interesting 2.14.10
- Robonaut: NASA & GM build next generation dexterous humanoid robot capable of working side by side with people
- Tale of Tales: Over Games – Presentation by Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn @ Art History of Games symposium
- ONull: Vector Generator – converts images into rasterized vector graphics
- Pixable: online photo mosaic tool – founded by three MIT students
- RIP Alexander McQueen – fashion genius
- Glitch: browser based MMORPG created by Tiny Speck, four original members of Flickr
- Google Buzz: social networking built right into Gmail
interesting 10.11.09
- Art:21: Compassion – documentary featuring artists William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, & Carrie Mae Weems [watch online]
- Haruyama Trading Co. has developed a menswear suit that it claims protects the wearer from H1N1 swine flu
- RIP Irving Penn, Legendary Photographer
- Internet Eyes: Monitor CCTV cameras from home & win cash rewards by spotting crimes in progress – surveillance game
- University of Tsukuba Biological Cybernetics Lab developing a robot hand system that can imitate the dexterous motions of humans using image recognition and motion tracking
- PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage – composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels, using online image search
- David Spriggs – art installations
- Adobe Labs – Adobe Flash Professional CS5: Applications for iPhone
interesting 9.27.09
- Videogames now outperform Hollywood movies
- YDreams: Flyar – Twitter visualization screensaver using augmented reality & gesture interaction
- Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Introduces Room for PSP – online community service, avatar based social network
- The Last Guardian: Interview with Team ICO Director/Game Designer Fumito Ueda & New Video
- Stress: Portrait of a Killer » National Geographic Documentary with Robert Sapolsky (Stanford University)
- Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School
- Bionic Eye: augmented reality iPhone 3GS application
- Ekovaruhuset Brings Down the House (of Organic) at The GreenShows
- Mojito shoe by architect Julian Hakes – minimal single piece design with no foot plate
- mybiennialisbetterthanyours – online project curated by Tolga Taluy for the Xth Biennale de Lyon
- ESA: Wearable Augmented Reality (WEAR) – Voice controlled head-mounted display helps astronauts make sense of space
- The Yes Men: “WE’RE SCREWED”: MEDIA HEIST BLANKETS CITY WITH “SPECIAL EDITION” NEW YORK POST – Tabloid Tells Truth About Climate Change and How It Will Affect City, World
- Brian Eno & Peter Chilvers: Trope – generative music application for iPhone/iPod Touch
- Scientist Ray Kurzweil claims humans could become immortal in as little as 20 years
interesting 8.16.09
- ~IDENTITÄT – The »Gestalt« of digital identity: data generated sculptures by Jonas Loh & Steffen Fiedler
- Fix the World Challenge | A Yes Men game
- Help test next-generation infrastructure of Google Search – Caffeine
- Sony Party-shot personal photographer: innovative camera dock automatically detects faces & takes photos for you
- Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
- Chau Har Lee: conceptual footwear designer
interesting 5.3.09
- TIME announces The World’s Most Influential Person – moot, founder of 4chan.org
- Firekites: AUTUMN STORY – Stop motion hand drawn chalk animation music video by Lucinda Schreiber & Yanni Kronenberg
- MAG: Massive Action Game – 256 player MMORPG shooter for PlayStation 3, re-create battles on scale of Blackhawk Down
- AMERICAN HARDCORE: documentary of underground hardcore punk years 1979 to 1986, directed by Paul Rachman [watch online]
- Breathe Owl Breathe: Boat – music video directed by Weston Currie
- Flickr: The Official White House Photostream
- 6+ Antwerp Fashion: exhibition – Margiela, Bikkembergs, Demeulemeester, Van Beirendonck, Van Noten, Van Saene, & Yee
- Metaverse Meetup – Community of Metaverse Meetup chapters, worldwide
- Ekovaruhuset House of Organic Eco-Fashion Boutique Opens in Paris
- Wool Clothing Fetish
- Makoto Tojiki: The Man With No Shadow – LED light sculpture
- Marco Tempest: Augmented Reality Card Magic 1.0 [video]
Annie Ok as a Frenzoo avatar
interesting 2.1.09
- Augmented reality physics – demo of new physics engine by HITLabNZ [video]
- light bulb: a levitating, wirelessly powered lightbulb – kinetic sculpture by Jeff Lieberman
- Outlaws at the Art Museum (and Not for a Heist) – Fairey’s Obama portrait & street art in museums
- The History of Visual Communication
- NBC.com Brings ‘Heroes’ to Habbo’s Virtual World
- Kevin Kelly: Technology, or the Evolution of Evolution
- Video game conditioning spills over into real life – New research suggests virtual worlds sway real-life choices
- ATOM: Performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound
- Funeral for Analog TV, presented by Long Now Foundation, Berkeley Center for New Media, & Berkeley Art Museum
- Maison Martin Margiela artisanale collection
- Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds: Digital Release
- Ten sci-fi devices that could soon be in your hands
- HANDSTYLE: graffiti, tags, calligraphy, signatures & other handwritten scribbles
- Dezeen podcast: Hussein Chalayan at the Design Museum
- Mixm8: music based virtual world, coming soon
- GE promoting eco-friendly Smart Grid with its 1st Super Bowl spot & augmented reality holograms
- Giles Walker: Pole Dancers – art installation of animated CCTV camera-headed robots performing in a peepshow
- DAYTUM: a home for collecting and communicating your daily data – lifelogging data visualization
- Coca-Cola: Avatar – mixed reality Super Bowl spot [video]
- Rob Bryanton: Imagining the Tenth Dimension [video]
- zefrank: voice draw beta – voice-based drawing toy
interesting 1.25.09
- Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics – by Danah Boyd
- YouTube begins experimenting with downloadable videos
- Watch the 2009 Presidential Inauguration without a TV
- Visualization of Obama Wikipedia page edits by Jamie Wilkinson using Wikiswarm
- Watch Obama Inauguration online with CNN.com Live and Facebook
- Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov – 1st blog post by Macon Phillips on behalf of Obama presidency
- Before & After: WhiteHouse.gov – side by side comparison screenshots
- Obama’s inaugural speech
- Inauguration Overload – news organizations experiment with innovative ways to address event
- The Yale Law Journal – Symposium Issue: Virtual Worlds
- Augmented Reality + Cloth Simulation, using FLARToolKit, Away3D, and WOW-Engine [video]
- FriendFeed launches friend importer for Twitter – find and subscribe to your Twitter friends on FriendFeed
- Sundance Film Festival 2009: Created Worlds – machinima panel
- 7 Phenomenal Wonders of the Natural World
- The Big Picture: Inauguration of President Barack Obama – photos from around the world
- Miguel Caballero: High Security Fashion – allegedly made Obama’s bullet-resistant Inauguration suit
- Out of Context: Artists and Web Inventories
- Lethal: iPhone/iPod Touch application – use auto-location to tell you about all the potential dangers around you
- Justwatchthesky: lyrics + typography + music
- YouTube officially enables High Quality in embedded videos
- Sound Grenade: “crap” iPhone app made in 20 min, earns +$200/hr in iTunes Store & ranked #3 top free app
- The Designers Republic Is Dead; Long Live The Designers Republic
- Tale of Tales, ultra-talented indie games development studio, on Twitter
- Architect Designs Sony PlayStation Home Virtual World
- LittleBigPlanet: Electronic Beat Sequencer – user created level by vinizu [video]
- Mind Flex: mind control game by Mattel – uses brain waves to float a ball through an obstacle course [video]
interesting 1.18.09
- A Beginner’s Guide to Alternate Reality Games
- Chart of Heavy Metal Band Names
- Congress Comes to YouTube
- Hollywood Finds Headaches in its Big Bet on 3-D
- Inglobe Technologies launches ARplug-in, 1st augmented reality plug-in for Google Sketch-Up
- Neil Gaiman on Twitter
- Security flaw in Safari’s RSS feeds reported
- Golden Gems: collection of Little Golden Books & other vintage illustrations – scans
- Aesthetic Echo by Rafael Rozendaal – an endless abstract landscape
- NZ cops claim ‘first Facebook arrest’ of bungling safe-cracker
- Microsoft Research: Songsmith – generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice
- History of the Internet [video]
- Sony launches Dress in Japanese PlayStation Store – fashion design application for avatars
- American Idol virtual world to launch within Habbo
- It isn’t easy being green – avatar customization & differentiation in virtual worlds (Thanks for the shoutout, Jonas!)
- The Rise of the Machines – Top 10 Countries by Robot Density
- US Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River, NYC
- Recorded live video of US Airways plane crashing into the Hudson River
- Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown – bullying among kids bigger problem
- Developer Learning Solutions: Free eDoc on Getting Started with iPhone Development
- Coming Up Next… YouTube on Your TV
- YouTube on your PlayStation 3…in Full-screen! [how-to video]
- artforum: Virtual Realty – Cao Fei’s RMB City opening in Second Life
- 120 Seconds w/ Poster Boy, NYC artist + vigilante [video]
- The Big Picture: Earth, observed – incredible photographs from NASA’s Earth Observatory
- Study: violence in video games not that compelling for most gamers
- Vision 2020: Considering the World + the Future Architect
- NY Times: An Imagination Revealed With Text Bubbles – Amy Wilson exhibition @ Hunterdon Art Museum
- Project Transit: artistic experiment focused on improving the public image of mass transportation
- Damian Lacedaemion of kickass award-winning Halo machinima talk show “This Spartan Life” on Twitter
- CES: Does the future of TV lie in gesture-based control?
- Liveblog of Obama’s Inaugural Welcome Event at the Lincoln Memorial
interesting 12.21.08
- UgoTrade: Smart Planet – Interview with Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM
- Iraqi network journalist throws shoes at Bush in Baghdad
- Augmented Reality MINI Ad Uses 3D Cabrio Model From The Future
- Sony brainstorming with the PlayStation Home community
- TED Talks: Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert presents research & data from his exploration of happiness
- Facebook used to serve legal documents in case where defendants failed to turn up to court
- ZOMG!… ZooBorns: newest & cutest exotic animal babies from zoos & aquariums around the world
- YouTube – George W. Bush’s Nightmare Before Christmas
- EVE Online has become the world’s first virtual democracy
- reason #784 why you should never list your relationship status in your facebook profile
- 2008 Wrap Up: Top 10 Milestones in Augmented Reality
- IBM: Virtual Worlds User Interface for the Blind
- Informative Headgear – augmented reality & new media experience (Thanks for the shoutout Greg!)
- pencil talk: for all you pencil fetishists
- The Standard: limited edition NEW YORK CITY t-shirt by legendary graffiti artist Haze
- Woodwalk: 25-pair limited edition hand-carved wooden sneakers by Paul Coudamy for K-SWISS
- Weblin gate: interoperability portal allows residents of Second Life to export their avatars to the web
- Four Twitter tips from a 10-year-old
- Action AllStars: new sports-themed virtual world for kids, partnered with NBA & MLB
- Apple exploring portable multi-touch skins for 3D surfaces
- w00t! Flight of the Conchords Season 2 Online Premiere
- 15 Adorably Tiny Miniature Pets & Animals
- LittleBigLife: LittleBigPlanet used to create 36-cell simulation of Conway’s Game of Life
- Network Insights: Measuring the Social Report #3: Video Games – interaction/engagement vs sales
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer
- New York City in Photo-Realistic 3D Now in Google Earth
- metaio: Virtual Santa for iPhone – interactive Christmas application using augmented reality (free!)
- Bubblyfish: 8-bit and experimental sound works artist
- UMass: PS3Cluster Guide – set up your own MPI based supercomputer cluster with Playstation 3
- My Top Ten Albums of 2008 (by @courtneyesmith)
- J. Paul Getty Museum on Twitter
- Pet lovers protest cats on the menu in China
- GEEKWARE: Geek gifts made from recycled electronic waste
- London Shop Fronts – great collection of photographs
- Beware: Your ‘tweet’ on Twitter could be trouble – Latest networking craze carries many legal risks
- Vuzix Wrap 920AV video glasses combine virtual reality capabilities and augmented reality features
- stunning trailer for Final Fantasy Versus XIII
- Snaaaake! Metal Gear Solid in LittleBigPlanet trailer & posters
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