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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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.
Most of us are familiar with the current technologies and buzz words of the Web — various browsers, APIs, HTML5, WebGL, etc. But how many know how we got here?
The Evolution of the Web beautifully charts this history. An interactive timeline, it invites you to poke around, browse screen shots of antiquated programs, and click to learn more about different technologies.
Awesome free tool for learning how to code in Javascript! http://www.codecademy.com/
Read Marc Saporta’s Composition No. 1 on shuffle with the novel’s new iPad iteration.
It doesn’t seem like this would be that relaxing of a reading experience, but it’s cool that the technology helps achieve the work’s original intention to be read non-linearly.
Via Gizmodo
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)
A fun round-up of wearable electronics ranging from utterly silly to sleek and innovative:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/06/is-the-rise-of-wearable-electronics-finally-here.html (via MAKE)
Also, another great collection here from Fast Company:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1773462/smart-couture-wearable-tech-gets-wearable
The South Korean version of the supermarket chain Tesco installed virtual stores in subway stations as a way to provide more shopping opportunities for busy, smartphone-handy commuters. Shoppers browse 2D displays of groceries, scan a QR code to select items and complete their purchase all on their phone. The supermarket then delivers their goods by the time they arrive at home.
Watch a case study here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJVoYsBym88
In this case, mobile is not only affecting shopping habits in stores, but also allowing for the whole shopping experience to be recreated virtually and on-the-go.
Contributed by James Taylor
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8-Bit Invaders is just a simulation, but seems like a stellar idea to project a video game on building. Making it playable would be even cooler.
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contributed by Sosia Bert
Jean-Christophe Naour’s Kinect Graffiti uses Microsoft’s Kinect to respond to gestures creating real-time light paintings.
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