Pictures and sounds by Shunsuke Saito.

How do you follow WhopperFreakout? With WhopperFace of course.

Nice.

Real-time visualization of interactions at SXSW.

Here.

A recode of the V&A Decode thing.

Using a mindmap type visual interface, WhatDoYouSuggest returns the top words that Google suggests based on a query.  By clicking on the word most relevant the search becomes narrower.

Sweet.

Here

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.

More here.

Welcome to Hot Wheels® Custom Motors Cup™ where you will compete as Pit Crew Chief and race across 3 courses in the chase for the cup. Make the right choices and lead your team to victory.

Sweet.

YouTube Channel here.

Site here.

Bust out the narcs and turn off the lights.

Here.

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.

Here.

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.

Here.

Visualization and data produced and collected by Digital Urban and their smashing Tweet-o-Meter:

More here.

‘A fun and social way to attach digital content to real world objects.’

Here.

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.

Here.

Thanks Martin.

Viaaltnytterfarlig

8-Bit NYC, mixes lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games with the kind of mapping functionality (draggable, zoomable) and data that drives today’s web maps.

Map here.

More here.

‘Graf-up’ the streets and subways from the comfort of your own couch.

ViaCartelle

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.

Here.

‘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.

Visualizing personal data.

ViaRickWilliams.

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 is a mobile app that tells people how you are doing and where you are how you are doing?

Here.

Hearmenow.

Thanks Yacco.

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.

For Friday…

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.

Thank you Mr Bassett.

Simon Fuller’s new project features five young 20-somethings living in a house in LA chasing their starry-eyed dreams of acting, modeling, and singing in Hollywood. Just like Big Brother they’re all taped for a weekly reality show. The new bit is that this whole thing is exclusively on Hulu and a .com – including multi-cam 24/7 live streaming action.

Hulu & .com.

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.

Goes on a bit but it’s pretty sweet.

The initial idea would be to open one here in Amsterdam, but I guess the idea has a certain global appeal – just so long as there are English people around.

Heineken would likely never allow it – nevertheless, I think it’s a winner.

Anyone?