Thursday, March 10, 2011

[110] Immaterials: Light painting Wi-Fi

Invisible Urban Topography: Visualizing City Wi-Fi Fields
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Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.

[109] 300 Helium Balloons Float Real ‘Up’ House 10,000 Feet High

The fantastical film 'Up' features an old man, tired of being tethered to the ground, flying away using hundreds of helium-filled balloons.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

[108] This Room Is Entirely White

Some 3D mapping, two projectors, and a garish color scheme were all it took to give this totally blank canvas an infinite variety of interior designs.
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Living Room from Mr.Beam on Vimeo.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

[107] The Largest Touch-Screen and 360-degree OLED Display

Giant, Spectacular Multi-Touch Screen Wraps Around You
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Take a look at this gigantic 360-degree OLED display Mitsubishi rolled out this week in Amsterdam.
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[106] Spray-On Skin: Stem Cell Gun Safely Heals Burns in Days

This incredible new “gun” could radically change the way burn victims are treated, increasing success rates and dramatically reducing healing times.
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[105] A Little Light Breakfast: Bright Idea For Wireless Electricity

At CES 2010, wireless electricity innovators eCoupled showed off their vision for the future of grocery stores: cereal boxes that light up right on the supermarket shelves.
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[104] Transparent Brick: See-Through Clay Wall

Science just keeps finding ways to make the most solid of materials suddenly permeable to light and/or sound- aluminum, wood, even concrete, but bricks beat them all by a long shot for sheer simplicity: all one has to do is turn them on their side!
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plinthos by mabarchitects from mab architects on Vimeo.

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

[103] Google Art Project - Visitor Guide

Google has taken its street view cameras inside some of the world's most famous museums.
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Monday, January 24, 2011

[102] Zip It: Wearable Tech Jacket Runs iPod With Hand Gestures

Zip It: Wearable Tech Jacket Runs iPod With Hand Gestures by Dos Rios
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ZIP from Dos Rios on Vimeo.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

[101] Lasurface

"Flip" phone designed by Kristian Ulrich Larsen shows another type of future device.
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What is being creative? from Kristian Larsen on Vimeo.

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

[100] Song Cabinet

Plays music, with the rhythm changing as you pull the drawer out further.
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Song Cabinet -- Test Loop from trustynick on Vimeo.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

[099] Digital Visualization of Invisible Data Flow

This picture depicts something altogether more fascinating: the SMS (short message service, or text message) traffic traveling through the air of Amsterdam at one specific time.
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Amsterdam SMS messages on New Years Eve from Aaron Koblin on Vimeo.

Friday, December 10, 2010

[098] DJ Light

DJ Light is an immersive public sound and light installation that gives visitors the power to orchestrate an awe-inspiring performance of light and sound across a large public space. It was created for energy company Endesa as the cornerstone of their Christmas celebrations in Lima, Peru.
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DJ Light (DJ Luz), Lima 2010 from Cinimod Studio on Vimeo.

[097] A Breath of Life by Fraser Ross

Scotland-based artist and designer Fraser Ross presented his project A Breath of Life, an study of artificial plant life.
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A Breath of Life by Fraser Ross 2010 from FRASER ROSS on Vimeo.

Thursday, December 09, 2010

[096] How the World Googled in 2010

Shortly after Yahoo released its list of the year's top searches, Google has announced the results of its annual zeitgeist report, revealing the most popular search terms of 2010 by region and worldwide.
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

[093] Boom Shakalaka

Boom Shakalaka is both a game and installation allowing visitors to engage with a game using physical interfaces. Included are a button, lever, and a domino, whilst the game is displayed on a long wall made of six separate screens. When for example the lever is pulled down the balls are released in the game which fill up buckets. The only way to release them is by pressing the physical button.
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Lucas Werthein & Jason Aston - Boom Shakalaka from Lucas Werthein on Vimeo.

[092] Proverbial Wallets

Now that we spend so much of our money through electronic means, it is often difficult to gauge our spending habits without the physical reminder of cash. the proverbial wallets is a project by MIT’s media lab that aims to give digital money a physical presence.
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Proverbial Wallets from John Kestner on Vimeo.

[091] Tableau: physical email

Countless projects have tried to figure out how to retain some of the tangibleness lost in our increasingly digital world. Few of them have done it as convincingly as Tableau, a beautifully simple, Twitter-connected photo printer and scanner.
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Tableau: physical email from John Kestner on Vimeo.