How to 3d Print

A look inside the process.

Data Viz Libraries Galore

Here’s a great collection of Data Viz libraries – mostly javascript – for techies or as a source of inspiration for anyone on what’s out there!

http://selection.datavisualization.ch/

Playing Tetris on a Building

Some folks at MIT hacked a building to play Tetris on the side of it.

via laughing squid

Frogger Using Real-time 5th Ave Traffic

5th Ave Frogger is a hacked version of Frogger pulling in real-time 5th Ave traffic as game data. If you’re in New York this weekend, you can play.

via laughing squid

Nubot – A Video Chat Robot Doll

Nubot is a doll ready to host smartphone video chats via Skype.

The remote user can control the doll’s body gestures (wave, bow, turn) giving them more of a physical presence.

The folks at Nuuo that developed Nubot use it to have teleconferences between their offices.

We’ve seen a more mobile, albeit less cute, telepresence robot named Texai in the past.

Car Pong Anyone?

Hold the beer and check out BBDO Germany’s Smart eBall installation for the third generation Smart car.
Cars play pong against each other to showcase the road responsiveness of this next gen version of the car.

A field guide to web apps

An interactive book of guidelines for designing web apps:

http://www.html5rocks.com/webappfieldguide/toc/index/

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim

Frisbee Rush – Mobile to Desktop/TV Game

Unit9 premiered a new gesture-based, multiplayer, mobile-to-desktop synced game called Frisbee Rush at a few weeks back and are now finishing the app to be released in the coming weeks. More details on vimeo.

The Expressive Web

Adobe’s The Expressive Web demos the emerging capabilities that html5 and css3 deliver.

If this then that

If this then that puts the internet to work for you. The free service allows users to set up a number of ‘recipes’ that fit the structure: if this happens, then do that. For instance, if rain is in the forecast, then send a text notification or if there’s a new post on Craigslist for a certain item, then send an email. Simple utility.