The stainless steel Instant Trend concept watch receives Facebook and Twitter notifications by hooking up to your smartphone via Bluetooth. Buttons on the side of the watch let you scan through the messages. And if you think that’s neat, listen to how bizarre reading the actual time is: the pixelated bars you see in the image above represent the time in hours, minutes, and 10-minute blocks. “Reading the time is simple, just add the blocks; 12 blocks for hours, 5 blocks for groups of 10 minutes and single minutes 1-9.” Did I mention this is a concept device?
Staying true to the ideals of creativity and innovation, with a theme of “Truth vs. Deception”, 20 directors came together to create a ground-breaking collection of short films that use live-action, effects, animation, comedy, action and verité. Twenty 120 remains dedicated to the definition of creative – an original product of human invention or artistic imagination – by celebrating the work of artists around the world.
Controlling a computer using nothing but your hands. A feat we’ve all seen done before by Mr. Cruise in Minority Report. As part of a final project in a digital media course, a couple of MIT students have created an extremely crude version of what we saw in the sci-fi movie. Using gloves with LED tips and a webcam, the students demo how an on-screen image can be manipulated with various hand gestures. So we’re not there yet, but at least we’re moving forward. Take a look at the gloves in the gallery below.
The ArcelorMittal Orbit, designed by artist Anish Kapoor, is “set to become UK’s largest sculpture.” The Orbit is being built as an attraction site just in time for the 2012 Olympics at the Olympic Park site in London.
[The sculpture] will consist of a continuous looping lattice of tubular steel. Standing at a gigantic 115m, it will be 22m taller than the Statue of Liberty in New York and offer unparalleled views of the entire 250 acres of the Olympic Park and London’s skyline from a special viewing platform. Visitors will be able to take a trip up the statuesque structure in a huge lift and will have the option of walking down the spiralling staircase.
Don’t you think this would make for one hell of a rollercoaster? Addtional images in the gallery below.
From Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka comes Stellar, a lamp of sorts…
For ‘stellar’, Tokujin has brought together the explorations made in his previous work, with the intentions of creating a ‘star’, a large spherical illuminated crystal mass, descending from the sky, emitting rays of light into the exhibition space.
Essentially it’s an extremely bright lamp. It just happens to be beautifully crafted. And it’s made of Swarovski crystals.
The table consists of 22,742 pieces clicked together with traditional lego construction techniques (no glue), a 136mm grommet is located in its centre. It sits on a polished Stainless Steel square hollow section structure built by B.A. Engineering of Prussia St and is topped with a 10mm sheet of toughened glass manufactured by Action Glass.
Ah, to sit at the head of a Lego boardroom table. Imagine…
Dean Kamen is known to many as the inventor of the failed Segway transportation vehicle. But now he’s clearly moved on to bigger and better things. In conjunction with the Defense Department and DARPA, Kamen’s been developing an advanced prosthetic arm internally called “Luke” (named after Luke Skywalker). Luke is being made specifically for injured U.S. troops who tragically lose their arms in battle. It is by for the most impressive prosthetic I’ve ever seen in practical use. See for yourself in the video above.
TV’s Craig Ferguson from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson made a Twitter account. Then he decided to call all of his followers his “robot skeleton army.” Then Grant Imahara from MythBusters send Ferguson a tweet ultimatum: if Ferguson could somehow get Imahara to exceed 100,000 followers, he would help him create an actual robot skeleton sidekick for the late night show. Since Ferguson had a massive “robot skeleton army” it did not take long for them to help Imahara gain over 120,000 followers. Also, Ferguson happens to be a huge Mythbusters fan so he was psyched for all this to happen. Watch the video above to learn about Geoff Peterson, robot skeleton sidekick.
How will Geoff Peterson interact on the show? Says Imahara: “In auto-mode setting, Craig can sit at his desk with a black box and hit any of seven red buttons for these pre-recorded responses. In manual mode, there’s radio-control movement. [Geoff can be put] “on a stand… and by remote-control, Craig can move [the robot’s] head, jaw, and arm.” “[Ferguson’s] very into the design of it. They have big plans for Geoff Peterson. Craig and the writers think they may want to send Geoff out into the world, interview people — things like that.”
You can see the recently unveiled Geoff Peterson in action on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. It airs weeknights at 12:37PM on CBS.
Calling all Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog fans! Graphic designer Doctor Octoroc has put together the story of Dr. Horrible in old school 8-bit fashion. He calls it “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Game” and it plays out like an old Pokeman Nintendo GameBoy game. Says the good doctor: “All music, sound effects, graphics and animation were created by me as a tribute to Dr. Horrible (Joss Whedon) and the NES.” This really is a must-watch if you’re into the story and music of Dr. Horrible. It’s quite brilliant, actually.
CLICK HERE to watch Act 1. If you have troubles viewing it there, watch it on YouTube. DocOc promises the next two acts are on their way. (I will alert you when they’re available to watch.)
Update: Act 2 is now up in all its 8-bit glory! CLICK HERE to access the homepage and click “Load Game” to select Act 2. Or watch it on YouTube. Act 3 is in the works…
Update 2: The final act is up! Again, CLICK HERE to access the homepage and click “Load Game” and select Act 3. Or opt for the YouTube page.
