talkes about how web video powers and affects global innovation and shows what is the next step of TED for a better future.

[052] Spit Paint

Created by W+K in partnership with Marvellous and Greyworld, Spit Paint is a recent installation at the Nokia World held only few days ago in London. Shown at the show was an app running on a new Nokia N8 allowing you to apply digital paint to a wall, in this case a 6m by 3m wall of LED lights. You could also apply paint via a “digital bucket of paint” provided at the installation with a specially designed control panel to record a face over which the paint would be applied.
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Blowing Paint (2010) at Nokia World.. from greyworld on Vimeo.


Neil throws some Paint (2010) from greyworld on Vimeo.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

[051] Braun Tube Jazz Band at REPAIR in Linz 2010 (Ars Electronica)

Ei Wada is a Japanese artist/musician. This year at Ars he gave probably one of the best performances at the festival. Wada's band is composed of him and a set of old Braun tube televisions, of the type that nowadays you see dumped in the trash.
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[050] Amazingly Creative 3D Light Painting Technique Using an iPad

This video will blow your mind. We’ve all seen light-painting photos and stop-motion animations created with those photos, but marketing agency Dentsu London figured out how to take light painting a step further using an iPad.
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Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.