May 2008
18 posts
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Felted Signal Processing
Felted Signal Processing by Sarah Grant is an amazing project from the ITP Spring Show. Sarah brought her obsession with wool and knitting to create a gorgeous, soft and wooly musical device. Literally, users squish wool together to make music!
Felted Signal Processing provides a wooly interface to analog signal processing circuits, making it possible to shape sound with your hands. By...
WatchSoviet Mario. Oppressed communist Mario goes after foes with his sledgehammer.
WatchI’ve just gotten off the phone with Timo Veikkola who has one of the neatest sounding job titles around. He’s a “Senior Future Specialist” at Nokia in London. He conducts research in Europe and Africa as part of Nokia Design’s Consumer Trends and Experiences team influencing the future product designs as well as informing marketing and overall strategies. He’s...
Clues for the Clueless: The mortgage crisis may... →
It is, or at least it should be, a simple question. You have $200 in an investment that’s earning 10 percent a year. Assuming you let the money grow, how much would you have at the end of two years? If you answered $240, you’ve got plenty of company: in a 2004 survey of American adults, 34 percent gave that answer, which is incorrect, since it ignores the principle of compound...
Color Wars 2008 →
Color Wars 2008 is an internet-wide game in which players from a number of self created teams compete for prizes and medals. It was created by Ze Frank and Erik Kastner. What’s the idea? Ze and Erik used to play color wars at summer camp. Near the end of the year the entire camp would split up into colors, red, green, black, blue, etc… and compete in a series of events: tug of war, egg...
WatchCause Caller is a virtual phone bank web app powered by a Semantic Media Wiki. If that sounds like total greek (or geek) to you, then you should watch this video as it explains Cause Caller’s basic functionality.
Fred writes, “I came up with the idea of automating call queues for phone banks while trying to organize one for myself, it was a total hassle to find everyone’s phone number on...
WatchGraffit Research Lab’s “The Compl337 First Trailer” at the MoMa tomorrow at 8pm. Can’t buy tickets on Upcoming anymore but I’ll probably chance dropping by. After the flick, talk with artists featured in the film, including Mark Jenkins, Leon Reid, Steve Lambert, the GRL and special guests + party to the music of Javelin. BYOPS! (Bring your own purple stuff).
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WatchYou’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world” using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian...
