Playstation Move
For those of you that live in a barn, PlayStation ‘Move’ is Sony’s motion based control system designed to compete with Natal and Wiimote. Officially unveiled yesterday the device is a wireless wand-like item that uses a light-emitting orb and a PlayStation Eye to track motion and body movements. Not unlike the Wiimote this device comes with a ’sub-controller’ that acts like the nunchuck. Out in the fall.
WARNING: This video may make you sick-up on your shoes.
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Fourwhere | Social Venue Recommendation
Location-based social search tool FourWhere shows Foursquare tips on Google Maps so you can see what Foursquare users are saying about nearby places. It’s a simple and very useful app, essentially providing a map-based search and recommendation service for anyone planning a trip out.
Google Public Data Explorer
The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don’t have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
London Twitter Cloud
Data covering a weekend period from Friday evening to Monday morning containing 380,000 individual tweets. Within these 60,000 were geo-referenced, tweeted by 5,500 individual users – visualized on Google Earth.
Visualization and data produced and collected by Digital Urban and their smashing Tweet-o-Meter:
More here.
stickybits | tag your world
‘A fun and social way to attach digital content to real world objects.’
Bwired | Home Automation Showcase
Homebrew software used for complete control of home automation systems enabling every single electronic enabled device, device change and event to be controlled or logged. The system can manage and control hundreds of home automation devices from dozens of different manufacturers across multiple technologies. Toilet, fridge, heating, windows – you name it – all controlled and monitored from a browser.
A little bit like Homeseer.
Thanks Martin.
FlyFire
Flyfire is project by the SENSEable City Laboratory in collaboration with ARES Lab (Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory), both departments of the MIT. The goal is to transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive display environment. Essentially a huge LED display system using a number of self-organizing ‘pixel’ micro helicopters.
Curious Displays
‘Curious Displays is a product proposal for a new platform for display technology. Instead of a fixed form factor screen, the display surface is instead broken up into hundreds of ½ inch display blocks. Each block operates independently as a self-contained unit, and has full mobility, allowing movement across any physical surface. The blocks operate independently of one another, but are aware of the position and role relative to the rest of the system. With this awareness, the blocks are able to coordinate with the other blocks to reconfigure their positioning to form larger display surfaces and forms depending on purpose and function. In this way, the blocks become a physical embodiment of digital media, and act as a vehicle for the physical manifestation of what typically exists only in the virtual space of the screen.’
More here.
Experientia | LifeStream
Visualizing personal data.
ViaRickWilliams.
Brain Computer Interface
Live demonstration of a brain-controlled Adams Family pinball machine. The player imagines left and right hand movements, algorithms decode realtime brain activity signals into control signals for the machine.
Nice hat.
Glow | How Do You Feel
Glow is a mobile app that tells people how you are doing and where you are how you are doing?
AR Face Recognition
Not clear who made this, it’s very similar to the TAT stuff only it seems to work off a still image with database enquiry.
Touch Projector | Mobile Video Interaction
Touch Projector is a mobile application that enables content manipulation on distant displays via live video.
It’s a little ahead of its time if you think about the tech required to make it work, but the idea is pretty solid.
Via (the mighty) TAT.
Skinput | Body Buttons
Skinput (see what they did there) is a method that allows the body to be appropriated for finger input using a novel, non-invasive, wearable bio-acoustic sensor.
More here.
Last Call | 13th Street | Audience Participation Theatrical
Goes on a bit but it’s pretty sweet.