Simpler Flexible Displays
“To create images, the researchers used a red or infrared laser to quickly scan across the screen, from either in front or behind, causing different parts to fluoresce in sequence to produce a fast-moving image. This is similar to the way that a cathode-ray tube uses an electron beam to make images. In a demonstration, the researchers made a cartoon image move around on their screen.”
Technology Review
Combine Your Brix Mobile Phone for Bigger Screen View
“A personal multimedia mobile phone, if joined with a BRIX of some other person, can be viewed on a bigger screen of different dimensions and also enables you to make conversations. BRIX is designed with bricks having 1:2 rates and can be combined with several BRIXs.”
Tuvie
Interactive light: How was you day darling?
“It is a small object (actually half a ping pong ball), interacting with its owner and environment (and being pretty boring without interaction). The object permanently aggregates light samples (i.e. it measures the every second and stores the average every some seconds). If you take it into your hand it notices the raise in temperature and tells you how it experienced the day (i.e. playing back the light levels of the day in time lapse).”
MAKE
Evolving walking shapes
“A mesmerizing video that shows computer generated geometric shapes that have evolved to walk in all sorts of crazy ways. The shapes are generated using the Darwin@Home software. Some of them resemble young children just learning to walk or crawl. The final “beast” is particularly elegant.”
Kottke
Obama ‘08 iPhone App Is Grassroots Gadgety Perfection
“It sorts your contacts by battleground states and turns them into a checklist, making it easy, and almost obligating, to harass your loved ones to vote O. (Worth noting for tinfoil types: It does keep track of how many people you call, but it’s totally anonymous.) It finds local events and Obama news using GPS, constantly updated. And it delivers more video highlights and newsreels than you’ll be able to stand (though videos were kinda crashy for me). There is some hucksterism, yes, like a dedicated button to call and make a donation—it makes it easier than ever, which is part of the power here. Also it’s a campaign app, what do you expect?”
Gizmodo
Designing a desktop alternative in Milan
“The project - named Itsme - is run by a spinoff of the Bicocca University, which has the sole objective of designing a radically new personal computer concept that is able to easily handle the vast amounts of information and relations, that current desktops and laptops have difficulties with. The team involved wants to replace the desktop and folder metaphor, as it is not capable of managing the complexity of relations and interconnected histories, with a new one based on the concept of stories and venues. “
Core77
For College Recruiting, Let’s Go to the Video, but Without the Tape
“Seeing a YouTube video of the 10-year-old dribbling phenom Garrett Anderson prompted Jashaun to ask his father, Julio, to make a video of him. Jashaun’s daily four-hour workout has since received almost a quarter-million views on YouTube. The clip spurred a local news station to do a special on Jashaun.”
NYTimes.com
‘ex-îles’ by electronic shadow at the biennale of contemporary art, seville
“ex-îles’ is an interactive installation which consists of a 5 by 2 meter,
20 cm deep pool filled with luminous water and a numerical extension on the internet. physical water is triggered into motion by a water pump that projects interactive images, as well as sounds, created by real water. two islands of light are located at either end of the pool. one represents a ‘real’ island and is located on the ground, while another situated in the pool is interpreted as a ‘virtual’ one. as visitors enter the space, they produce a natural luminous shadow which appears swimming across the pool. this silhouette leaves an illuminated line from one island to the other. the line indicates the presence of the visitor and corresponds to the course taken by the luminous shadow in the water.”
Designboom
Insurance co. testing brain fitness software on older drivers
“The Allstate insurance company is testing a program where drivers over 50 play a videogame designed to improve their driving abilities and reduce the number of accidents. According to a Chicago Tribune article, the software exercises visual processing speed and precision. If successful, the company may offer discounts to customers who go through the training.”
Boing Boing
Movies: Major Studios Helping to Pay For Huge Digital Projector Upgrade in Theaters
“The five major studios involved will help out by paying a “digital print fee” of about $800 to $1,000 per film, which is about how much it cost to send out physical prints. By doing so they’ll help offset the billion dollar bill the theaters will be stuck with when upgrading all of their projectors. This means we’ll be seeing more films shown digitally, as well as more films shown in digital 3D, a gimmick that you’ll learn to loathe soon enough.”
Gizmodo
