Go Right – A Supercut of Classic Video Games

We’ve gamed a long way from two dimensions.

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Playing Tetris on a Building

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

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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.

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Playbutton – Wearable Buttons You Can Listen To

Playbutton is a wearable button containing an album or a mix that you can plug your headphones into to listen.

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.

Light-painting wifi

This project illuminates the flow of invisible wifi networks. A wifi measuring rod lights up depending on the strength of wifi signals, and long-exposure photographs capture the light’s as the rod moves through space.

The way the wind blows

A beautiful visualization of surface wind patterns over the U.S.: http://hint.fm/wind/

Cinemagrams

Cinemagrams are the new GIFs — get them before a creative asks you about them!

http://cinemagram.tumblr.com/

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim

Digital rug

Prototype of a digital rug that changes shapes as you walk over it.

Contributed by Ellie Hardy

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.