Category Archives: Video

Music video: OK Go: “WTF”

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OK Go is jumping off the treadmill and into a strange new world with their lastest video titled, “WTF.”  It uses the same “datamashing” or compression artifact technology used in Kanye West’s “Welcome to Heartbreak” music video.  OK Go is expected to drop their next album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, this January.  “WTF” is available as a single on iTunes.

[Via KanyeBlog]

Music video: Shakira – Did It Again (Featuring Kid Cudi)

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Sure, I’ve already posted the music video to Shakira’s “Did It Again” when it first came out.  But here’s a new version featuring Kid Cudi in the remix.  And look at it this way: this just gives you a reason to watch Shakira shake her hips and jump around on a bed again.  Win-win.

She Wolf is in stores now.

[Via KanyeBlog]

Surface recognizes the third dimension

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Microsoft Surface learns a new trick with the Lumino Project.  Surface has always been able to recognize physical objects when they are placed down.  With the newly constructed (and still being tested) Lumino blocks, Surface can recognize when a number of blocks are stacked on top of each other, and these various three dimensional orientations can correspond with different outcomes.  Watch the video above to see examples.  Though these examples may seem juvenile at the moment (re: checkers), the researchers can see this kind of technology being implemented in the future by architects and engineers.

[Via Gizmodo]

Creepy clock design

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This clock features an LCD face that plays a 12-hour loop of an old guy telling the time by painstakingly erasing and re-recording each minute as it goes by with nothing but an eraser and a marker.  At the moment I’m kinda second guessing that there really is a man trapped behind the clock telling the time for us..

This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009.

[Via Gizmodo]

Experiment: Public urination bin

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The Wheelie Bin Urinal, designed by Stephan Bischof (from England, obviously).

This “Wheelie Bin Urinal” is a provides a place to go potty in the street, and it’s ingeniously disguised as a trash can.

For now, it’s just an experiment to see if (and when) people would use these trash can-turned-urinal stations when they’re out and about.  In fact, “early prototypes of the bin were installed on busy roads in the Lewisham borough of London, in which people’s frequent interactions with the bins were documented.”  You gotta see this to believe it after the break.

[Via Gizmodo; DesignBoom]

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Concept: Microwave with built-in YouTube player

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The Castoven is designed by researchers at Japan’s Keio University.  Besides being a conventional microwave, the Castoven sports a 10.4 inch LCD screen on the door and internal speakers.  Crunchgear breaks it down for us:

The main idea is to display a YouTube video whose length depends on the time you need to heat up what’s inside the Castoven. Say, you want to prepare a lunch box that takes 3.30 minutes to be ready. The Castoven would then automatically pull a video from YouTube with that length and display it on the screen until the meal is finished.

So the future of microwaving a Poptart is watching YouTube videos, huh?  I’ll take it.  Additional images below and a video of this in action after the break.

[Via Gizmodo; Crunchgear]

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