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ipod cluster media: multiple ipod touches get in sync to form giant display

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This interactive work of art uses 20 individual iPod Touches, tied together to produce synchronized visuals across all of the displays.

Created by Japan’s PROTOTYPE design team, iPod Cluster Media is an early proof-of-concept that stitches multiple independent iPod Touches into a hive-mind display wall. Each iPod Touch knows what the other one is up…

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November 7th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: interactive media players technology video

faceid: open locked doors with your face

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Imagine someday walking up to the front door of your home of office, and instead of whipping out your keys or RFID keycard, you stare into a facial recognition device that decides whether or not you’re really you. While this sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, this technology is real, and available…

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October 30th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: digital imaging technology video

coke can spy cams: i’d like to teach the world to snoop

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As digital video cameras keep getting smaller and smaller, you never know where one might be hiding. Next time you walk into a room and there’s a Coke can sitting on the table, you might want to check that it’s not a spy cam.

These Coke can spy cams each have a tiny little video…

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October 30th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets technology video

905 ping pong balls turned into an interactive video screen

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This unique art installation uses a canvas of 905 individual ping pong balls as a projection surface for interactive video imagery.

For his work titled 905, artist maybites suspended 67 strings of ping pong balls in a cylindrical formation, with each ball acting as a sort of pixel for projecting digital images. As an individual…

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October 29th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft interactive video

hp dreamscreen 100 and 130: digital picture frames on steroids

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HP’s new DreamScreen devices straddle the fine line between computer and digital picture frame. Like other digi-frames, you can view pictures without a computer. But with the DreamScreen, you can also wirelessly stream music, videos and photos from your PC or the Internet.

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October 26th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: audio gadgets home entertainment media players technology video

pink hd camcorder: because girls like digital video too

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More and more gadgets are starting to turn up in colors besides basic black, white or grey. It was only a matter of time before the good old camcorder got a colorful makeover – in pink.

This cheery pink digital camcorder is perfect for girls (and very confident men) who want to shoot video and…

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October 23rd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: digital imaging gadgets technology video

gather the gang, it’s time for a windows 7 torrenting party!

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Microsoft’s weird-ass marketing campaign telling people to hold Windows 7 parties was asking for a parody, and the folks at Funny or Die are happy to oblige.

Here’s a party that millions of pirates will surely be having: a Windows 7 torrenting party! As if giving out tips on how to download illegal stuff wasn’t…

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October 23rd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing just plain fun strange + wonderful video

calculator conceals tiny spy cam

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Do the guys in your company’s accounting department give you the creeps? Maybe it’s because they’re spying on you with their calculators.

That’s right, this ordinary looking Casio LCD desktop calculator has been retrofitted to conceal a tiny little video camera, perfect for snooping on your unsuspecting office buddies in between math equations.

From the…

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October 21st, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: digital imaging gadgets technology video

mitsubishi’s giant 155-inch oled display can expand to any size

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The television display size war is officially over. Mitsubishi showed off a 155-inch OLED display at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC) 2009 in Japan. If you’re going “155-inches! ZOMG” right now, then you’ll probably die of excitement when I tell you that the display is infinitely expandable. As in you could create a…

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October 8th, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: technology video

microsia makes molecular music

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Here’s a cool little PC program for creating ambient electronic music. And it sure looks purty while it’s doing it.

The setting for Andreas Illiger’s Microsia is inside of a virtual “plant cell” of a leaf. As you move your cursor around, you touch “cellular particles” which will be used as triggers for the ambient…

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October 3rd, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: audio interactive technology video

xbox 360 controller sings the blues in the xcm blue blood

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Looking for an Xbox 360 controller that’ll really make a splash when you have your friends over to play some games? Check out this beautiful blue beast from XCM.

The cool thing about the XCM Blue Blood is that it’s actually a kit that you can use to mod your boring white Xbox 360 controller…

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October 3rd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods video

berlin block tetris: where do you go when your floor disappears?

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This clever video by artist Sergej Hein offers a whimsical look at the world of old socialist housing, as seen through the eyes of Tetris.

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October 1st, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun video video games

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