Dig the black-and-white vibe and the shading.
[Via KanyeBlog]
Category Archives: Video
“The Golden Age of Video”
AMAZING.
[Thanks, S. Moschella]
The only way to save magazines is to bring them to life
Photographer Alexx Henry and his team have created this video to show how creating a “living portrait” could be created and designed in a not-so-distant future. Here Henry is photographing triathlete Chris Lieto using the RED One and the Canon 5D Mark II cameras for Outside Magazine. With the newspaper and magazine industries slowly losing the battle against the Internet for providing news, pictures, and other content, animating text and images in these mediums might be the only way to save them from extinction.
[Via Gizmodo]
PhotoSketch magically turns a sketch into a montage
Photosketch, created by Tao Chen, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ping Tan, Ariel Shamir, and Shi-Min Hu at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore.
In simplistic terms, here’s how it works. A user draws a sketch and gives a label to each object in it (ie. bike, birds, boat). Then, the sketch is transformed into an actual picture with real object by “seamlessly stiching a background and several foreground items from photographs retrieved from the Internet in accordance with the sketch and text labels.”
Watch the video above to see the magic unfold, then check out samples in the gallery below.
[Via Gizmodo]
The Funkionide provides comfort that humans just cannot give
The Funktionide by German designer Stefan Ulrich.
Based on an intensive two month research (in cooperation with FESTO and the EMPA) concerning artificial muscles my work reflects upon how new technologies will change future products (and society), and the way we interact with them.
One day active materials such as electroactive polymers will drastically change the way we perceive products. Products will gain new dimensions ranging from changing tactile surfaces over active membranes to morphing shapes. Products of the future will be “alive” in a way.
[The Funkionide] is an amorph object whose intention is to provide the owner with an atmosphere of presence thus counteracting the feeling of loneliness. In the visions future people are lonely and with all the new dimensions products offer, humans will eventually turn to “robots” for emotional satisfaction.
Now if this isn’t one of the strangest things I have ever stumbled upon, I don’t know what is. So according to Ulrich, we will all live in a lonely future where only “robots” can provide the right amount of “emotion satisfaction” to give us a boost for the day. In this case, the “robot” is a giant morphing blob. Oh, how I hope such a bizzare future does not come true!
[Via Gizmodo; vimeo page]
Concept: The Rolltop, a laptop-to-go
The Rolltop, by Orkin Design, is purely a concept, an idea, a figment of imagination for now. The Rolltop features a 13-inch flexible OLED and multitouch display that can be fully ‘rolled out’ to transform into a larger 17-inch screen. It includes a detatchable stand that stores the device’s stylus, has a USB port, and functions as a power adapter. Although the Rolltop represents the future of the future of what laptop computing might be like, it sure is nice to at least witness such a cool gadget in an animated video (see above).
[Via Gizmodo]
Virtual Autopsy Table brings life to the dead
Virtual Autopsy Table. Developed by Norrköping Visualization Centre with CMIV.
Have a look at the inside of a human being. In this installation, with the help of an easy to use multi touch interface, the user can freely interact with stunning volumetric 3D datasets of real scanned human bodies.
The datasets in this demo have been created with state of the art techniques within medical imaging; Dual Energy Computed Tomography. The data has been imported straight from the scanners and has not been edited or modified before rendering, what you see is not a 3D model, it’s a full volumetric description of a human body.
The visualization techniques used in this table is already utilized successfully as a compliment to the conventional autopsy. Apart from avoiding cutting in the body the medical experts, such as coroners, can see things that are difficult to discover in a conventional autopsy. Furthermore, the technique opens up for new opportunities in countries where autopsies are not accepted due to cultural reasons. The technique will revolutionize the traditional health care in many areas.
Basically the Virtual Autopsy Table is a multitouch surface that allows you to manipulate 3D images of human bodies. How exciting and so very cool. Doctors (or more specifically, morticians) all around the world must be shaking their medical coats right now.
[Via Engadget; vimeo page]
Panasonic Fusion in-flight entertainment system
The Panasonic Fusion is what we all hope “the future of economy class seating and in-flight entertainment” to be. Panasonic has integrated a tablet-like screen into the back of an airline seat. With its supurb industrial design, the Fusion’s main goal is to give OEMs the ability to create their own user interfaces. As shown in the video above, such UIs could include Facebook and Twitter integration, along with TV and movie watching. If this in fact the future of airline seating, I will have to start travelling more often! Except to see the Panasonic Fusion being installed in various airlines by November 2010.
[Via Gizmodo; RunwayGirl]
Engadget goes hands-on with new Xbox Dashboard update
This is the anticipated update that will include Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, and Zune Video Marketplace integration. No release date has been issued yet.
For a more detailed look into the hands-on, check out Joystiq’s in-depth coverage.
Verizon: “There’s a map for that”
Looks like Verizon is about to play some hardball with AT&T. Yeah, the iPhone may have thousands of cool apps, but Verizon can boast its vastly superior 3G expansion. The question is, which is more important to you: thousands of games or better data reception?
[Via Engadget]
Andy Samberg does it again
JUST THROW IT ON THE GROUND. Directed by Jorma Taccone. The latest SNL Digital Short rocks.
In somewhat related news, it has been reported that Andy Samberg was contacted to host WWE’s RAW. The wrestling show will take place on October 26 in Buffalo. Although this has not been made official, Samberg has stated that a future SNL Digital Short will include “WWE superstars.” Looking forward to it.
[Via IGN]
DJ A-Trak shares “Wild Tour Story”
As seen on MTV2/Sucker Free’s “Wild Tour Story” Segment, even when you touring with Kanye things don’t always go according to plan.
[Via KanyeBlog; MCM vimeo page]