Wow, this is incredible. There’s been quite a lot of buzz on Motionportrait before, but now you can try it.
Usage instructions: click on Change your own face. Upload an image with face straight on and enjoy. It’s a bit creepy, but in a few years it will work perfectly i guess. The singularity is near! Repent!
From their website
Nobody gives away a free physical thing. There’s always a catch. So up front: you have to pay shipping. Other than that, it’s open season.
$100 max per household
You pay shipping
Limit of $100,000 in giveaways for the day
Starts 9AM MST January 7th, 2010
Ends 11PM MST January 7th, 2010 (or when we hit $100k, whichever comes first)
Rainchecks for popular items will be allowed
This is just amazing! There are some really good people out there in this capitalist world. Phew, not all is a down-spiral indexed by Google. So good IxD colleague and stuff lovers, put January 7th 2010 in your calendar.
Thanks Nate!
Check this phone out, it was built in a Linux Platform. I find some very interesting features on it.
Folks, today might be the day when you start to notice how ancient our smartphones have become, even if they only came out in last few months. Blame Else (formerly Emblaze Mobile) for its confusingly-named First Else, a phone “built from scratch” over the last two years and now powered by Access Linux Platform (ALP) 3.0…..
Read more about this post and watch the presentation in engadget
Check the promotional video here
Finally, Windows support! It’s beta stage ATM, but works fine for me.
“What the hell is NodeBox?!?”
It’s a software for creating generative graphics, like Processing, except you really don’t need to know coding to get started.
It generates code in Python, that is editable. It’s fun, fun, fun.
A new startup from Boston (USA) is introducing the litl, a small computer that reduces computer-related frustration. The project was a collaboration between Pentagram, Cooper, Fuseproject and in-house design/engineering at litl. Pentagram has a great post about the work behind the GUI.
Their blog is full on great insights and details about the process of designing the machine and the new OS associated with it.
http://blog.litl.com/2009/11/16/litl-and-computer-frustration/
Longer video on Youtube.
Official website: http://www.litl.com
Want to get a present (presumably) for yourself for Christmas? Go wild, geek out, ‘n have a Processing t-shirt!
… Says the website:
For the first time, we’re selling t-shirts. Profits will fund Processing development. We’ve partnered with Wire & Twine to make this happen. The shirts are hand screened in Oxford, OH, the home of the Processing 1.0 launch in November 2008.
a burger “vending machine”. the guy says the sale has pumped 10 times since he invented the machine.
This video shows how is the system going in Heathrow (the busiest airport in the world) to keep thousands airplanes come and go, could be inspiring to lightCraft mates. Sorry for the crap quality, but no choice.Heathrow airport
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b.a.n.g. lab have made this tool for a cheap (under $30) Motorola phone, that helps people cross borders without getting shot at or arrested. They hacked the GPS of the phone so it’s a simple compass, tells where to find water, the nearest highway and help centers for refugees. Â The website.
Presentation:
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Well, something from Finland. Blobo is a game controller size of a golf-ball that’s soft and light. The player can interact with the controller by moving, squeezing, throwing, spinning or just by keeping it in their hand.
Almost all the information I can find is in finnish, so I need to translate a bit. It connects via Bluetooth, is rechargeable and it measures following things: magnetic field, air pressure, spin, movement and acceleration, force of squeeze, steps and calorie burn. It’s 55euros with 6 games, so pretty cheap. The SDK is available for Windows, Symbian S60 and Java 2 ME (phones).
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Another video after the jump.
This year’s theme is “Excellence in Interaction Designâ€
The competition is open to any individual student or recent graduate (within 1 yr.) who have completed a project they feel exemplifies interaction design excellence.Appropriate submissions can be practical or conceptual so long as they fit this theme of interaction design excellence. Work that is primarily about market research or technological feasibility is not appropriate for submission to this competition.
You can check it out by clicking here
Some basic helpul tips for those who are working or have plans to be working on their portfolios in the near future.
The list here
This makes me remember the early Meng Meng’s explorations in the Komatsu Project.
The cave is comprised of three white walls and a floor, all about 10′ x 10′ in size. Onto each surface is projected a high-resolution, stereoscopic image. A viewer stands in the room wearing polarized 3D glasses — like you might use in a 3D movie — with small markers that stick out a bit from the frames
More info here