It's become quite clear over the last several months that Apple is ready to bridge the mobile computing gap, with plans to develop a device that fits somewhere in between the iPhone and the MacBook. A recent Wall Street Journal article proclaimed that during his medical leave, CEO Steve Jobs has been working on that midsized mobile device, bigger than an iPhone but smaller than a MacBook.
"The world famous psychedelic-anime artist Takashi Murakami shocked the world in 2003, when he and Mark Jacobs designed the colorful ‘MONOCHROME MULTICOLOR’ series for Louis Vuitton. ‘SUPERFLAT MONOGRAM’, the promotion video for that series, became one of the most remarkable pieces of advertising art of the 21th century…
…Therefore Murakami created a new promo animation, called ‘SUPERFLAT FIRST LOVE’ which will be launched on Aprl 28th exclusive on Louis Vuitton’s new mobile site. Access to the site is provided through a revolutionary designed QR- code, which invites to ‘the fantasy world of Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton’."
Citysense is an innovative mobile application for real-time nightlife discovery and social navigation, answering the question, "Where is everybody going right now?"
Citysense shows the overall activity level of the city, top activity hotspots, and places with unexpectedly high activity, all in real-time. Then it links to Yelp and Google to show what venues are operating at those locations. Citysense is a free demonstration of the Macrosense platform that everyone can enjoy.
Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences—the “stuff” of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade. An emerging do-it-yourself culture of “makers” is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products they buy. And what they can’t purchase, they build from scratch. Meanwhile, flexible manufacturing technologies on the horizon will change fabrication from massive and centralized to lightweight and ad hoc. These trends sit atop a platform of grassroots economics—new market structures developing online that embody a shift from stores and sales to communities and connections.
Mobile Phone Development - Betavine Social Exchange: "Stephen Wolak from Vodafone Group R&D has contacted me about Betavine Social Exchange. Stephen is a great believe in crowdsourcing , so much so, he has crowdsourced the requirements for Betavine Social Exchange."
Google SearchWiki: "Google's experiment that allows users to vote and annotate search results is back and this time it has a name: Google SearchWiki. Justin Hileman is one of the lucky people who has access to the experimental feature: 'Things are a bit smoother this time. Moving results is a nice, polished animation. I can't wait for more community features to show up.'"
Google’s Answer to Facebook: Profile Search: "This afternoon Google posted about a new feature which enables users to search for “me” to find their own Google profiles. Google recently upgraded their profile features but the company is now investing heavily in making profiles a more integrated part of search. Want to find somebody on the web? If they’ve set up their Google profile properly, they will show up in a box that displays profile results (as pictured below)."
Its structure, derived from the Fibonacci Sequence and closely related to the Golden Ratio, is one of nature's most elegant. The Fibonacci Sequence is the set of numbers where each number is the sum of the previous two numbers. This simple sequence governs phenomena as diverse as the petal arrangement of roses, the breeding patterns of rabbits, and the shape of our galaxy. It is also evident in the design of the Great Pyramids, the composition of the Mona Lisa, and the construction of Stradivarius violins."
Flight pattern The Flight Patterns visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.
Bicycle Built for Two Thousand 2.088 voice recordings collected from online workers assembled into the song "Daisy Bell" - the first example of computer synthesized vocals. Each individual was prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard without knowledge of the final task. A collaboration with Daniel Massey. House of Cards Lasers and sensors are used to scan the band Radiohead into a three-dimensional particle-driven data experience. The code and data are launched on Google Code as an open source "music video without video" project. New York Talk Exchange Visualizations for the New York Talk Exchange, a project by the Senseable City Lab at MIT for the MoMA. New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of AT&T long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world.
levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.
The Artvertiser is an urban, hand-held, augmented-reality project exploring on-site substitution of advertising content for the purposes of exhibiting art. The project was initiated by Julian Oliver in February 2008 and is being developed in collaboration with artists Clara Boj and Diego Diaz.
First time of Datavisualisation Bird Flight by Etiene Jules Marey, 1882 Data information projects: The 1k Project
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Cloudmade CloudMade help you make the most of map data. We source our maps from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world. Our aims are to continue the democratization of geo data and to expand access to open geo data through a range of simple yet powerful tools and APIs. Cloudmade - Customade Maps Cabspotting Cabspotting traces San Francisco's taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay Area. The patterns traced by each cab create a living and always-changing map of city life. This map hints at economic, social, and cultural trends that are otherwise invisible. The Exploratorium has invited artists and researchers to use this information to reveal these "Invisible Dynamics." www.cabspotting.org/ Digg Labs The labs provide a broader (and deeper) view of Digg. A lot of stuff gets submitted to Digg every day, so good things can sometimes fly right past you. Labs projects look beneath the surface of the Digg community's activities. Labs projects are the results of collaboration with Digg partner stamen design. We've also released a public API for Digg so that anyone can turn Digg data into their own visualizations. http://labs.digg.com/ SFMOMA Artscope The SFMOMA Artscope is a visual browsing tool that allows to explore more than 3500 artworks in the collection. http://www.sfmoma.org/projects/artscope/ LOCOG A new map for LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games). The project organizes of the thousands of geocoded articles and photos that the London 2012 team are producing, highlight the ongoing works in the Olympic Park, London and the UK, and showcases the depth and breadth of information available on the main site. http://london2012.com/ Oakland Crimespotting Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities. If you hear sirens in your neighborhood, you should know why. Crimespotting makes this possible with interactive maps, e-mail updates, and RSS feeds of crimes in areas that you care about. We’ve found ourselves frustrated by the proprietary systems and long disclaimers that ultimately limit information available to the public. As citizens we have a right to public information. A clear understanding of our environment is essential to an informed citizenry. http://Crimespotting.org Many Eyes Many Eyes is an “open laboratory” for exploring the intersection of data visualization and user generated content. The folks at CUE have made available an application (or set of applications) which create on-the-fly visualizations of data sets that users of the site can upload. On the site’s about page, the group states its objective as the enabling of “a new social kind of data analysis.” http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com
