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This new mobile phone out of China may look like your average smartphone, but under the hood it’s actually packing a tiny little projector. Too bad the images it produces look pretty horrendous.
The inappropriately named COOL GTW18 features a 3.2-inch 240 x 400 touchscreen display, and touts a built in LED mini-projector for…
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March 15th, 2010
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author: technabob
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LEGO has just released an official iPhone App. Is it as cool as you think it will be? Maybe, maybe not.
There’s just something about LEGOs that is completely timeless. Even though it’s been years since I used the bricks, I still love anything that’s connected to them. When I first heard about the…
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December 31st, 2009
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author: range
digital imaging just plain fun mobile tech
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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…
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October 30th, 2009
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author: technabob
digital imaging technology video
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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…
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October 29th, 2009
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author: technabob
geek art + craft interactive video

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Pac-Man pain assessment gauge, spotted on Flickr. Currently, I feel a little Woopop myself.
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February 3rd, 2009
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author: technabob
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No, these striking images weren’t made using Photoshop trickery. They were actually taken using a unique process which involves placing photographic paper onto an object, placing them both on a high-voltage plate, then cranking up the juice.
Referred to as Kirlian photography, the technique dates back to a 1939 discovery (by a man named…
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January 25th, 2008
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author: technabob
strange + wonderful
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I’m not sure how I missed this amazing interactive display concept when it first surfaced, but it’s cool enough that I thought it deserved a mention, even if it is but a distant memory.
The system used an array of thousands of individual mechanical irises, each designed to react to the amount of light…
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January 1st, 2008
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author: technabob
digital imaging interactive
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While a number of companies are working on miniature video projection technology, every one I’ve seen is still just at the prototype stage. While it’s not as tiny as some of the designs being shown by TI, Microvision and Explay, these projectors are actually available for purchase.
China’s Oculon has revealed their new pocket-sized…
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November 20th, 2007
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author: technabob
digital imaging gadgets video
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This odd-looking photo printer from HP has a style that you’ll either love or hate. Reminiscent in some ways of the original egg-shaped iMac models from the late 1990s, the Photosmart A826 printer looks a bit like something out of an old science fiction movie.
While its design might be a bit outlandish, functionally,…
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October 21st, 2007
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author: technabob
computing digital imaging
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Interactive artist Marcus Graf created this dramatic video display window which keeps a watchful eye on passersby.
The piece, entitled I, ball used a webcam along with special processing software to detect people as they pass the display window. A series of digitized eyeball movements then follow the those who approach the window. The…
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October 16th, 2007
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author: technabob
design interactive
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The Diana camera was a really cheap plastic camera that was made by the Great Wall Plastic Factory in Hong Kong in the 1960s. At the time, it was just that, a piece of junk. But over the years artists have discovered that the crummy little camera’s flaws ended up producing some really dreamy…
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August 30th, 2007
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author: technabob
gadgets retro
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It’s nice to see the occasional digital camera that’s firmly grounded in it’s traditional photographic roots. The Leica D-Lux 3 features styling that harkens back to the clean lines and simplicity of their earlier film-based cameras, but is updated with all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a modern shooter.
The D-Lux 3…
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February 4th, 2007
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author: technabob
design digital imaging
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