Sometimes I’m glad that my arm wrestling machine died in a lack of interest.
TOKYO - Lose a game of chess to a computer, and you could bruise your ego. Lose an arm-wrestling match to a Japanese arcade machine, and you could break your arm.
Distributor Atlus Co. said Tuesday it will remove all 150 “Arm Spirit” [...]

AWESOME!!!!!!

I know Parrot needs cable to keep checking if anything exploded today. That’s where this handy map comes in. All the latest morbid news and shocking possibilities from around the world.
I see that a bird tested positive for west nile just near us.
joy!
Link: RSOE HAVARIA Emergency and Disaster Information Service
BONUS: check out this [...]

Architect and researcher Pasi Kolhonen wants to reveal with his City Wipeout installation just how many images, texts and signs we find in our everyday environment. The installation consists of pictures which unveil an ordinary face of the city centre. The pictures are reflected one-by-one on the wall. The user interface allows the spectators to [...]

From Information Aesthetics:
a collection of animated visualizations based on the simple idea of harmonic relationships in sound & music, as described by experimental film pioneer John Whitney. each of the 48 dots moves in a circle on a 3 minute cycle. at the end of 3 minutes, the outermost dot will have moved around the [...]

Cool Shockwave image viewing interfaces.Try them both out.
Link: “Light” and “Information”

Hey Y’all. I finally got time to put up some photos and descriptions of the Interactive Train Simulator I and some colleagues built for Norfolk Southern Railroad.
Check it out: Perfect Prototype»Blog Archive » Norfolk Southern Experience

This is a great post on a collection of multi-touchscreen projects out there. I’m interested in this for 2 reasons.
One is to make money
The other is that computer interfaces have been fairly stable for 10-15 years, and we are going to see some breakthroughs in the next few years that will change [...]

Ok, this really shows off the power of Director (and begrugingly, Flash), which as you may or may not know, is my major source of income and one of my true loves of the computer world.
In this game, you get to use your webcam to shoot a basketball into the hoop, collecting and avoiding rewards [...]

This is cool stuff, not only for the retro 90’s pixel design, but for the geographical sense of space that is missing from Text Headlines.
This RSS news reader graphically show the locations of news items from around the world. Jumping around to display headlines as they appear. While this doesn’t win the cold-efficiency award [...]

I’ve been working on a project here, that i’d like to talk about soon (can’t now ’cause it’s super secret) but since all i’ve been doing is working on this project, there is some cool stuff that i’ve gathered that i’d like to share, and maybe make sound important like you should care, because i’m [...]

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m@terials: “3D Theater” on a Table

m@terials, developed by Jitsuro Mase, use an off-the-shelf LCD projector to display a “3D theater” on a table.