nathan williams | simiant.com

build your own atlas gloves

Atlas Gloves is a DIY physical interface for controlling 3D mapping applications like Google Earth. The user interface is a pair of illuminating gloves that can be used to track intuitive hand gestures like grabbing, pulling, reaching and rotating. The Open Source Atlas Gloves application can be downloaded here and operated from home using a webcam and two self-made illuminating gloves (or flashlights).

via http://twitter.com/shbadr

Published on August 4, 2010.
Filed under: hacks, hardware, technology

last.fm’s cute robots.txt file

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /music?
Disallow: /widgets/radio?
Disallow: /show_ads.php

Disallow: /affiliate/
Disallow: /affiliate_redirect.php
Disallow: /affiliate_sendto.php
Disallow: /affiliatelink.php
Disallow: /campaignlink.php
Disallow: /delivery.php

Disallow: /music/+noredirect/

Disallow: /harming/humans
Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders
Disallow: /harm/to/self

Allow: /

via sarah badr

Published on July 28, 2010.
Filed under: technology

uk social media statistics info-video

Published on July 28, 2010.
Filed under: agency, media, technology, video

i’d completely forgotten that i had made this

it’s still working away, archiving off twitter, though I’m not entirely sure why.

link

Published on July 27, 2010.
Filed under: shit n stuff, technology

goolery: awesome google related projects

link

Published on July 27, 2010.
Filed under: technology

8-bit colour cycling pixel art in html5

link

Published on July 26, 2010.
Filed under: experience design, gaming, technology

so laid back he’s almost horizontal douche with a beard shows us his ipad rss reader thing that looks quite good despite the fact that he obviously couldn’t give a fuck

Published on July 21, 2010.
Filed under: mobile, shit n stuff, technology, video

lagoa multiphysics 1.0

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 – Teaser from Thiago Costa on Vimeo.

Published on July 21, 2010.
Filed under: technology, video

quirky: collaborative product development. is nice.

link

Published on July 20, 2010.
Filed under: business, design, hacks, hardware, technology

pointless because you can ipod wall

The iPod Wall from welikesmall on Vimeo.

‘This is a video showing the build of the Welikesmall iPod wall. It was made from 20 iPods over the course of about three weeks in our spare time. Tasks included building and designing the wooden box, programming an iPhone application that runs off the Game Kit framework, hacking a USB hardware fan together, developing a Python / Django web server application, and designing a quick UI. To keep the wall constantly powered we used a Cambrionix B2 USB powered hub.
Our current iPhone Application allows for 4 different modes, a screen saver mode, a full image split mode (the controlling iPod looks for an image and then the server executes a script to split that image among all 20 iPods), a single image grid mode (the controlling iPod tells the server to give a random image to each iPhone), and a hybrid mode which displays all three. In addition, the server is always checking to ensure that each iPod is synched.’

Published on July 20, 2010.
Filed under: hacks, hardware, mobile, shit n stuff, technology

chrome experiments: plasma tree

link

Published on July 16, 2010.
Filed under: art, technology

all kinds of AWSEOME

Published on July 14, 2010.
Filed under: hacks, shit n stuff, technology

dubstep turntablism

UK DMC Champion JFB testing out the scratch performance on the Denon DN-S3700 media players.

Published on July 13, 2010.
Filed under: music, technology

ibutterfly: japanese augmented reality ‘coupon entertainment’

Published on July 13, 2010.
Filed under: experience design, mobile, technology

5 things i’m thinking about now

meme: so following on from Ian…

Apple: Creating a tightly controlled walled garden of content distribution & consumption. Use as much hyperbole as you like Steve, walled garden’s aren’t groovy, and in my opinion ultimately fail.

Mobile: Now a 2 horse race. With Nokia now irrelevant, and Microsoft never actually being there anyway, it’s down to Android vs iOS. My money’s on Google (#skynet)

Cloud: It’s what mobile is actually about, not the handsets / OS’s (despite my last point). Google is the clear leader here, but I’m kinda interested in how Intel relates to all this, as whoever owns the server farm, their tech is in there. I think that’s untapped. Finally, we still haven’t realised as consumer the real tangible and emotional value of what we have stored in the cloud.

Presences & Interfaces: I only have 2 basic online identities, my name, and my old school handle. Identity isn’t the issue, it’s the presences I’ve created with these identities across multiple platforms. Identity management is easy, presence management isn’t. I’m interested in the next generation of interfaces that enable us to mage these presences.

of life tech brands: AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft. What’s the point anymore? What do they stand for?

Why doesn’t Microsoft wall-off Windows (the entire frickin ecosystem) into the enterprise and create a linux based consumer os from the ground up?

Published on July 13, 2010.
Filed under: brand, branding, business, media, mobile, shit n stuff, technology

reza ali

‘Reza Ali is a designer/technologist/hybrid who is interested in everything from design to biology to art. Reza is currently a masters student in the Media Arts and Technology department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with two B.S. (One in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and minors in Electronic Art and Product Design).’

Published on July 13, 2010.
Filed under: art, technology, tools

andrew kim: htc 1

Andrew Kim has a crack at re-designing HTC handsets

Published on July 12, 2010.
Filed under: design, hardware, mobile, technology

japanese home computers in the pre-windows era

‘During the 1980s and 1990s, while the rest of the world went with Apple, Atari, Commodore, IBM and Sinclair for its computers, Japan isolated herself and adopted non-compatible, domestically produced ranges. This was partly due to difficulties with converting Western computers to handle the Japanese language, and it resulted in a fascinating, unique evolutionary bubble with some amazing hardware and games, very little of which would leave Japan.’

Published on July 12, 2010.
Filed under: gaming, hardware, technology