7 in 7: Day 4
The fourth day of 7 in 7 at ITP revealed Seasonal Salad Dress, Spammed!, Face the Web and “Cheating” Book Cover. Click on a picture to read about each one-day project in the 7 in 7 blog. Days: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Realtime sensor network awaits your input … or output
Wow, this could grow into something quite awesome. Pachube is – a web service that enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices and spaces around the world, facilitating interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual. The idea is to make it relatively simple to “plug” together interactive projects […]
iPhone broadcasts live video
Wow, Flixwagon did what seemed impossible stream live video from an iPhone! Ken writes – We’re happy to announce that our development team at the Flixwagon lab has successfully streamed the first-ever live high-quality video from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client. While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid […]
Ebay data as music
The Sound of Ebay project generates an audio sequence from your auction history – EBAY’S CONCEPT IS BASED ON TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN BUYERS AND SELLERS – TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS, NOT CONSUMERS AND COMPANIES. THE EBAY-GENERATOR SOFTWARE REFLECTS THIS CONCEPT IN A WAY THAT IT DOES NOT ONLY GENERATE YOUR FREE PERSONAL SONG, THE GENERATOR ITSELF […]
YouTube has on-video annotations (demo!)
YouTube now has on-video annotations for content creators — so this means if you own the video you can add notes, comments and hot spot areas to click to enhance a video (not URLs, just links to other YouTube videos). This could be very handy for electronic how-tos and “skill building” videos, from identifying parts […]
Add-Art replaces online ads with art
From the Add-Art site: Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators. Spearheaded by Anti-Advertiser Steve Lambert, this open source project is being developed by Eyebeam. It works with AdBlockPlus, a Firefox extension that […]
Offline Oracle Ouija board
Andrew Salomone made this “Offline Oracle” take on a Ouija board. He made it as an “internet substitute” art piece. He writes: The point of this piece is that access to information clearly does not make us smarter, if we are unable to figure out how to apply the information we have to some useful […]
