An interactive installation by Daan Roosegaarde is called Dune 4.0. It consists of hundred of black fibers with LED-lighted tops, which react on the movements and sounds of passing visitors. It kinda reminds one of futuristic techno reed. 🙂 Daan Roosegaarde refers to his installation as an interactive landscape. I like this beautiful, slightly eerie […]
» Deutsch Recently, I bought a new monitor: A Samsung SyncMaster 245b. The screen size measures impressive 24 inches. Yeah! ^_^ First of all, a few facts: Screen size: 24″ Resolution: 1920×1200 Panel technology: TN Connections: VGA, DVI Energy consumption: max. 100W Standby: max. 2W USB ports: no Integrated speakers: no (fortunately!) My first impression […]
In 2006, a pilot project was started to install surveillance cameras in several routes of Berlin’s subway. One condition of the project was that it had to be evaluated. The disillusioning intermediary result: A change of crime rates due to the introduction of video surveillance does not become apparent. A significant effect on the security […]
Starting next year, all communication providers in Germany will have to store all connection data for six months.
In Quake, you sweep around virtual avatars all the time. Probably your avatars get really healthy through the regular exercises, but yourself are becoming fat and fatter because you’re sitting in front of your computer all the time. Doesn’t that suck? Maybe this is what Martin Faust was thinking when he created QuakeRunner. It is […]
Erik used a clothes horse, a Gametrak and a little bit of software to create a virtual drum kit.
Yet another toy for Last.fm: MoneyCalc. Using data from Last.fm and Amazon, MoneyCalc tries to figure out how much it would cost to buy the top 50 records of your Last.fm profile. For each record the price at Amazon is queried. The result is presented in a list which shows each single price as well […]
It’s always great to see when people take things and give them a new meaning. This time: The controller of Nintendo’s new console Wii (“Wii Remote” a.k.a. “Wiimote” with the extension “Nunchuk” – what great names) as a musical instrument including visualization. In different modes, Wiimote and Nunchuk can be used to play drums or […]
Mutating Pictures started with 1000 pictures, consisting of randomly spread triangles of different sizes. Every visitor can rate how much the picture resembles a face. The system then generates “offspring” of the highest rated pictures. The goal is to get evolutionary created pictures of faces somewhen.
This project should be fuel to the thoughts of paranoid people who think that violent games like Quake turn players into bloodthirsty homicidal maniacs which can’t differentiate between game and reality anymore: ARQuake tries to merge Quake’s virtual world with the reality.