Propellerhead Creates Worlds Largest Drum Machine
Propellerhead recently decided to create a giant, 4×4 light-emitting device so large that you have to literally jump between each of the pads in order to trigger the drum samples. Then they just randomly set up shop outdoors somewhere and hooked everything up to a projector showing the Kong drum synthesizer that it was hooked up to, and hundreds of people just stood there in awe.
Kong is a new instrument added in Reason 5, which by the way, has benn launched on 25th of August. It is a $129 upgrade if you currently own ANY previous version of the program, $349 if you are buying it for the first time, and $449 in combination with Record, which is also getting an update tomorrow. More info here! | via
UK’s first 3D Arachnophobia Clinic created by Sky
Sky 3D launch UK’s first arachnophobia therapy programme with Denise Van Outen.
Sky is using the power of 3D technology to tackle one of the nation’s most common phobias – spiders! About 50% of the population admit to being scared of spiders, so to help them face this fear head on Sky has created ground breaking new footage of these creepy crawlies in 3D. more images here… | via
Future of Transport: 3D Fast Bus
A innovative new light-rail concept unveiled in China this week is designed to drive over traffic. The 3D Fas Bus or ‘Straddling Bus’ offers a green solution solution to traffic congestion by doing just as its name suggests and straddling two lanes of traffic, allowing cars to pass underneath it.
Racer
Racer is an analogue recreation of a coputer racing game in the style of the classic WipeOut.It consists of a modified vintage arcade machine, a RC model car with a wireless camera,an a self-constructed racetrack/game level made entirely from cardboard. | Via & Via
VR/urban: “SMSlingshot”
The SMS slingshot is a device designed to create digital augmented realities in urban space.
The device is shaped as a wooden slingshot with a build-in mobile phone display, a keypad and a laser. Users can type a text message and shoot it straight at a large facade. A projector pointed at the facade will show the message as a colour splash with the message written within.
The project is designed by VR/URBAN, a group of digital intervention-activists based in Berlin. They will demonstrate the device at various media-festival in the next couple of months. Check their website for dates and technical specs! | via & via
Buttons by Sascha Pohflepp
Buttons in a project by Sascha Pohflepp playing on the notion of the camera as a networked object. Unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn’t have any optical parts. It is a camera that will only capture a moment at the press of a button by recording only the time it was pressed. Quickly after it begins to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment and displays on the screen. Essentially, it is a camera that – using a SonyEricsson K750i hidden behind the boxing – takes other’sphotos. Photos that were created by someone who pressed a button somewhere at the same time as its own button was pressed. | Via
HTC Wildfire Experience
L’HTC celebra il nuovo smartphone Wildfire con un concorso che ha lo scopo di trasformare lavita virtuale in reale.L’Htc Wildfire Experience partendo proprio da questoconcetto, realizzerà il sogno dell’ideatore della proposta più entusiasmante e riunirà nel mondoreale tutti i suoi contatti Facebook per un giorno, in un unico luogo, per un evento progettato da lui.
Ai visitatori della pagina Facebook HTC Italia verrà posta la seguente domanda: “Se potessi riuniretutti i tuoi amici di Facebook nello stesso posto per un giorno – cosa faresti?”. Il concorso è online ed è già attivo, terminerà il 15 agosto e il vincitore sarà selezionato e reso noto il 2 settembre.
Inviare delle idee geniali al concorso è semplice con un HTC Wildfire, perché dotato di tecnologia Sense che semplifica con un tocco le operazioni più laboriose e di un sistema smart nella gestionedelle informazioni e nella ricerca delle applicazioni, con quest’ultime si accede ai più importanti socialnetwork, si organizzano le comunicazioni, si inviano notifiche e aggiornamenti di Facebook, Twitter, Flickr agli amici presenti in rubrica. Inoltre questo smartphone della forma arrotondata è provvisto di un touch screen da 3,2 pollici, unafotocamera da 5 megapixel con auto focus e flash LED e di un jack audio da 3,5 mm e lo slot SD card per la musica più amata.
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The Art of Analog Computing
The premise of this short film is to represent the digital tools and interfaces we use daily in an analog way. In the analog office, your computer desktop becomes your actual desk, your inbox gets flooded with Spam cans, the server runs past you multiple times a day (and perhaps crashes every now and then), and Twitter users follow each other around the space. This concept is essentially just for fun but also reminds us just how digitally connected we all are. The video was acted and produced entirely by the Meltmedia team and filmed in the Meltmedia office. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it.
Head over to meltmedia.com/ignite for photos and more information on our little video.
Billboard Magazine – What they’re made of
Billboard Magazine had this installation in rock bars in Sao Paulo, in which people could show the world what they’re made of.
Production: formentera.com.br | marcosk.com | Via
Apple Iphone 4
Apple has just presented today the new generation of iPhone called the iPhone 4. Nearly 100 innovations and functions including a new design, a camera in frontage, a brighter screen in 960×640 pixels, HD video recording, multitasking and video callings. Wow!
Phillu
The name Phillu comes from Phillumeny (also known as Phillumenism) which is the hobby of collecting different match-related items. Phillu is a matchbox-shaped mobile storage device which makes it possible to carry and transfer up to 45 GB of your data. The idea behind the product is to use the shapes and functions of a matchbox in portable storage ways.
There are 9 removable match-shaped sticks, each has a 5 GB storage capacity, integrated to the device. For transferring data from each stick to another Phillu is only possible until you light them.
