Microsoft funds an iPad app that generates narrative outlines, and you have to fill in the blanks.
An ambient display that paints a visual memory of time in an never-ending loop. Lovely.
3175 radioactive isotopes that you can listen and make music with. Highly addictive.
http://www.nuclear.kth.se/radioactiveorchestra
Sorry about the lack of updates. Work is taking up most of my time at the moment, but here’s some stuff I liked recently. Will try and share more of this kind of stuff in the future. Sound like a plan?
Chrome: SBTV
The first ad in the first break of the new series of X-Factor was this ad for Google Chrome, featuring youth site SBTV, and its founder Jamal Edwards. Inspiring da yoots. Excellent work.
DC Shoes: Ken Block’s Hollywood Megamercial
Gynkhama is back, this time he’s tearing around on the backlots of Universal Studios, California.
TableDrum
A virtual drumkit which syncs the sound of any object to high quality drum samples of your choice. /via Ad Bright
DragonTape HTML5 Mixmaker
Dragontape is an easy to use HTML5 video & sound editor that enables anyone to create mixtape playlists (up to 3 hours long) from YouTube and SoundCloud clips. /via Rubbishcorp
http://www.dragontape.com/home
Nike+ City Runs
An installation for Nike retail stores which visualized a year’s worth of runs from the Nike+ website. Made with OpenFrameworks.
http://yesyesno.com/nike-city-runs
MIT Media Lab’s Brilliant New Logo Has 40,000 Permutations
The algorithm can create 40,000 logo shapes in 12 different colour combinations, providing the Media Lab an estimated 25 years’ worth of personalised business cards.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663378/mit-media-labs-brilliant-new-logo-has-40000-permutations-video
Watch YouTube With Friends
Possibly the most interesting recent Google+ feature is a new button on YouTube that lets you start a hang out with friends around a video you’re watching.
http://mashable.com/2011/08/18/watch-with-friends-youtube/
Wearable Electronic Sensors Stick Like Temporary Tattoos, Present Endless Possiblities
A team of researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign have developed small electronic devices that can be worn on the skin.
http://www.geekosystem.com/sensor-temporary-tattoos/
Couple of interesting projects from Toyota and B-Reel using Mind Control. Muwhahahah.
What would a Prius look like if it were a bike instead of a car? Really nice project by @Toyota, @SaatchiLA, @Deeplocal, and @parlee_z1
B-Reel UK creative director Riccardo Giraldi took this idea and made it a reality, using a Scalextric car, the Arduino electronics platform and a Mindwave headset from Neurosky.
Lovely example of video’s power to tell a story and send a message – particularly when embellished visually.
An ex-Pixar designer has created this beautiful childrens story for the iPad. Luscious.
This is not human-piloted. The vehicles/ball are tracked by an overhead motion capture system and controlled by a pair of computers.
This amazing ball juggling experiment with quadrotors is at the ETH Flying Machine Arena, by Mark Müller, Sergei Lupashin and Raffaello D’Andrea at IDSC, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
http://www.flyingmachinearena.org
The Pool – The Full Story from Nike 6.0 on Vimeo.
Nike took an old swimming pool in Dagenham that was about to be demolished and turned it into a world class BMX park called, simply and brilliantly, The Pool.
Brilliant regeneration project.
A socially kapow’d bluetooth bottle opener that invites your friends over for a beer. Whoever has the most friends attending, gets a free case of Heineken. Nice idea and nice use of Facebook Events in this student initiated project.
