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If you’re traveling and you can’t find a WiFi connection, it’s handy to be able to route your laptop’s traffic through your phone. Windows and Mac users have been able to easily tether their BlackBerries this way for some time, and Linux users can do the same with the help of Barry, an Open Source […]
”Ping Genius Loci” by Aether Architecture is an architectural installation built from 300 radio networked, solar powered, and self-sustainable intelligent, analog pixels. The pixels are placed on a 20 by 20 meter grid and interface with people walking through the grid. Interesting way to create physical pixels, although there might be a problem if it […]
This project, called “Reddot”, reacts to human interaction in the lobby of an office building by displaying color flows in a three-dimensional plexiglass grid that tracks pedestrians as they walk by. The project uses a unique form of presence detection by projecting lasers onto people’s bodies and tracking how far they are from its face, […]
This installation called “BB_Write” employs a Blackberry and custom hardware to create four micro environments that correspond to the keywords: liberation, innovation, interaction, communication. The project attempts to build a spatial version of the “always on” experience as the Blackberry collects email constantly and generates ambient sounds based on incoming emails from visitors to the […]
This iPhone app, called “Brushes”, lets you add a painterly effect to your pictures or create your own finger paintings from scratch. The sketches above were created by Disney artist Stef Kardos using the app and shows the potential of this cool piece of software. There’s even a link to a Flickr group of “Brushes” […]
Looking for a better reason to have that high powered phone on your hip? How about saving the world, or saving yourself? The applications are designed to change people’s behavior for the better, said Sunny Consolvo, one of UbiFit’s creators. In a three-month field experiment, people using UbiFit with the background display kept up their […]
It seems shouting in the datacenter increases disk latency, fun experiment – we’ve all shouted in the server room, maybe we need to do it outside from now on… or just go all SSD.
