“Kinect has always been able to tell that you’re moving. But now it can tell if you’re moving your thumb, and which way your thumb is facing.”
for(){}; - projection mapped video game on canvas
Playable art by Brent Watanabe features acrylic hand-painted canvases mounted on wall, with sprites projected on surface - video embedded below:
In for( ){ };, there is no beginning or end to the game, just collecting and wandering, birthing and consuming, an arbitrary point system rising until your inevitable death and the birth of another generation. It is a game mechanism without the game. An addictive but essentially aimless experience.
The piece is a triptych of playable acrylic paintings, controlled by the viewer using a NES controller.
Re: Sound Bottle
An electronic sound sampler in a bottle which constructs music from the sounds you give it, by Jun Fujiwara - video embedded below:
Re: Sound Bottle from Jun Fujiwara on Vimeo.
This is a music medium that can reproduce a recorded voice as music. It makes a database of sound sources that is managed and used as formal and automatic repetitions, and forms a music medium of the day. I felt something missing in the habitual use of music reproduction media, so I thought to create an interactive music medium that changes. By using everyday voices as sources of music, the sounds that are heard all the time every day carry infinite possibilities and help us reaffirm the enjoyment of music. I hope people can experience their own music.
‘Explore the Galaxy’ lets you travel across the Milky Way from the comfort of your browser
Google’s Chrome Experiments have long provided users with in-browser distractions that simultaneously show off the power of HTML 5, Javascript, and other open web technologies, but a new one that arrived today is definitely one of our favorites. “Explore the Galaxy” lets you zoom all the way in on the Sun and a number of other nearby stars and then click, drag, and scroll your way across the entire Milky Way galaxy. It’s a visual treat that really drives home the vastness of outer space that simultaneously fills your brain with knowledge — clicking on the 87 stars closest to Earth will pull up quick Wikipedia-sourced descriptions for each.
Pumpktris
Playable electronic Tetris game cased inside a real pumpkin, with perforations and LEDs as pixels:
More about how and why it was but together at HaHa Bird:
One of my habits is to write down all the crazy, fleeting ideas I have, then go back to review later rather than judging right off the bat, or even worse, forgetting them. Earlier in the month I was looking through that idea notepad and found “Make Tetris Pumpkins” from sometime last year. My original plan had been to make forms to shape pumpkins into Tetris pieces as they grew, then stack them together for Halloween. Since Halloween was only a few weeks away and it was too late to start growing pumpkins, I thought “Why not make a pumpkin you can play Tetris on instead?”
You can read more about how it was put together here
Quite possibly the best new iOS photo app!?!
Frank Said What will analyze any photo you take and tell you what it sees. We’re not totally sure how it works quite yet, but we hope it’s a hamster named Frank sitting behind a computer.
It’s free for a limited time!
Frank Said What - App Describes Your Photo in (Clever) Words
via Jonathan Wegener
(via photojojo)
Source: welovephoneography
Phantom Geometry
Experimental 3D printing using special UV light responsive resin, by Liz and Kyle von Hasseln:
Phantom Geometry from Liz and Kyle von Hasseln on Vimeo.
This is ‘Phantom Geometry’, a masters thesis in architecture by Kyle von Hasseln and Liz von Hasseln, developed in the Robot House at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc). It was awarded the inaugural Gehry Prize at the SCI-Arc commencement ceremony on September 9.
This work is centered on the development of a system for generating material volume from streaming information. The system uses UV light from a modified DLP projector to continuously and selectively cure photo initiated resin within a shallow vat system we developed for the project. The cured part is simultaneously and continually pulled away from the vat, allowing un-cured resin to flood in beneath it to be subsequently cured. The result is the material reification of streaming data that emerges along the motion path of the Staubli robot maneuvering the vat/projector apparatus.
This system of fabrication relies upon native real-time feed-back and feed-forward mechanisms, and is therefore interruptible and corruptible at any time. The streaming data input may be transformed or modified at any time, and such interventions impact emerging downstream geometry.
(via roomthily)
Source: vimeo.com
Photogotchi
Soon-to-be-released digital filter camera app gamifies process with 8-Bit look and a virtual pet:
Photogotchi App Trailer - for iPhone and Windows Phone from CarnationGroup on Vimeo.
Featuring a fast camera with five unique filters in the 8-bit format, users can easily turn their pictures into vintage Gameboy and arcade-style photos.
Not just a photography app, Photogotchi takes its name, and inspiration, from the 90s, after the virtual pet craze of that era. It is also the first app to combine photography and a real-time, interactive game.“We wanted to create an app that would capture the nostalgia of the Tamagotchi era, that was a big part of growing up in the last decade. We’ve improved upon that experience by mashing up the two things that we love in the age of the smartphone: camera filters, and fun, engaging games.”
New antenna speeds up Wi-Fi by 200x.
Researchers in Singapore have developed a tiny antenna able to produce wireless speeds of 20-Gbits per second, which is 200 times faster than current Wi-Fi speeds.
The tiny device measures 1.6 x 1.2mm, which also makes it the smallest silicone based antenna to date. The antenna differs from previous antennas by being filled with a polymer instead of air, and the team says the technique is suitable for mass production.
(via 8bitfuture)
