interesting 2.28.10
- Skinput: appropriating the body as a finger input surface
- Codeorgan: turns any webpage into music
- James E. Cutting: Attention and the Evolution of Hollywood Film – psychological science study
- chat roulette: documentary short film about chatroulette.com – live video chats with random strangers
- Nation Branding: Everything about Nation Branding and Country Brands
interesting 1.17.10
- The Third & The Seventh: A FULL-CG 3D animated short film by Alex Roman
- Inklet: Allows your MacBook trackpad to emulate a pen tablet
- Google may cease operations in China due to cyber attacks
- Graham Cluley of Sophos: German Government says don’t use Internet Explorer
- AVATAR by James Cameron – screenplay [PDF]
- Blu Dot Real Good Experiment: 25 chairs placed around NYC, free to take, then GPS tracked
- Google files US patent: Claiming Real Estate in Panoramic or 3D Mapping Environments for Advertising
- Hallmark launches augmented reality cards
- EverTune: patented guitar bridge that keeps your strings in tune…forever
interesting 12.20.09
- EPIC Defends Privacy of Facebook Users: Files Complaint with the Federal Trade Commission
- Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army”
- Lou Zoom: iPhone app by Lou Reed – brings style & clarity to your contacts
- Apple Working on 3D ‘Hyper-Reality’ Displays
- The Known Universe – film by American Museum of Natural History, based on Digital Universe Atlas [video]
- IRON MAN 2 [HD trailer]
- Sodium: MMORPG social game with microtransactions in PlayStation Home
- A World For Us – Browser-based 3D Worlds Makers – based on Unity 3D game engine
- Japanese department store offers robots that look like their buyers
- An introduction to 3D on the Mac
- Sketch Nation: iPhone/iPod Touch app where users design their own games by taking pictures of their drawings
- Looking for Gender: Gender Roles and Behaviors Among Online Gamers [PDF]
- MIT Media Lab: BiDi Screen – 3D gesture interaction with LCD bidirectional screen that possesses ability to both capture images & display them
interesting 12.13.09
- Seppukoo: Assisting your virtual suicide
- Stanford researchers develop next generation of retinal implants
- At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = instant battery
- Facebook’s New Privacy Push Concerns Experts
- My Car is My Lover: Documentary about mechaphiles – fetish for sex with cars & other vehicles [video]
- Current: Vanguard presents – Remote Control War [video]
- instructables: how to convert a standard outlet into an in-wall USB Charger
- MIT Red Balloon Team wins $40,000 cash prize in DARPA Network Challenge
- Google Goggles – Use pictures to search the web – image recognition app for mobile phones
interesting 11.29.09
- US Air Force: Solicitation document for 2,200 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles
- The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs by Michael Belfiore [book]
- CERN Press Release: “Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC”
- Walky: Operating Method for a Bipedal Walking Robot through Personalized Gestures Expression of Fingers – iPhone controller
- NC State University: IC-CRIME – using Unity game engine to help forensic scientists reconstruct crime scenes
- Saqoosha: .fla2 / 15 Whiteboard Sequencer [video]
- OK Go – HTF? – Official Making of WTF? [video]
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 8.30.09
- The Wall Has Fallen: 3 Augmented Reality Apps Now Live in iPhone App Store
- Live webcam of the construction of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, NYC
- RIP Senator Edward Kennedy
- Obama’s FCC to enforce net neutrality
- Metro Paris Subway: Augmented reality application for iPhone 3GS – by Presselite
- Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratories [video]
- Radiohead: These Are My Twisted Words [free MP3]
- Glitch : Designing Imperfection – a book on Glitch Art and Design Aesthetics
- INTERPOL creates online access to global stolen works of art database to reduce illicit trade
- Sean Kingston: Virtual Sean – augmented reality karaoke app
interesting 6.28.09
- John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner [video]
- Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn’t Age – 16 year old Brooke Greenberg remains a toddler
- Another Perfect World: virtual worlds documentary – Second Life, Lineage, Eve Online, etc
- RIP Michael Jackson
- The New York Times: New York City Homicides Map (2003-2009)
- Ideas worth taking credit for. The TED augmented reality hoax.
- The Big Picture: A troubled week in Iran
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]
interesting 4.26.09
- The Big Picture: Cassini’s continued mission – amazing images of Saturn, its ring system and moons
- NOVA: Car of the Future – in search of a new breed of clean, fuel-efficient vehicles [video]
- DARPA Passes Key Programmable Matter Milestone – developing particles that can assemble into solid objects on command
- Mind-reading headsets will change your brain
- Aaron Meyers: YouCube – map YouTube videos onto an interactive 3D cube & then save to a database to share with others
- Twitt3D – Follow Your Twitter Feeds in 3D
- 2009 Webby Awards Nominees for Netart: Britglyph, Dreamgrove, JacksonPollock.org, Protect 77, & Time Spent Alone
- STAR TREK Avatar Contest in PlayStation Home
- A crash course in emerging technologies – how Singularity University might change the world
- Distance Lab: melding technology, design and the arts to redefine and overcome distance
- Boffswana: Living Sasquatch – funny interactive augmented reality Sasquatch avatar
- slowLab: slow design as a positive catalyst
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