The 60 Most Powerful Photos Ever Taken That Perfectly Capture The Human Experience. 50 Best iPhone Apps, 2013 Edition. 1: Pop Pictogram Posters | Pop Music's Biggest Moments, Illustrated In Pictograms. John Lennon once said that Bob Dylan could “get away with murder” with his notoriously obtuse--and critically adored--lyrics. He was right. Who among us can tell us what “Ballad of a Thin Man” is really about? But as it turns out, their evocative imagery starts to make a little more sense in graphic form. That’s what designer Viktor Hertz has done with his Pictogram Pop Posters, a series of minimalist prints that visualize songs and lyrics from some of pop’s most storied acts. Hertz has made great use of pictograms before, but he outdid himself in this pop immersion: “I made as many as I could possibly come up with for each artist, and jammed them into one single poster.” The series began with the Rolling Stones poster, which a friend had asked Hertz to design as a birthday present for his father.
I’m partial to the Beatles poster, which suspends a walrus, a weeping guitar, a field of strawberries, and most cleverly, Norwegian wood (on a long and winding strip of road). 15 amazing examples of experimental design | Design. It's fair to say that designers are fascinated by technology. But it isn't the tech itself that's of interest - it's what can be achieved via experimental design. Whether for commercial purposes or personal projects, here we look at some fantastic examples of how designers have pushed technologies and platforms into new, and often unexpected directions - all creating amazing work in the process. Also read: Beautiful and inspiring examples of industrial design 01. Digital Fireworks Seb Lee-Delisle is well known for his creative-coding exploits, and he's a regular on the conference circuit.
A combination of projection and movement detection is used to 'see' when an audience member moves themselves over a digital orb projected onto an enormous screen. 02. 3D projection mapping The project used seven projectors to push out 28 million pixels, and combined real-world lighting with projection. 03. 04. You can preview an example of a location-aware audio drama from the BBC at futurebroadcasts.com. "Babe's Lair" - Walt & Vervain.
Artificial Intelligence Is The New Uncanny Valley. The uncanny valley is a paradoxically attractive mythos to technologists. Despite being a theory that dates back to the steam engine era, we cite it regularly as a grounding ideology, accepting without question that there must be a future point at which robots will look so almost human that we’ll be sickened by them. In reality, modern CGI and robotics have already pushed us well past the uncanny valley. No, that doesn’t mean we’ve crafted the perfect plastic humans yet. What’s changed is our reaction to these too-good-to-be-true fake humans; our visual culture has evolved past the point of disgust over eerily convincing human synthetics. But in our obsession with the aesthetic uncanny valley, we’ve overlooked a different, deeper uncanny valley waiting around the corner. It’s not the way robots look that will bother us, but how these systems act. Origins of the Term Reveal Its Misuse The fundamental philosophy goes back even further.
AI Is The More Concerning Uncanny Valley. How to Learn Flixel. Flixel is a free and open source 2D game development framework written by Adam "Atomic" Saltsman (Canabalt, Hundreds) in AS3 for making Flash games. It is a very mature, flexible and robust library. In this article, we'll introduce you to the platform and its capabilities, and share tutorials, plugins, and suggestions to get you started developing games with it.
What Makes Flixel So Awesome? Flixel is written in a way that you get started with your game from the get go. This small library packs an essential array of tools that lets you build 2D platformers, RPGs, Physics puzzles and a lot more. It comes with a class-based scene management system, and gives you a simple sprite class that also has some physics properties like velocity, acceleration and angular acceleration. As a programmer, Flixel is by far one of the fastest ways I've found to prototype my game ideas. Notable Games Made With Flixel Canabalt A House in California Anodyne Rot Gut Cat Astro Phi Half-Inch Heist Snailiad Gravity Hook. 10 Fundamental Firefox Add-Ons for Developers. LIGHT - Spotlight Your Life.
06. tangible interaction? | Interaction Design for Home Innovation 2012. An iPhone that can do everything! What if all those cell phone apps weren’t just apps? Interactive Sound Clouds Usually clouds have a negative connotation, but these clouds light up and interact with the sounds around them. Electronic Woodpecker Music An art installation in the woods of Vancouver, where electronic birds peck at trees in different rhythms. Let’s be real. Here’s something a bit different, kinda like the quilt or clothing that we read up on during the semester. BrandTable Concept BrandTable is a concept for food courts where you order remotely from a table and pay with your phone. This project was completed as part of the Interaction Design and Electronic Arts program at the University of Sydney Little Printer – Printing the personal mini-newspaper Ever wanted to have live twitter updates or tagged status messages come up to you in print ? As the description goes : Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from your friends.
SWITCH. Designing Magazines. Trust Me, I'm a "Designer"'s Photos. Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil. American author, inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil has become well known for predicting the future of artificial intelligence and the human race. His first book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990, put forth his theories on the results of the increasing use of technology and predicted the explosive growth in the internet, among other predictions. Later works, 1999's The Age of Spiritual Machines and 2005's The Singularity is Near outlined other theories including the rise of clouds of nano-robots (nanobots) called foglets and the development of Human Body 2.0 and 3.0, whereby nanotechnology is incorporated into many internal organs.
Accuracy of predictions[edit] The Age of Intelligent Machines[edit] Perhaps most significantly, Kurzweil foresaw the explosive growth in worldwide Internet use that began in the 1990s. The Age of Spiritual Machines[edit] The Singularity Is Near[edit] Other sources[edit] Ray Kurzweil's response[edit] Future predictions[edit] Early 2000s[edit] Zelary Trailer. Mashable. Speed Test | Bandwidth | Broadband Internet Services. This Belt-Driven Beauty Is the Ultimate Steampunk Wristwatch. When you’ve already built one of the most unique belt-driven watches around, what do you do for an encore? Well, you can take that innovative analog watch, add brass gears and cogs to the works inside it, wrap it in a beautiful bronze-clad case, add steel rivets, springs and screws, and turn it into one of the ultimate steampunk accessories, of course.
The Devon Tread 1 made waves when it was released, as its novel design uses four “interwoven time belts”, just 2 microns thick, which are driven by four microstep motors, powered by rechargeable lithium polymer batteries. But the steampunk version of the Tread is head and shoulders above the first one, at least as far as design details and style are concerned. Reach.ly - real-time marketing for hotels. 50 Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Building Awesome Things. Brian Norgard is a founder of Chill, which is a platform that allows you to watch video from (and with) the people you care about. Brian also founded Newroo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media when he was 25) and Ad.ly(the world’s largest celeb endorsement network). Brian Wong is the founder of kiip (pronounced “keep”), a mobile rewards network, backed by True Ventures. Kiip has raised over $4.4 million in funding to date and is redefining the advertising industry through a “moments”-based value model, versus the traditional attention based screen estate model.
Very recently, Kiip was listed by Forbes as one of the “4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List”. Tara Hunt cofounded Buyosphere in 2010, an online Q&A for shopping. Dave Elchoness co-founded Tagwhat with Don Cramer and Angus Shee in 2009 to create new mobile experiences for people at places. Mona Bijoor Oliver Roup Bre Pettis Bre Pettis makes things that make things. Aaron Harris Christian Lanng Matthew Bellows Adii Rockstar. CE Week 2013 :: June 24-28, 2013. How to get the Kinect working on Mac OS X - Freenect.
As announced before, here's a post that explains how to get the Kinect sensor working on Mac OS X. The process is quite similar to Linux/*BSD, but you need to build a patched libusb to get everything working correctly. For this manual, we use the GIT repository OpenKinect , which is basically a combination of several open source Kinect projects for Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and Windows. Before you start, make sure to install XCode , CMake , and GIT for Mac OS X first. Now, check out the libusb and OpenKinect repositories and build the whole thing: git clone git clone cd libusb patch -p1 < ../ libfreenect /platform/osx/libusb-osx-kinect.diff . If everything worked correctly, you'll now see a screen similar to this: This is only the beginning of all the fun. Comments Leave a comment... GitHub for Mac.
Chaos theory. A double rod pendulum animation showing chaotic behavior. Starting the pendulum from a slightly different initial condition would result in a completely different trajectory. The double rod pendulum is one of the simplest dynamical systems that has chaotic solutions. Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. Chaotic behavior can be observed in many natural systems, such as weather and climate.[6][7] This behavior can be studied through analysis of a chaotic mathematical model, or through analytical techniques such as recurrence plots and Poincaré maps. Introduction[edit] Chaos theory concerns deterministic systems whose behavior can in principle be predicted.
Chaotic systems are predictable for a while and then appear to become random. Chaotic dynamics[edit] The map defined by x → 4 x (1 – x) and y → x + y mod 1 displays sensitivity to initial conditions. Sensitivity to initial conditions[edit] where , and , is: . Interaction Design Foundation.