Paper Brochure creates 3d world on computer.

I have been seeing this alot online. A user takes a real time video and uses visual marks in the real world to create virtual 3d renderings on screen. I can see the cool factor going on, but I am not sure how much this would catch on unless in some sort of controlled environment. I would never take a brochure from a car dealer and take it home and use my webcam to see more. I have a hard time remembering web address from billboard let alone remembering to check out more on something else!

This would be cool in the experiential arena. Thoughts?

On the touch screens of steel.

Engadget posted this ill video of the ATTIGO TT touch screen turn tables! Very ill. I will say I that I wasn't sure how you could really scratch on there, but they seem to pull it off.

Check it!

NYTimes Lobby Installation

Artist Ben Rubin and UCLA professor/statistician Mark Hansen created this ill installation in the NYTimes Lobby. They put 560 screens pulling random data from the Times then displaying it via certain themes. For example one theme pulls random letters to the editor.

Check out the video

Got it from information aesthetics.

Seam Carving Updates

I posted the Seam Carving video here before. Less Rain has posted some links on their blog about Seam Carving that have been done in flash, java and a photoshop plug-in.Check it out!

360º Viewing image

Check this out. By using a spinning mirror people can actually view a 3d image from 360º.

Scene Carving

This is a great app for controlling scaling of images!

Technology + Graffiti = Digital bombin'

I used to hit the concret with my backpack full of krylon and new york phat caps when I was a young lad. So any thing graffiti has a very special place in my heart. Now add that with technology and boy I am in heaven!

So Marc Ecko has flexed some skills by creating an ad that let's you bomb the bus stop with your phone!

check it!

Slick synth player.

The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface.