Don’t Fear the Internet Tutorials

Continuing the Internet self-education theme, “Don’t Fear the Internet” is another great resource bank of instructional videos that explain how the Internet works and teach some basic coding.

The project was cooked up by designers and it, in their words, will “help demystify html and css coding so you can prettify your blogs and quit asking your nerd friends for freebies!”

Check it out: http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/

CodeAcademy

Awesome free tool for learning how to code in Javascript!  http://www.codecademy.com/

Flixmaster

Introducing Flixmaster, an HTML-5 video editor/player that could enable new ways to experience digital video online.

Since it allows users to produce online video content with a simple drag and drop system, this could be fun technology to explore for digital storytelling projects.

Contributed by Ralph Paone

Google Search By Image

Much like TinEye, Google has launched their version of search-by-image.

Contributed by Ricardo Hieber

Jam3 – Bjork

Who doesn’t like Bjork?
Our friends at Jam3 http://www.jam3media.com/ who showed off their new site (coming soon) at FITC (its pretty insane) have been busy working with Bjork on her new site which just launched http://bjork.com/.
Its the first phase of her Biophilia project and it will continue growing over time.
HTML5 and they made their own 3D engine to parse the info coming out of Google Sketchup where it was designed by the Parisian artists M/M.

Editor’s Note: This is an excellent use and example of HTML5 + 3D being used in a site.  HTML5 works on mobile and iPad as opposed to Flash, which does not work on i-anything-mobile.

http://bjork.com/

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim J2theA

The Wheels Of Steel: An Ode To Turntables

Ever since we’ve seen the extinction of analog audio formats, we’ve been spending time and energy reminiscing and attempting to replicate the look and feel of the classic turntable. There have been tons of projects that will take your MP3s and filter their audio to sound more like the cassette tape or record you remember listening to as a kid and, this blog has covered a great deal of them. The fad isn’t going away anytime soon and if you’ve been keeping up, most recently a project, turntable.fm has been growing out of control (it’s a ton of fun and you should try it out).

wheelsofsteel.net is another great turntable experiment that you should really check out, done by Scott Schiller. He wrote an extensive article on how he went about designing and developing the HTML/Javascript (that’s right – no flash) project here http://www.schillmania.com/content/entries/2011/wheels-of-steel/, and it’s an extremely interesting read. Check it out!

What will the Internet be like in 2015?

In only 4 years, what advances will we see for the Internet? These great infographics and video make some powerful predictions.

Contributed by Sosia Bert

Via Fast Co Design

3D Teleconferencing

Using four Kinect sensors and some heavy duty realtime processing, 3D videoconferencing has been set up at University of North Carolina.

3D is the latest gimmick when it comes to watching TV, but this is something beyond novelty. Apart from making the “tele” part seem more realistic, the system can use “mixed reality” to track eyes in 3D space. This opens up the door to more serious applications not just about how we’re perceived, but about how we blend our natural communication methods with digital ones.

http://www.vizworld.com/2011/06/amazing-kinect-driven-3d-telepresence-system/

Contributed by Kevin Jeong

Talking with your Hands: Control your iPhone remotely

Imagine using an iPhone in the palm of your hand. Now, do it again but put the phone away.

Using a depth perceptive camera, researchers are able to allow people to use their iPhones remotely. People can tap their palms, swipe or perform other gestures captured by a depth-sensitive video camera. The signals are transmitted to the iPhone using a WiFi radio and the actions are performed in realtime.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37611/

Imagine allowing people to use a personal phone or public kiosk by interacting with either themselves (palm touch) or more subtle means, such as voice or other “natural” gestures. We are no longer tethered to the device.

Contributed by Kevin Jeong

What’s all the Hype?

With Hype 1.0, you can create impressive animations and interactive sites in HTML5 without any actual code.

The brainchild of two developers formerly at Apple, Hype was developed as an alternate to Flash. More on their story here: http://bit.ly/mMIFHl