Gastro Surplus Panini Digital

Musical House

Katy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:05:48 +0000

Roof-mounted sensors translate light, rain, wind and thunder inputs to generate an impromptu musical score.

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Drawing its sounds directly from the elements, no day’s synthesizer-style music is the same — who knew lightning could sound like reverb and that moonlight purrs?

Another take on a musical house from the artist Swoon: http://kck.st/lDCdCT

Via Laughing Squid

Finding your way…

Katy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:47:04 +0000

Two mobile apps for navigating the city in two very different ways:

Embark – maps plus some more hand-holding (i.e. alerts, underground access)

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Via Laughing Squid

Serendipitor – maps plus simple instructions to follow along the way — for the more whimsical commuter

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The Expressive Web

James — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:15:06 +0000

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

Uncover Your World

Friends — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:21:42 +0000

Grow Interactive worked with Google to concept and develop Uncover Your World, a lovely mobile experience for Google’s Search App.

To build the ad experience, Grow modeled an entire “world” with 3D technology and used a 3D printer to bring it to life. Check out the making-of video below:

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You can explore the mobile site here: http://www.uncoveryourworld.com/

Contributed by Mia Ruiz-Escoto

MapCodes: Sexier, More Useful QR Codes

Katy — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:50:14 +0000

You may think their time has passed, but what if QR Codes were less ugly and more useful?

Designer Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino set out to improve this troubled medium with Mapcodes, a hyper-linking system that uses fragments of maps — instead of indecipherable blocks — to link to full maps.

http://designswarm.com/blog/2011/09/mapcodes/

Although still in prototype/idea territory, it’s refreshing to see more user-friendly (and beautiful) graphic languages being developed for connecting digital content to physical locations.

Contributed by Ralph Paone

Fühl-o-meter – Public Face

James — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:05:27 +0000

Fühl-o-meter assesses the sentiment of peoples faces’ and projects the ambient mood of the city through a smiley face atop a tower.

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via laughing squid

If this then that

James — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:35:54 +0000

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.

Make Real Beats

Katy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:32:59 +0000

Collect sounds from everyday life and use this app to make music with them!

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Via Laughing Squid

Circle of Trust

Katy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:23:46 +0000

This project from Brazilian company D3 uses the new Google+ API to visualize the closeness of your circles on Google+. Curious how many people in your circles looped you into theirs as well? About how many people only you’ve circled, or who the lurkers on the outside are who’ve only circled you?

Give it a try here: http://www.d3.do/labs/circleoftrust/index.php

Aside from providing a new tool for social network investigation, the Circle of Trust visuals are beautiful and it’s exciting to see what the first experiments manipulating Google+ API yield.

Contributed by Sergio Mugnaini

Inkling

Katy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:05:11 +0000

Attention all creative directors who never bothered to learn Photoshop: here’s an amazing new Wacom tool that transforms your sketches into digital files.

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Contributed by Collin Whitehead

Via Discovery News