Using Kinect, Romain Dumaine controls sound with gestures with an aim to enhance interaction between a DJ and the crowd.
Kinecthacks.com showcases other kinect/sound experiments.
Keiichi Matsuda imagines what it would be like when digital layers of information converge with the physical environment – no device required. (Best viewed in 3D if you have 3D glasses handy)
Jean-Christophe Naour’s Kinect Graffiti uses Microsoft’s Kinect to respond to gestures creating real-time light paintings.
via laughingsquid
Toronto Tourism has created a “cheating wall” where visitors can see via video screens into Montreal, and vice versa.
Equipped with video and audio, it’s a live portal enabling people to even chat with their counterparts in the other city.
PBS explores ways to adapt classroom education for kids growing up in a digital world.
Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media – New Learners Of The 21st Century.
Is there more potential for AR on tablets?
http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/05/17/a-little-augmented-reality-check-from-metaio/
This is a clever idea.
Introducing The Lynx Stream — A Mobile App to capture and record unforgettable nights out. The Lynx Stream collects every video, picture, text, tweet, check-in and status update a group of friends makes to produce an automatic Stream of the night and highlight video, which can be watched and shared online.
Find out more and download Lynx Stream for free
http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/prne/unilever/48911/
Contributed by Joshua Spanier
Google has unveiled a new product, the Chromebook, a web-only laptop-like computer.
Read about it:http://www.google.com/chromebook/
Or watch the cutey-cute video that gives the Chromebook a voice made of plucked strings:
Visa is working on a product coming in Fall of this year to make digital payments easier, using an “e-wallet”.
How this will actually work is somewhat mysterious at the moment, but it will simplify online payments with a single click, and will also support NFC (Near Field Communications) payments for in-person transactions by allowing people to wave their NFC-enabled phones over a PayWave station.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1752776/visa-is-making-the-e-wallet-a-real-thing
Neurowear is a Japanese fashion company that concepts around the idea of the “Augmented Human Body.”
They have created a pair of wearable feline ears that sense brain activity and respond to your emotions.
If the wearer is concentrating, they stand up. When relaxed, the ears lie down.
Bizarre but fascinating. What other kinds of interactive devices could respond to brain waves?
http://www.refinery29.com/cat-ear-headbands-that-move-when-you-feel
