One of the design objects I hate in life are remote controls. Most of them look like they’re on steroids, big, plastic, bulbous and just well…ugly – unfortunately I have about 4 of them! Well I thought it was about time I found a way to get rid of them and rather than replacing them [...]
Media artist Toshio Iwai and Yamaha have collaborated to design a new digital musical instrument for the 21st century, TENORI-ON. A 16×16 matrix of LED switches allows everyone to play music intuitively, creating a “visible music” interface. Apparently they’re about £600 – I want one!
We have just aquired a Nintendo Wii for the office (purely for research purposes of course!) and we’re loving it! Wii Sports is great! Bowling and Golf are cool and 4 player tennis is excellent – especially on the projector. But I also really like the avatar creator (also known as the Mii Editor) – [...]
This is pretty mad – I’m sure some clever people will find some interesting ways to apply this technology in the near future… With Kameraflage, now you’ll be able to plant subliminal messages on T-shirts, movies and billboards that can only be seen with digital cameras. This context-sensitive display technology, developed by Sarah Logie and [...]
Just stumbled across a site called InviteShare. It’s a site that kinda does what it says on the tin…let’s you share invites for sites that are in private beta. Trying to get beta invites can be a frustrating experience as some of you will know too well, so this is a really nice idea! So [...]
This looks pretty crazy!
The Macbook and Macbook Pro both have motion sensors in them to control the hardrive and other things when it’s moved about. Well some guys have been making use of this feature and writing funky little programs that do various tricks. Here are a couple of examples… Bubblegym is a computer game controlled by tilting [...]