Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator built by The Gadget Show – A must see for any philosophy class
“Andy looks so at home…”
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors
imagine what good – and bad – things you can do with these.
found by @BLugger
Urbanflow – building an operating system for everyday life | By Nordkapp.fi & Urbanscale.org
via Inventing Interactive, found by Hannah
Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs
Read all about it here: http://kevinkarsch.com/publications/sa11.html
via @petapixel, @_skive_ and @junkafarian
‘Artificial leaf’ developed at MIT makes fuel from sunlight
via TC – read about it here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/artificial-leaf-0930.html
AlphaDog Prototyp – another frightening robot by Boston Dynamics
Remember BigDog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ&feature=relmfu)? Here’s the update…
Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies
“Observers viewed the movie at top left while fixating on a central dot. The averaged high posterior (AHP) reconstructions are shown at left (see main text and Figure S2) for all three subjects S1, S2, and S3. The movies at right are the seven clips with the highest posterior probability, shown in order from most (left) to least (right) probable. The leftmost clip in this group is the MAP reconstruction, the single clip from the sampled prior that had the highest posterior probability. Note that all clips in the reconstructions are updated at 1 Hz, the BOLD signal sampling rate. The AHP reconstructions recover both the structure of the scenes and smooth changes over time (for example, see the spreading of the inkblot and the elephants moving across the scene).”
the freaking future is now – again…
Bird flight deciphered by Festo SmartBird – genius and beautiful.
I’ve watched the videos of SmartBird some time ago and simply loved it – but seeing it flying over my head yesterday in Edinburgh at TEDGlobal is something different. I admire the team and Festo for making this happen.
Building Electronics and Lasers Atom by Atom
full story here: http://t.co/ROPnrC7 (via TC)
DIY robot is the brooding teenager you’ve always wanted to slap / Engadget
found via Joshua Davis
Experience Human Flight / Skydiving in Slow Motion – WOW / RT @bang1000
IBM Watson: The Face of Watson – see Joshua Davis in (inter)face heaven – like designing HAL today…
Above Everything Else HD – Mind explodingly realistic CGI by Alex Roman
This tech exists for some years but the access to it gets cheaper and cheaper – to create new realities that you can’t distinguish from the “old” one. How about applying this to augmented reality concepts?
(via Boing Boing)
Augmented City 3D by Keiichi Matsuda / RT @superfab
3D Video Capture with Kinect by Oliver Kreylos
watch it beyond 1 minute and you get amazed.
lots of hacks to come – great!
Media surfaces: Incidental Media by Berg and Dentsu / RT @axel_unger
good article about the good work found here:
Imagining an augmented reality future that’s not an advertising hell
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/03/imagining-an-augment.html
FRITZ KAHN – MASCHINE MENSCH / MAN MACHINE / wonderful info graphics from the early 20 century.
Biologie des Bratendufts (1926) (Biology of the smell of roasted meat)
check out his other graphics – probably best to buy the new book (http://www.fritz-kahn.com/book.php?site=book&lang=en)
Found via SpOn / einestages (http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/15861/im_inneren_der…
Ghosts in the Hollow by Jim Lo Scalzo – abandoned mine towns in the US
good reminder that the next nature will be the old one.
Found at Glaserei – you know who you are…
one hundred and eight / inflatable garbage bags / by Nils Völker
2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
countless screws and a microcontroller
Smart vending machines in the streets show that Big Brother is being naturally accepted in a pixel consuming society.
“At Tokyo’s Shinagawa Station visitors can now select beverages from a 47-inch touch panel.
An embedded camera will recognize your gender and age, allowing the machine to recommend a beverage suitable to whatever stereotype is attached to your particular circumstances. It will store your purchasing history too, so you can be freaked out by tailored ads every time you use it. 500 more of these units are planned to be installed in and around Tokyo over the next two years, with operating company JR East expecting them to tally up 30 percent more sales than their analog brethren.”
And then folks in Germany seriously talk about Google Street View…
More pics here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/japan-takes-vending-machines-to-their-logi…
Found at my favorite http://www.nextnature.net/
Super Mario Bros. by Andreas Heikaus. Nice matching of CG elements into live-action footage.
“… The Super Mario Bros. game, released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, is not longer bound to the television size and get interactive with a new environment. … ”
Nice one!
the aesthetics of disgust / disgusting switch installation : Katrin Baumgarten
“I want to show that people are indeed both repelled and fascinated
by the disgusting transformation of the switches.”
well done. Thanks www.nextnature.net, what would I do without you?
crossroads (what to do) – video by GARVIN NOLTE – GPS nav system hell
Great idea and execution by http://www.garvin.it/ – thanks Gentry for pointing me there.
Humanize tech: Automatic Napkin Sketching of Maps by Bing Destination Map
we’re getting there!
via infosthetics.com: “… Bing Destination Maps [bing.com] seems quite interesting as a new way of rendering geographical maps in a more visually simplified, understandable and accessible way. In other words, imagine one can now create a sort of information-optimized summary maps, similar to those you would quickly draw yourself on the back of napkin. …”
