MarionetteBot
Taking the real world into digital back into the real world with a mix of true digital and true analogue technology – installations don’t get much better than this IMHO. Also, it’s another twist on how to explore your wardrobe…
Great coders are today’s rockstars
It’s not often that I quote will.i.am and actually, I can remember the last time that I did (but weirdly, I’m not allowed to talk about it) however when he said ‘Great coders are today’s rockstars’ in this short film,…
Quadrocopter Pole Acrobatics
Now this is slightly scary and crazy bonkers. It is brilliant that there are people given the time to work on projects such as these. There’s a comment on YouTube that says ‘We would never even have a chance if…
Tip o’ the hat to the Modern UI
The new Windows 8 interface commonly referenced to as the Windows Modern UI is inspired by various trends and design patterns from over the last century. Modern UI tips it’s own hat to the way finding graphics that you see…
A small demonstration
Love the way this ends. Windows 8 has a completely re-designed user interface. Microsoft have taken everything that’s great about Windows 7 and improved on it for Windows 8 adding greater security, improved performance and cloud based services. The old…
A short film called Clouds shot using Kinect and DSLRs about code, culture and the future of visualization.
Clouds: beta from Deepspeed media on Vimeo.
Bonkers – SoundWave: Using the Doppler Effect to Sense Gestures
Gestures are becoming an increasingly popular means of interacting with computers. However, it is still relatively costly to deploy robust gesture-recognition sensors in existing mobile platforms. SoundWave is a real-time sensing technique that leverages a speaker and a microphone to…
Kinect and shopping carts. wi-GO and Whole Foods
Two similar projects here but with slightly different objectives. I saw the Whole Foods demo recently and it reminded me of the wi-GO project that surfaced about a year earlier… wi-GO is a project that seeks to unite the technological…
Help me Obiwan, you’re my only hope – The Holoflector
Those clever chaps over at Microsoft Research have too much time on their hands. This augmented reality mirror and LCD screen work together to give us that Star Wars holographic projection experience we’ve been wishing to experience since we first…