Nike+ Paint with your Feet

This innovative software uses Nike+ GPS data to create stunning custom visuals. Tracking a runner’s speed and style, the software produces abstract maps and visualizations of runs throughout the city. At a lunch event for Nike+2 City Pack series, participants played with the software and printed images of their runs as posters and as designs on custom Nike shoe boxes.

Via YesYesNo

Visualize Information Spreading Over Social Networks

See how information propagates on the web.

Done for NYT stories but the underlying code can be used by anyone.

http://nytlabs.com/projects/cascade.html

Contributed by Gareth Kay

Objects Augmented with Real-Time Contextual Data

DisplayContent is a thought-provoking augmented reality proof of concept to come out of the Pachube International Internet of Things Hackathon.

via fastcompany

Animated Data Visualization Rendered In-Browser

This data visualization of civilian casualties in Afghanistan shows what web browsers can render without the use of plugins. In the words of the Developer and Designer, George Michael Brower:

That this visualization can be viewed in-browser is a testament to the promise of modern web technologies such as WebGL, HTML5 and CSS3, all of which were leveraged in this piece. As browsers adopt support for these standards, developers and their audience will enjoy fewer barriers to rich experiences, hopefully increasing the visibility and appreciation of code as art. Thanks to Ricardo Cabello for three.js as well as Chris Lauritzen and Jono Brandel.

Contributed by James Craig

Evolution of Web Design

Another Kinect Art Piece

More artists are using XBox Kinect hacks to create stunning art based around people.

Photographer Audrey Penven captured the patterns of infrared light produced by the Kinect and the results are beautiful.

http://laughingsquid.com/audrey-penven-reveals-the-hidden-beauty-of-microsofts-kinect/

Contributed by James Taylor

Holy Mobile, Batman

Some great mobile stats:

This is a cool info graph, but one stat has actually changed. Android is the #1 OS as of February this year (whoot):

Mobile internet will pass desktop in a hot minute

This is the current Android fragmentation (right now building to 2.0 and higher is the norm):

Also don’t forget that there is iOS fragmentation, so you need to test on devices that have not been updated to the latest OS.

Android is making a KILLING:

NFC is coming to a phone near you real soon… (better than RFID because it communicates both ways, not just a reader):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk5mUdeEF8c

http://vimeo.com/19191571

Contributed by Collin Whitehead

Data Visualization/Game Design from Bloom.io

From former Stamen and Barbarian Group people comes Bloom.io, a new startup in San Francisco focused on data visualization with game design.

http://bloom.io/

And some of their products:

http://cartagr.am/

http://fizz.bloom.io/

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim

Fabricate Yourself Using Kinect and a 3D Printer

The XBOX Kinect is spawning lots of fun and creative hacks, including this one – making a small plastic version of people as seen by the hardware.

http://www.creativeapplications.net/openframeworks/fabricate-yourself-openframeworks-kinect/

Painting with Light to Visualize Wifi

An art project that shows wifi strength with a bar of lights moved through real space.

http://flowingdata.com/2011/02/27/painting-with-light-to-show-wifi-networks/