Thursday 31 December 2009
The Greatest Domino Effect Ever
Great Greek Tragedy represented by dominos
Then in now - Conecting the past with the present
A brilliant technique where the past merges with the present bring to reality the time Gap. This visualization of time is a powerful way to realise the essence of time and the how architecture is a stage for the decades that pass one after the other.
Corpus - Human Body Museum - Netherlands
CORPUS is an innovative museum with inovative and inventive architecture. It is a journey through the human body during which the visitor can see, and hear feel how the human body works and what roles healthy life, healthy food, and plenty of exercise plays. CORPUS offers a variety of information and provides education and entertainment with this journey as well as a vast number of permanent and variable exhibitions.
CORPUS has been realised in a 35-meter high transparent building with the contours of the human body projecting from it. The eye-catching building is situated along the A44 highway between Amsterdam and The Hague.
Great Short Animation - Muzorama by Muzorama Team
This short film is a very creative piece. The french creative scene show that is still very alive and it has a lot to offer to the world if the world is willing to cross the language barrier imposed by the uni-language that is english.
Great 3D animation film directed by Elsa Brehin by Raphael Calamote, Mauro Carraro, Maxime Cazaux, Emilien Davaud Laurent Monneron and Axel Tillement. Produced in 6 weeks, this video is based on the universe of the French illustrator Jean-Philippe Masson aka Muzo.
Muzorama from Muzorama Team on Vimeo.
Great 3D animation film directed by Elsa Brehin by Raphael Calamote, Mauro Carraro, Maxime Cazaux, Emilien Davaud Laurent Monneron and Axel Tillement. Produced in 6 weeks, this video is based on the universe of the French illustrator Jean-Philippe Masson aka Muzo.
Muzorama from Muzorama Team on Vimeo.
Bionic Contact Lens
The fallowing article is from the www.readwriteweb.com website.
Your Cyborg Eye Will Talk to You
"Just as many of us are getting used to augmented reality applications for cellphones and digital cameras, Babak Amir Parviz and his University of Washington students are taking it one step further. The group is working on a human machine interface where LEDs are embedded into contact lenses in order to display information to the wearer. You heard right, in a few years your cyborg eye will talk to you. In an article with the IEEE Spectrum, Parviz relays the challenges of custom-building semi-transparent circuitry into a polymer lens roughly 1.2 millimeters in diameter.
Editor's note:
Says Parviz, "We're starting with a simple product, a contact lens with a single light source, and we aim to work up to more sophisticated lenses that can superimpose computer-generated high-resolution color graphics on a user's real field of vision."
For now, Parviz mentions that single pixel visual cues for gamers and the hearing impaired are already quite possible with the lens prototypes. The group has also experimented with non-invasive biomonitoring including checking glucose levels for diabetics.Some of the obvious challenges of building an augmented reality contact lens include:
1. The Need for Custom Parts:Regular circuitry and LEDs are incompatible with regular contact lenses. Every piece of this project must be fabricated from scratch.
1. The Need for Custom Parts:Regular circuitry and LEDs are incompatible with regular contact lenses. Every piece of this project must be fabricated from scratch.
2. Physical Constraints: The group must attempt to fit transistors, radio chips, antennas, diffusion resistors, LEDs and photodetectors onto a minuscule polymer disc. Additionally, the team is required to control lens position and light intensity relative to the pupil. And finally, because the lens is so close to the corneal surface, the group must project images away from the cornea using either micro-lenses or lasers.
3. User Safety: In addition to protecting the eye against chemicals, heat and toxins, the lens components must be semi-transparent in order for the wearer to view their surroundings.
"We already see a future in which the humble contact lens becomes a real platform, like the iPhone is today, with lots of developers contributing their ideas and inventions. As far as we're concerned, the possibilities extend as far as the eye can see." And you thought the iPhone SDK was a tough nut to crack.
For Parviz's complete seven-page article, check out the IEEE Spectrum's Biomedical page."
source >>> http://www.readwriteweb.com/
Sunday 20 December 2009
Scenes of Heated Conflict from the COP15 Climate Change Protests
The noises that have come out of Copenhagen have not been harmonious. The word from inside the walls of the conference centre has been of rancorous deadlock, not a breakthrough, reached by world leaders trying to thrash out a deal to tackle climate change. On the streets, meanwhile, matters were more discordant still. Violent clashes between demonstrators and the Danish Politti have marked an otherwise bloodless event, with activists throwing missiles at police and their uniformed counterparts making brutal use of force.
It kicked off on December 12 when almost 1,000 people were arrested after sporadic outbreaks of violence in the midst of a largely peaceful demonstration attended by as many as 100,000 people. Activists set off fireworks and hurled bricks, smashing windows, while police were accused of heavy-handed tactics – "kettling" marchers moving through the city into confined areas to contain them, and holding detainees in freezing conditions without medical attention, water or toilets.
Writing in The Guardian, Emily Apple described her experience: "We tried to leave the kettle through an open apartment block. However, this led only to another road full of handcuffed people sat in lines. As soon as the police saw us watching this scene, we were also grabbed, thrown to the floor and arrested… Spirits in the steel holding cages were high and resistance was in the air. Some broke down the doorsof their cages and the large warehouse echoed to caterwauling and chants…"
On December 16 there were more clashes and over 260 arrests as thousands of campaigners marched on the Bella Centre hosting the UN climate talks – a venue into which environmental groups like Friends of the Earth were barred entry. Police confronted protestors who wanted to stage a 'people's assembly' inside the summit in a bid to 'Reclaim Power' but were beaten back by police, with demonstrators and others critical of tactics employed like the use of pepper spray and dogs.
One protestor voiced his view that "there are a lot of people here and we want actions not words". It seems to fall pretty close to the mark. When words do not seem to be working – so evident in the mired negotiations between wealthy and poor nations over emissions cuts at Copenhagen – people are more likely to take matters into their own hands.
source>>> environmental graffiti
Google Goggles
Google Goggles is probably the next new big thing. Because mobile phone are evolving so much, they have got to a point where they are more than just phones. They are tinny mobile pocket computers with cameras and internet connection. Well all this technology together gave the guys from Google to take the next step in internet searching. Always looking for ways to inovate and simplify your life Google has done it again. Google Goggles is guna be a ground breaking breakthrough.
Use pictures to search the web.
A picture is worth a thousand words.No need to type your search anymore. Just take a picture.
Find out what businesses are nearby.Just point your phone at a store.
This is just the beginning - it's not quite perfect yet.Works well for some things, but not for all.
Your pictures, your control.Turn on 'visual search history' to view or share your pictures at any time. Turn it off to discard them once the search is done.
WATCH THE VIDEO
JDome
JDome 
JDome is a simple way to turn the gaming experience more emersive. Still in its early stages of production and it has limited edition, but it is a great simple solution to bring gaming to the next level. Here i have posted some videos that explain what it is more properly.
Unfortunaly no one can be told what JDome is , you have to watch it.
Introducing the jDome Invention
JDome first public test
Call of Duty 4 on jDome
Testing the car racing game STCC
World Premiere for jDome at Dreamhack
Thursday 17 December 2009
Street Installations
Born in 1970 in the state of Virginia this american artist is well known for the street installations that he creates with packing tape. is success has got him published in newspapers like The Washington Post, The independet, Time Out New york and many others. He as shown his work in many art galleries through out the world. Enjoy some of his work in this post.
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