DScratch
DScratch is an audio manipulation software that enables you to play with a .wav audio sample, a recorded audio sample or even audio streaming from DS’s embedded mic; you can pitch, scratch, rewind, mute and apply effects.
DScratch can also send MIDI through a wifi connection, enabling you to control external applications, like a VJing or audio sequencer.
Two Touch Screens And A Microphone
Here you’ll be mostly looking at touchscreens that simulate the decks on a more conventional DJ style system. This dudes goal in making the ATTIGO was to create equipment that would allow DJs to play MP3 the same way they would play old skool rekka’s.
Nice.
More here…
iFelony
SpotCrime is a mashup that plots criminal activity onto Google Maps. The site has been around for a few months now and they’ve just introduced an iPhone version. Enabling the middle class to ‘contextually’ shy away from hives of scum and villainy.
Crimes are tagged with icons that relate to the type of incident, clicking said icons presents the user with more detailed information (when available). The site/s currently only support a select number of cities, but apparently that it is expanding.
Mambair
After jumping over an Aston Martin, Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant (accompanied by the cast of Jackass), repeats the stunt, only this time round ‘leaping’ over a pool full of black mambas. Traditional (fake?) Nike viral, with a hit count of 136775 in two days.
Spools Of Steel
Is this for real..?
Key Cuts
Sweet custom-fitted color-coded Mac keyboard skins for Photoshop, Final Cut, After Effects etc. At Photojojo.
New York Times Machine
“TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.”
Global Painting Service
GPS device being sent around the world by DHL.
Via the wonderful NYC
DiMP
DiMP is a video interface that enables users to browse clips by directly manipulating elements of content. Using a technique called ‘relative flow dragging’ users can essentially control playback by moving objects of interest along their visual trajectory.
Weeze?
Remember that ‘best of the internet ever’ video that went round a while ago. Well Weezer have sort of made it again – only with them in it:
Google News On Earth
“The launch of Google News on Google Earth is a milestone in the evolution of the geobrowser. By spatially locating the Google News’ constantly updating index of stories from more than 4,500 news sources, Google Earth now shows an ever-changing world of human activity as chronicled by reporters worldwide. Zoom into areas of personal interest and peruse headlines of national, regional and, when fully zoomed in, even the most local of interest. From school menus to global warming, there is now literally a world of information at your fingertips.”
So there.
TagGalaxy
Like a kinda spherical paper vision type thing.
Gaming Will Save The World*
Foldit is a video game that results in players contributing to important scientific research.
Street View Directions
Google Maps Street View has now been integrated into the Google Maps driving directions.
Cunning.