Logbook of things

The Facadeprinter is a large scale communication tool produced...

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:34:06 +0100

The Facadeprinter is a large scale communication tool produced by German design company Sonice Development GmbH that shoots artwork onto walls.

Microsoft creates Kinect-like system using your laptop’s built-in speaker & microphone

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:28:35 +0100

Microsoft creates Kinect-like system using your laptop’s built-in speaker & microphone

Contacted last year by Honda to create something based on the...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:58:28 +0100

Contacted last year by Honda to create something based on the CAD information of the re-designed five-door Civic, Ikeda started from the solid object to convert the material into intangible sounds and images of seemingly transparent waves in the air. With his art Ryoji aims to capture an unperceived dimension and succeeds once again in this particular project.

An Arduino project that changes the music played in an office...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:54:48 +0100

An Arduino project that changes the music played in an office when people throw things at the poster.

The Coca-Cola Hug Machine. Because vending machines have...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:43:38 +0100

The Coca-Cola Hug Machine. Because vending machines have feelings too.

Video

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:03:38 +0000

Van Gogh’s Starry Night Interactive by Petros Vrellis...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:39:24 +0000

Van Gogh’s Starry Night Interactive by Petros Vrellis [openFrameworks]

In this modern era of smartphones and connected appliances, home...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:32:44 +0000

In this modern era of smartphones and connected appliances, home automation shouldn’t require a complex, expensive, and closed system — and with Belkin WeMo ($50-$100), it doesn’t have to. Combining an app with Wi-Fi-enabled Home Control Switch models and motion sensors, WeMo can give you the power to turn off lights, appliances, and more, or have them operate automatically based on who is — or isn’t — in the room.

"The decision to shutter the business, which Kodak says will save it more than $100 million a year,..."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:37:19 +0000

“The decision to shutter the business, which Kodak says will save it more than $100 million a year, is the strongest symbol yet of the sea change in consumer electronics and decades of missteps that forced the former blue-chip company to seek bankruptcy protection last month.”

- Dana Mattioli, reporting for the WSJ - A sad fate for a once-great company. But when not selling a product saves you $100 million a year, you know you were in the wrong business or doing business wrong.

"The world is full of ideas that can be executed with 10 to 20 hours per week, let alone 40. The..."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:23:53 +0000

“

The world is full of ideas that can be executed with 10 to 20 hours per week, let alone 40. The number of projects that are truly impossible unless you put in 80 or 120 hours per week are vanishingly small by comparison.

This is of course nothing new. We’ve been playing this bongo drum for years. But every time I see people crumble and quit from the crunch-mode pressure cooker, I think what a shame, it didn’t have to be like that.

”

- David Heinemeier Hansson

Up-coming animators display their work on the BT Tower LED...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:28:25 +0000

Up-coming animators display their work on the BT Tower LED screen (I helped make that). Technically they projected their work from not onto the tower.

"As we move away from interaction via screens and into physical space, we have the potential to make..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:01:00 +0000

“As we move away from interaction via screens and into physical space, we have the potential to make the world significantly more magical. We can make the everyday into the any day, especially if we focus on communication and understanding.”

- Zach Lieberman of Openframeworks responding to the question “how will technology become more humanised in the next decade”, in Wired’s March 2012 issue. (via tim)

bashford: A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors Experiments performed with...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:01 +0000

bashford:

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors

Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.

Lego creates a really nice, super niche AR app to work alongside...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:59:49 +0000

Lego creates a really nice, super niche AR app to work alongside a physical toy.

Kinect for Windows

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:41:35 +0000

Kinect for Windows

Ubuntu Linux dumps menus, replaces them with a search box -...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:56:41 +0000

Ubuntu Linux dumps menus, replaces them with a search box - interesting move.

Students demonstrate innovative iPad book page flip -...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:45:08 +0000

Students demonstrate innovative iPad book page flip - interesting interface. Not convinced but would love to give it a try.

Lovely new More4 indents from ManvsMachine

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:53:37 +0000

Lovely new More4 indents from ManvsMachine

From Yves Béhar of fuseproject, the design mind behind the...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:50:38 +0000

From Yves Béhar of fuseproject, the design mind behind the “XO” laptop for the One Laptop per Child program, Jawbone UP and Jambox, comes Sabi, a line of medication vessels aimed at bringing beauty and efficiency to an everyday necessity.

"I don’t like [the Turing Test] that much, in part because I don’t care about the philosophy angle. I..."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:49:45 +0000

“I don’t like [the Turing Test] that much, in part because I don’t care about the philosophy angle. I want to build something useful. We already know how to make humans; I made two of them.”

- Peter Norvig - Google’s go-to AI guy sees phones getting much smarter (via bashford)