Sega Games on the iPhone
Posted in games / play, innovation on Apr 29th, 2008
Big phat link to PSFK for the news.
Category Archive for 'innovation'
Wow Wii
Posted in collaborate / participate, design, games / play, innovation, interactive on Apr 17th, 2008
Its taken me forever to watch this TED clip, so its no doubt old news to everyone else. Johnny Lee, a human interaction researcher, show’s how the Wii remote can be adapted, at minimal cost, to become a 3d interface for learning and inventive game play.
I like the fact that he’s got a massive [...]
Sunlight on (Google) Earth
Posted in innovation, interactive, social on Apr 17th, 2008
Quick post: Google Earth 4.3 (beta) is now available, not only with more advanced 3d photo-realistic renderings of notable cities and builiding but with the ablility to simulate sunrise to sunset, with the aptly named ‘Sunlight’ feature. Watch this video to get a view..
iBand - Nintendo DS & iPhone tunes
Posted in artists / designers, collaborate / participate, innovation, music, whatever on Feb 22nd, 2008
Can your phone do this?
Talk to me… so if the iPhone wasn’t hacked, cracked and genuinely pushed beyond the realms of its supposed purpose in life - this couldn’t of happened. May we all open our lives and platforms to invention and opportunity!!! It’s Friday, I’ve had a beer - bare with me and get [...]
First SecondLife Documentary bought by HBO
Posted in artists / designers, innovation, whatever on Sep 12th, 2007
A 35-minute feature filmed entirely in Second Life has been sold to HBO. Its entitled ‘Molotov’s Dispatches in Search of the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey’. The video below is an overview of the feature, below that is the trailer.
This cross medium narrative I find extremely inspiring. Second Life inhabitants have been filming/recording their [...]
Burble London: Audience controlled LED balloon installation
Posted in artists / designers, innovation, installations, interactive on Sep 10th, 2007
The Burble is a massive structure reaching up towards the sky, composed of approximately 1000 extra-large helium balloons each of which contains microcontrollers and LEDs that create spectacular patterns of light across the surface of the structure. The public, both audience and performer, come together to control this immense rippling, glowing, bustling ‘Burble’ that sways [...]
Facebook Friendwheel App
Posted in about ben, innovation, social, web / phunk on Jul 20th, 2007
This is a picture of my friend wheel, all the people I’m connected to through Facebook. Great application developed by Thomas Fletcher. There are a number of custom settings you can mess around with - have a play. Go here to get the Facebook Friendwheel application.
Google Maps Street View Demo
Posted in innovation, web / phunk on May 31st, 2007
You cant fail to see the ongoing potential of Google Maps, they’re simply on another planet when it comes to mapping our world. Panoramic image integration is just the beginning…
Concrete screen
Posted in architecture, innovation on Nov 13th, 2006
The screen consists of concrete with embedded optical fibres, arranged as pixels, capable of transmitting natural as well as artificial light. The light-admission points are on the back of the screen where the fibres are positioned. The light, or the picture, will then be displayed in pixels on the front. The light source can be [...]
We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion
Posted in artists / designers, innovation, interactive, web / phunk on Jun 2nd, 2006
The interface of WeFeelFine.org has some subtle references to the Sony Ad with the balls, but thankfully is nothing to do with it. In fact maybe I shouldn’t of even said that… but it was a first impression.
The above image is of the opening interface, named ‘madness’, which is rather apparent as emotions sourced from [...]
I/O Brush: Photographic paintbrush that paints with movement and colour
Posted in artists / designers, games / play, innovation, interactive, photography on Mar 14th, 2006
I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up [...]
Specialized prototype prank…
Posted in cycling, innovation, whatever on Jan 24th, 2006
Gutted. On a search for “cool bikes”, sad search query I know - I unveiled this article on the Venom Line Being Developed by Specialized. For a minute, I thought I’d discovered the future of cycling. Alas I have not.
It turns out that this is a prank originally from November 2004 (always on the pulse [...]
Bobcasting, a world first?
Posted in innovation, podcasts, web / phunk on Jan 19th, 2006
My good friend Dave, of Digital Eskimo, has enabled Senator Bob Brown of the Greens to podcast via a mobile phone. The Eskimo’s did this sometime ago and I really wonder why its taken me so long to post this…
Anyway, we’ve trauled the web to see if there is any other instances of this technique [...]
VoIP Watch: Skypecasting
Posted in innovation, interactive, whatever on Dec 16th, 2005
That means someone in London could in effect Skypecast English Premiere League Football to an ex-pat in the USA. Vice versa someone here in the USA could Skypecast NBA basketball, which has rights deals in other parts of the world, virtually anywhere.
Read full post on VoIP Watch
Social software - Tokyo style
Posted in artists / designers, games / play, innovation, web / phunk on Dec 13th, 2005
Yugo Nakamura latest project has been created for Tokyo FM, its called Honda Sweet Mission - Global Research Show.
The site enables blogging, podcasting, tagging and other social software tools - to connect Tokyo FM’s global audience. Its a very playful interface allowing you to interact with different xml feeds, by country, category and month [...]