ATOM performance.

* via http://r-echos.net/2010/08/13/browsing-back-in-timeassembling%C2%A0%C2%BB-blog-archive%C2%A0%C2%BB/

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The Galaxy Poncho via Less and More

Youtube, Now in Super HD

Youtube, now in Super HD!

Delicate Boundaries

Delicate Boundaries is an interactive installation that explores and crosses the boundaries between the digital and the physical world. Small light bugs crawl out of a computer screen onto human bodies that make contact with them.

Initially the light bugs exist in the digital world inside the computer but when a person touches the screen, the bugs will leave the virtual world and enter the physical world on the human’s body.

Check out the video which shows the system in action:

Delicate Boundaries from csugrue on Vimeo.

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(via digitalexperience.)

Colossal overhead clock tells time, replaces boring light fixtures

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Household

Realities:United has created a device that will likely bring back fond memories of Coldplay’s X&Y tour a few years ago, particularly if you were there for the first 60 or so seconds when a gigantic timepiece such as the one seen above counted down the show’s start. Without getting too reminiscent up in here, the artistsspace commissioned project not only keeps track of time impeccably well, but it also replaces those mundane fixtures that have become an unfortunate mainstay in corporate offices. Now, if only the workday would whiz by as quickly as the one shown in the demonstrative video located in the read link, you’d be all set. [Warning: read link directs to video]

[Via MAKE]

(via Engadget.)

greenpix zero-energy massive LED display

the largest color LED display worldwide, & the first photo-voltaic system integrated into a glass curtain wall in China. the display requires zero external energy, as the facade harvests solar energy by day & uses it to illuminate the screen after dark. the display comprises of 2,292 color (RGB) LED’s light points comparable to a 24,000 sq. ft. (2.200 m2) monitor screen for dynamic content display.

the polycrystalline photovoltaic cells are laminated within the glass of the curtain wall & placed with changing density on the entire building’s skin. the density pattern increases building’s performance, allowing natural light when required by interior program, while reducing heat gain & transforming excessive solar radiation into energy for the media wall.

you can play with the online simulator, or watch a movie after the break.

[link: greenpix.org|via engadget.com]

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(via information aesthetics.)

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Open Platforms

These screens located at the entrance Izu Koogen station show a close circuit TV picture of the train departure times as seen from the station platform, plus ambient data of the platform itself.

For every closed system the interface to something, more, open. The loss of data granularity and for the consumer of that data whether it makes a difference?

(via Future Perfect)

Nicholas Negroponte’s 1984 TED Talk: 4 predictions for the future (3 of them correct): ”

Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas Negroponte waxes prophetic on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design. Years before anyone was using the word ‘convergence,’ Negroponte was thinking about TV screens as the ‘electronic books of the future’ and computers as the future of education. In excerpts from his 2-hour talk (this was before TED’s 18-minute time limit), he foreshadowed web interfaces, touchscreen kiosks, the multitouch interface of the iPhone, and his own One Laptop per Child project. Oh, and there’s also a fascinating project called Lip Service, which … well, let’s just say it’s still ahead of us.

Negroponte’s full 2-hour talk will be made available for download, but parts of it must be restored.

(Recorded at the first TED conference, February 1984 in Monterey, California. Duration: 25:23.)

Watch Nicholas Negroponte’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances.

Read more about Nicholas Negroponte on TED.com.

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(Via TED.)

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(Via We Made This.)