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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.

Via Augmented.org

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.

http://www.niketruecity.com/

personal note:

Cool to see the dutch media picking this one up.

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.

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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.

source: today and tomorrow