Let’s face it… Kinect hacks continue to be cool. Here’s an elegant one for a music video for the singer BELL, which uses the motion senser and a projector to display elegant designs on her face.
Another Chrome experiment from Google, All Is Not Lost features the band OK Go and members of the dance troupe Pilobolus. Filmed from below a glass floor, bodies move and press against the glass (in seafoam green unitards, no less) to form kaleidoscopic shapes and your personalized inspirational message to Japan.
The online video was first shot in 3D and made possible by HTML5 — hence Google’s connection and endorsement of Chrome as the preferred browser. While it kind of feels like it could have been cooler, the video is reminiscent of the captivating, multi-window viewing experiences of the Wilderness Downtown and Soul-Mirror.
Try it out with your own message: http://www.allisnotlo.st/
Contributed by Francois Grouiller
110 Stories imposes an outline view of the Twin Towers on the NYC skyline using augmented reality.
Based on your location, the app offers a glimpse back of how the towers figured into the cityscape from multiple vantage points. The app also encourages people to comment and share their memories and impressions of the augmented skyline.
The project, from artist Brian August, reached its goal on Kickstarter just in time for the 10 year anniversary of 9/11.
Read more about it here: http://kck.st/nIyEjN
Transform Google Maps into trippy, kalidescopic images reminiscent of the ink blots from Rorschach test.
Check it out here: http://rorschmap.com/
Via Laughing Squid
From wallets that help your spending to hula girls that tweet from your carshare, the work of concept artist John Kestner — who uses APIs to “teach” objects how to react to our everyday lives — could be amazing inspiration for DOOH work.
Contributed by Leila Coffman
A simple, elegant art piece made from illuminated rocker switches honors the roots of computer programming while commenting on how quickly technology seems outdated.
8-Bit Invaders is just a simulation, but seems like a stellar idea to project a video game on building. Making it playable would be even cooler.
via laughing squid
contributed by Sosia Bert
Jean-Christophe Naour’s Kinect Graffiti uses Microsoft’s Kinect to respond to gestures creating real-time light paintings.
via laughingsquid
The Lytro camera makes taking quick snapshots quick again. When you click to take a photo, the camera captures all the light information it can and provides you with a digital file you can edit later.
Born out of founder Ren Ng’s years of research and PhD thesis, this development in digital photography has the potential to transform still shots into more interactive, varied pictures as the user can edit the photo to switch between different points of focus, adjust the light levels, etc.
Essentially, the technology lets you take your photos more quickly, and then play with them for longer. What sounds better than that?
Contributed by Christine Wilson
TheSartorialTwist.com cleverly serves up a random outfit pieced together by strips of three different fashion street scenes.
While the utility factor might not be huge, the delight is definitely there in simply refreshing the page to see a new combination— sometimes scattered, sometimes synchronous, often funny — appear.
