Google and Carnegie Mellon researchers team up on cloud-powered facial recognition that would enable you to take a photo of a complete stranger and track their real identity in mere minutes
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Brilliant timelapse of MakerBot’s 3D-printed cover for Steven Johnson’s latest gem, The Innovator’s Cookbook – a compendium of essays and conversations with big thinkers on the importance of serendipity and other ingredients of creativity
Skrillex @ Petco Park
Video captured by a fan recording a performance by Skrillex. What is impressive here is not the projection mapping (which is great, and more to see here), but the robot figure in the background that looks like it is DJing in the enormous booth.
It is actually mimicking the performer’s moves through infra-red real-time motion tracking.
Arm Race: Your Wristwatch Is Your Next Web Portal
The wristwatch was nearly killed off by the cell phone revolution, but with the rise of the smartphone it’s about to evolve into something more powerful than it’s ever been.
Full Story: FastCompany
Japanese studio nendo has designed the ‘data clip’ a USB key in the shape of a paperclip. The small data storage device can clip to a stack of documents, business cards or just keep all your important files together. The design aims to present a new relationship between daily life and digital data.
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iPhone/Photography: The iPhone SLR Mount. Yes, it’s really real.
This case-adapter combo lets you mount your Canon EOS or Nikon SLR lenses to your iPhone 4 giving your phone powerful depth of field and manual focus.
Telephoto, wide angle, macro, or your fixed-fifty lenses all attach to this mount giving you a full range of lenses at your iPhone lovin’ fingertips.
- The iPhone SLR Mount Turns an iPhone Into a DSLR (laughingsquid.com)
- iPhone SLR Mount (joshspear.com)
Field via Creative Applications
field is an abstract audiovisual work that generates itself through real-time camera input. Brightness saturation and color are interpreted, and translated into a constructed grid. The image plays the sound.
Technology/Gaming: You are now among the initiated.
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery is on iPad right the heck now. iPhone & iPod Touch available in April 2011.
S&S EP is a 21st century interpretation of the archetypical old school videogame adventure, designed exclusively for Apple’s touchtronic machinery.
It’s a mix of laid-back exploration, careful investigation & mysterious musical problem-solving occasionally punctuated by hard-hitting combat encounters. S:S&S EP is an unusual genre-bending effort with an emphasis on sound, music & audiovisual style that has been positioned as ‘a brave experiment in Input Output Cinema’.
S&S EP has been recently described as ”… an unlikely mix of Zelda and art house cinema. The game is equal parts Robert E. Howard, Shigeru Miyamoto, Tim Schaefer, with some David Lynch thrown in for good measure — but there is more to S&S than these inspirations.” (link)
- Hauntingly beautiful fun: the story of iPad’s Sword & Sworcery (arstechnica.com)
Technology: Immaterials: light painting WiFi
Immaterials: light painting WiFi film by Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen.
This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four-metre tall measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting.
Music/Technology: A passive music selection system that plays music based solely on your face
Automatic DJ creates party/venue playlists tailored directly to people who walk through the door. A camera at the door uses facial recognition to identify each person’s Facebook profile. Combining data from Facebook likes and users’ linked Hunch data, Automatic DJ is able to capture specific tracks from the Echo Nest’s expansive database of musical data tied to songs. These recommendations then fuel a dynamic Spotify playlist that can be streamed during the event
