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I/O Brush: Photographic paintbrush that paints with movement and colour
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 [...]
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Specialized prototype prank…
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 [...]
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Bobcasting, a world first?
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 [...]
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VoIP Watch: Skypecasting
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
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Social software – Tokyo style
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 [...]
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Synesthetic Cookbook
Can’t figure out what to have for dinner? Hugo Liu, a graduate student at M.I.T.’s Media Lab, has developed a “smart” cookbook that can recommend a dish on the basis of some of the tastes and emotions commonly associated with it. Synesthetic Recipes, a searchable computer database of 60,000 recipes, can’t actually read your mind, [...]
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Top 10 weirdest USB devices
Thanks to Hendo for another fine link, what wonders these little devices are. Check out the top 10 weirdest USB devices ever here.
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How does Ideo do it?
“The secret, it turns out, reduces to one of those touchy-feely terms that make MBAs squirm: “empathy.” In the Ideo universe, great design doesn’t begin with a far-out concept or a way-cool drawing. It begins with a deep and empathic understanding of the human condition. The first step for any Ideo team on any project [...]
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IDEO :: The Ten Faces of Innovation
Tom Kelley is the General Manager of design & innovation agency Ideo. His book The Ten Faces of Innovation looks interesting (i haven’t read it). Over the years, Tom has observed a number of roles that people can play in an organization to foster innovation and new ideas while offering an effective counter to naysayers. [...]
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We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion