Yet another cool thing to do with a WiiMote: Build an electronic multi-touch whiteboard. The WiiMote includes an infrared camera which can be used to track points which reflect infrared light. Johnny Chung Lee used this feature to work with self-made infrared pens on various surfaces (primarily projections): The descriptions sounds as if it should […]
In times of global terrorism you can easily overlook the real danger in the world which threatens us all: Zombies. The urgently needed information to this topic can be supplied by the important propaganda documentary “What To Do In A Zombie Attack (2006)”. It gives important instructions how a responsible citizen should behave in case […]
thesixtyone is a platform on which you can listen to and rate music and rate it. Musicians upload their music for everyone to listen to. If you like it, you can “bump” it, giving it a vote. The music which gets voted the most is posted to the front page. So basically, it works for […]
Again, someone finds a creative and weird use for the Wiimote: Need for Speed, controlled with a Spring Horse. According to the creator, it took him 10 to 15 minutes to “upgrade” the sping horse. Here the shortened short instructions: 1.Connect WiiMote to PC 2.Attach WiiMote to Spring Horse 3.Install GlovePie 4.Load joystick script included […]
Usually you see panoramas only as cleanly cut photos in ultra wide format (like this one for example). They are commonly created from several separate shots, but overlapping parts are removed. Not so with “panographies”. They utilize the creative chaos as distinctive element. Hard intersections are deliberate and essential. The more, the better. There is […]
At Maps of War there is an animated card which shows the spread of the most known religions over the last 5000 years. How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world’s most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, […]
Usually, eyetracking technology (tracking where people are looking at) is only found within usability labs. The technology requires expensive hardware and has to be calibrated before each use. Usually the tracking only works over short distances (from user to screen). A little different are things with the eyebox2 by xuuk. This little device claims to […]
Why would anyone want to make stories interactive? There has been a lot of research on the topic of interactive dramaturgy, but very little attention has come to the question “why bother?”.
Often, interactive stories are created to give the user more influence on the progress of the story. Striving for agency (see [Murray 1998], p. 126) power is diverted from the author to the user. Some have even called the user a co-author of an interactive story (e.g. [Tanenbaum 2007]). This leads to an difficult question: […]
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could store sunlight in a preserving jar? Something like that must have wandered through Tobias Wong’s mind when he got the idea to Sun Jar. Sun Jar is a jar which stores sun energy at day using solar cells. At night, it uses this energy to power LED lights […]