a Masters student at the Bartlett School of Architecture in the UK, created this short film called “Augmented (hyper) Reality: Domestic Robocop” to show us what the world might look like in a future home embedded with augmented reality interfaces.
Filled with advertising panels that come to life, the user’s concept kitchen is something out of “Alice In Wonderland” with talking appliances and portals to outside landscapes right at your fingertips. If this kaleidoscope vision is indeed the future, we may all need to increase our internal RAM.
A new iPhone app that turns your voice into an instrument in real time. You sing into the iPhone, and it turns your voice into a guitar, a bass, synth, etc.
The entire song in the video is created with just a voice singing into the iPhone.
The 30-minute film, titled I’m Here, was shown at the Sundance Film Festival as part of its shorts programme. Jonze was apparently given creative freedom by the vodka brand to make the film.
“It was a pretty incredible opportunity,” he says. “They didn’t give me any requirements to make a movie that had anything to do with vodka. They just wanted me to make something that was important to me, and let my imagination take me wherever I wanted. And it wasn’t like working with some huge corporation where I had to meet with committees of people.
It was just a small group, and it seemed like creativity and making something that affected them emotionally was the only thing that really mattered to them. I got to make my first love story. It’s about the relationship between two robots living in Los Angeles.”
Nike unlocks into the hidden reaches of European cities.
Nike worked with AKQA to create the True City iPhone App, which is free for download on iTunes starting today. The app, equipped with geo-tagging features and full social media integration, gives users insight to the best parts of six European cities–London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Milan, Paris and Barcelona–through the eyes of local tastemakers. Each city has a group of designated contributors whose M.O. is to “Make the Hidden Invisible” for the app’s community. Civilian contributors are also invited to add their own finds, and the best will have the opportunity to become join the team of Nike insiders. The QR-code enabled app also gives users the chance to unlock additional Coded info in each city.
Digg’s Kevin Rose is the newest investor in this Square iPhone payment system that we’ve been seeing lately, and as you can see above, he’s demo’ed the unit for everyone over on YouTube. It works as we’ve heard: there’s just an addon that you plug into the iPhone’s headphone jack, and then an app takes information from the swiper, and transmits it out for an actual credit card payment, with a finger doing the signature. The app, as Kevin says, will even upload GPS information, so you can make sure that payments are happening in the right place.
A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.
Credits:
CG
Modelling – Texturing – Illumination – Rendering| Alex Roman
POST
Postproduction & Editing| Alex Roman
MUSIC
Sequenced, Orchestrated & Mixed by Alex Roman (Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP)
Sound Design by Alex Roman
Based on original scores by:
.Michael Laurence Edward Nyman. (The Departure)
.Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns. (Le Carnaval des animaux)
Directed by Alex Roman
Done with 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.
“La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel” is the title of an installation by Michel de Broin. The largest mirror ball ever made was suspended from a construction crane 50 meters above the ground to render the starry sky to the citizens of Paris for one night in the Jardin du Luxembourg during the Nuit Blanche event.
Last week, F.A.T. introduced the Graffiti Markup Language (GML), a new XML file type specifically designed for archiving graffiti tags. Of course it doesn’t make sense to only archive those tags, you should also be able to reproduce them. And that’s exactly what Golan Levin and Jeremy Ficca did. They wrote a small tool to translate the .GML files from 000000book.com into instructions for their industrial ABB IRB-4400 robot arm. If they now could place his robot on a truck like Evan Rothsuggested … Here you can find some more details about the Robotagger.
This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project
initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on
handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for
digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners
at BERG.
The concept aims to capture the essence of magazine reading, which
people have been enjoying for decades: an engaging and unique reading
experience in which high-quality writing and stunning imagery build up
immersive stories.
The concept uses the power of digital media to create a rich and
meaningful experience, while maintaining the relaxed and curated
features of printed magazines. It has been designed for a world in
which interactivity, abundant information and unlimited options could
be perceived as intrusive and overwhelming.
The purpose of publishing this concept video is first and foremost to
spark a discussion around the digital reading experience in general,
and digital reading platforms in particular. Thus, we would be more
than happy to hear what you have to say regarding the concept and
ideas expressed in the video: the magazine reading experience, digital
browsing, text versus images, as well as hear about your own digital
reading experiences and thoughts. We are all ears.
