[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.

[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.

[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

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[049] NIKE78 - Nick Marsh | ‘NIKE Wiis’

The user simply puts on the shoes, turns on the balance board/shoes (nike-wiis) and then plays as normal, except it's not a normal way to play. As you are now physically attached the to the board, the actions have changed, you can no longer simply step off, so you must lift your foot and stand on one leg or sit down when no pressure is required, making for an altogether interestingly different experience.
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NIKE78 - Nick Marsh | ‘NIKE Wiis’ from NIKE78 on Vimeo.

[048] Graffiti Analysis 3.0 Is Here

Graffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study in the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen gestures involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived as a Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) file, a specifically formatted XML file designed to be a common open structure for archiving gestural graffiti motion data.
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Graffiti Analysis 3.0 from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

[047] Tristan Perich 1-Bit Symphony

Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case like his first circuit album (1-Bit Music 2004-05), 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally "performs" its music live when turned on.
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Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony (Part 1: Overview) from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

[046] Frame Seductions

Frame Seductions explores the concept of looking outside of the video frame by tracking the head movements of people in front of the screen. Only a static but very seducing image can be seen from the distance but as visitors come nearer and turn their head to the left or to the right the perspective of the video on the screen automatically follows their gaze, enabling them to access material that would otherwise be outside of the filming frame. Viewers can this discover quirky scenarios lurking in the sidelines: characters appear in several places at once, exit through doors to reappear elsewhere and sometimes give the viewer or each other quizzical looks.
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Frame Seductions from Pierre Proske on Vimeo.

Frame Seductions reminds me of Re-Gaze that my friend from Parsons DT created.
Re-Gaze
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[045] Relational Lights

The work turns the light setting into a organism that can both live on its own or interact with spectators when they enter the roon. When viewers are outside the active tracking area, the system dialogue with the space by extruding and morphing sequences of geometric light forms. As soon as visitors enter the projected light-space, a collective and participatory expression of space unfolds.
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[044] Light Frequency Fingertips

Light Frequency Fingertips is a musical instrument composed of four fingercaps which transform light frequencies emitted by the displays of mobile phones into acoustic signals that can be mixed and faded during live performances.
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[043] Insert Personality: Robot Head + Human Consciousness =

Good to see how the robot "Bina48" makes conversation.
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[042] The Information Age: Living in Advertising Overload

The film shows plainly how we are surrounded by visual stimuli everywhere we go.
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KAPITAAL from STUDIO SMACK on Vimeo.

[041] Knee Deep - Cinekid 2009

Knee Deep is an interactive installation that invites children to jump in and explore unexpected worlds of different proportions with their feet.
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Knee Deep - Cinekid 2009 from Theo Watson on Vimeo.

[040] Floating Forecaster

Floating Forecaster is a project by Richard Harvey which includes a physical display that reinterprets information via hovering patterns and flowing movements.
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Floating Forecaster from Richard Harvey on Vimeo.

[039] Power Laces- the Auto lacing shoe

You may remember v1.0 of Bevin’s sneakers, an early version of the Nike boots worn by Marty McFly in Back to the Future 2, with an external Arduino-controlled motor that only a geek could love. V2.0 is now ready, and all the components (servos) have been hidden inside for a way cooler shoe. Take a look at the video. The money-shot is at the end:
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Hahaha I really need this. My shoe laces always loosen. Sick and tired of tying up.
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