one hundred and eight / inflatable garbage bags / by Nils Völker
via vimeo.com
2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
countless screws and a microcontroller
2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
countless screws and a microcontroller
"At Tokyo’s Shinagawa Station visitors can now select beverages from a 47-inch touch panel.
An embedded camera will recognize your gender and age, allowing the machine to recommend a beverage suitable to whatever stereotype is attached to your particular circumstances. It will store your purchasing history too, so you can be freaked out by tailored ads every time you use it. 500 more of these units are planned to be installed in and around Tokyo over the next two years, with operating company JR East expecting them to tally up 30 percent more sales than their analog brethren."
And then folks in Germany seriously talk about Google Street View...
More pics here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/japan-takes-vending-machines-to-their-logi...
Found at my favorite http://www.nextnature.net/
"... The Super Mario Bros. game, released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, is not longer bound to the television size and get interactive with a new environment. ... "
Nice one!
"I want to show that people are indeed both repelled and fascinated
by the disgusting transformation of the switches."
well done. Thanks www.nextnature.net, what would I do without you?
Great idea and execution by http://www.garvin.it/ - thanks Gentry for pointing me there.
we're getting there!
via infosthetics.com: "... Bing Destination Maps [bing.com] seems quite interesting as a new way of rendering geographical maps in a more visually simplified, understandable and accessible way. In other words, imagine one can now create a sort of information-optimized summary maps, similar to those you would quickly draw yourself on the back of napkin. ..."
"We've briefed the White House..."
Another proof of "the future is now"...
read it here: http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/first-self-replicating-synthetic-ba...
watch at least until 1:07 - lol - what a poser...
Very good example of 'explainable usage' of AR. And a showcase that it's getting harder to transport the experience someone has interacting with these systems. The better these get, the more 'closed' and 'intimate' the experience will be.
'Societys obsession with video and online gaming has advanced to the point that virtual environments are indistinguishable from physical ones.'
A bit long-winded in these fast times...
Thanks for finding, Peter! http://blog.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/
'...computer malfunction ... could thusly be viewed as a discontinuity in our selves...'
Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/heidegger-tools/
WE TRAVEL ON GRAVEL, DIRT ROAD OR STREET /
I WEAR MY ADIDAS WHEN I ROCK THE BEAT
– My Adidas, Run DMC
nice. as always, thanks to http://www.nextnature.net/
see all of them here: http://nikkigraziano.com/foundfunctions.html
thanks Soren (http://sorendeorlow.posterous.com/)
In his short animation Augmented (Hyper)Reality, Keiichi Matsuda’s offers a glimpse of an alternate universe, with augmented reality cranked up to the next level. But what to think of these kind of slick animations that provide us with either utopian or dystopian visions of our technofuture? ...
read it all at http://www.nextnature.net/2010/02/augmented-hyperreality/
The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.
See the interactive graph here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html
and even wireless... love it!
Design by Matt Richmonds. More info here http://www.stilsucht.de/01/2010/ivictrola-klassischer-sound-aus-dem-ipod/
Robert Hodgin (Flight404) has just posted this week a new portfolio of all his wonderful code projects.
Worth seeing: http://roberthodgin.com/
yep, the future is now - brought to you by German authorities...
