interesting 3.14.10
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 2.21.10
- ShadyURL: Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening
- Sketchpad: Free online paint/drawing application – utilizing html5 <canvas>
- Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum – online exhibition
- Please Rob Me: Listing all those empty homes out there – raises awareness of the dangers of location sharing services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz
- Magic Wands: Warrior (The xx Remix) – download free mp3
- Chatroulette: connects users with random strangers for live video chats – created by 17 year old Andrey Ternovskiy
- The AIKON project: the Artistic/Automated Ikonograph – using computational & robotic technologies to explore the drawing activity
- TED Talks: Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Microsoft’s augmented reality mapping tech incorporating Photosynth
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 2.7.10
- PBS FRONTLINE: digital nation – life on the virtual frontier [documentary]
- Antony Gormley: Event Horizon – NYC art installation opens 4.26.10
- Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project: Social Media and Young Adults [presentation]
- IO 9elements: HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment
- RIP J.D. Salinger – author of “The Catcher in the Rye”
interesting 1.24.10
- CNN Haiti earthquake 360° interactive video
- iSites: Create your own iPhone app in 10 min for $25
- The Tester: new original reality series set to debut exclusively on PlayStation Network
- NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space: Crew Support LAN gives astronauts personal Web access – 1st live Tweet from International Space Station
- YouTube launches movie rentals at Sundance
- LG Display Unveils Newspaper-Size Flexible E-Paper
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 12.27.09
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
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