Of this nerdgasmic chocky-buttoned CRT orgy, John Gallen writes:
I took these pics down at IACT on Fitzwillam St Upper [Dublin] this afternoon – consoles, old Amstrads, Macs… and that’s Defender on the right screen in the first pic… ;)
Say their names. Right there. Oh yeah.
Behold: the HUVr, crafted from “paramagnetic titanium” and shipping from December 2014.
Based on the hoverboard from Back To The Future and endorsed here by Moby, Tony Hawk and Christopher Lloyd it is, of course, a real thing that is real.
Apple’s new in-car iPhone integrator, launched this week in advance of the Geneva International Motor Show, uss Siri to give hands-free voice command functionality for dictating texts, navigating music, accessing maps and more via a built in display.
https://vimeo.com/70360563
One of many autonomous drawing machines (including a windup alarm clock and an old Walkman) set to work by artist and graphic designer Echo Yang.
The chicken has since received a substantial Arts Council grant.
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The Aerobull from Jarre Technologies is an iPod/iPhone speaker (100W RMS @ 1% Total Harmonic, Mid-tge 2 x 20W; subwoofer 1 x 60W) with bluetooth and line-ins for CD and other music players.
Plus it looks like a dog wearing sunglasses. With an iPhone embedded in its skull.
Available in various painted and chromed finishes for a trifling €999.
Overstepping Artifacts – a fractalised ambient/drone/experimental music video from French animator Alexandre ‘Ricardo Montalban’ Lehmann.
If you liked it (and haven’t already fallen over sideways) check out his equally psychedelic 2011 video Astroblast.
Full screen, headphones, avoid the brown acid, etc.
Raf Ramakers – a team of digital media designers from Hasselt University in Belgium are investigating the possibility of applying the compact folding mechanisms of three dimensional puzzles to create mobile touch screen devices capable of physically transforming from phones to tablets and games controllers.
Paddle is an illustrative demo of the concept.
Hexi – an interactive display by Canadian based designer Thibault Sid consisting of 60 hexagonal panels fitted with sensors and mechanical servos that respond to motion tracked by a nearby depth camera.
Cloudwash is a prototype connected washing machine – one of a range of connected appliances still in development – that will, among other things, schedule various washing cycles, purchase conditioner and powder online and operate remotely, with or without a smarttphone app.
Since last year, ATAP google has been developing a new kind of mobile phone that tracks its own motion in three dimensions, using an internal sensor array to make over a quarter of a million position, depth and orientation measurements a second, building a three dimensional map of the space around the user.
