The Microsoft Surface is a new product that allows a lot of the same things that are done on most desktop and laptop computers to be done on a simple touch screen table surface. This technology however isn’t limited to the table surface that it’s been presented on. It can also transfer over to TV…

This music video features clips of the faces of Thom Yorke and several other people interspersed with images of suburban landscapes. In lieu of traditional cameras, the video is made with lidar technology which detects the proximity of objects from the sensor. This gives the video a grainy and grid-like appearance. Sheets of acrylic glass…

I thought this was particularly interesting because it reminded me of the movie “Minority Report” with the interactive hologram computers and what not. The speed of the display was also fascinating in that there was no delay and everything appeared right away at the touch. The location of the display was also well decided in…

Last summer I remember visiting Hong Kong which displays every night the largest light show in the world using the entire city as a performance piece. All the buildings participating compete for attention as they’re building flashes their lights and logos. I was very impressed by the coordination of all the buildings to be able…

This is pretty cool. The temperature changes due to whether the color is “warm” or “cold” when you touch the surface of the piece. ~evan behmer, AD406 Browning

Oh, this is just fun. The LEDs in this table react to motion and shadows, lighting up, blinking, and dimming in reaction to movement. Make your next dinner party a real party! There’s also a PDF outlining the construction of the table, and the design is being given away for free if you want your…

Though the concept has a ways to go, it’s pretty impressive to see this in any sort of usable implementation. The article explains it in more detail, but basically the idea is that you can use a live camera connected to the internet to access info on whatever it sees and project relative information about…

A robot controlled wireless by a rat’s brain cells.

A robot controlled wireless by a rat’s brain cells.

recursion: mathematics, programmingWhen a function (or procedure) calls itself. Such a function is called “recursive”. If the call is via one or more other functions then this group of functions are called “mutually recursive”.If a function will always call itself, however it is called, then it will never terminate. Usually however, it first performs some…

I thought this one is pretty cool. I’m a big fan of Ipods, and I think there the best mp3 player on the market. Even though this was an older generation of Ipod, I would love to learn how to do my own homebrew using pd on my ipod. I just think it’s really creative…