How aesthetically beautiful are your photos? Try out Acquine, an Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine. Welcome to the brave new world of computational aesthetics!
Clever – video of evolving a human face using a genetic algorithm. A face detector is used for the fitness function.
Time to start gaming for mental health?
Haunting and beautiful sand art “animation” – [...]
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Neat video showing off Paper Computing. Author electronic circuits by painting and dropping electronic components on paper! (found via Turbulence.org)
Any ideas on how I can design and build a Charisma Augmentation Device…? Learn about the science of charisma.
Handy handy – a useful new and free visualisation tool called Parallel Sets has just been released.
An arty [...]
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Sensisphere is a multitouch hemispherical display that lets you drag, move, push and pull digitial things with your hands. Pop over to YouTube and see it in action.
Scientists have created an entire synthetic genome. Another important step towards making biological nanobot “machines”, which would be extremely useful as smart malleable materials.
Very very blog relevant and [...]
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What would happen if your toothbrush could mate with another toothbrush?
Would you end up with an even better toothbrush – the best of both toothbrushes? How about if your toothbrush mates with 5, 10 or 15 different toothbrushes, with each new toothbrush in turn mating with another new toothbrush?
If you could decide which toothbrushes get [...]
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Lovely overview about The History Of Visual Communication.
A bunch of interviews with User Experience pioneers.
Can you touch it? Workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for displays (thanks Aaron). Invent a new interaction technique for the likes of Microsoft’s Surface and the DiamondTouch.
Can you sing it? World’s First HCI Rap
Chill out and sketch a personal kaleidoscope. [...]
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Crayon Physics is a sketch based game thats like the projects mentioned in Sketch & Draw = Create & Design Interactive �Things�. You really should try it out. Initially I thought it’d be the same as playing The Incredible Machine but it feels much looser and free form. Its knock your socks off pretty and [...]
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Recently I came across JennyLC’s Intimate Controllers project (via the always interesting we-make-money-not-art). She writes that the project involved “building game controllers into undergarments so that games are played through players physically touching one another. The goal of this project was to research and create objects that challenge the traditional notions and orientation of video [...]
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Some cute looking robots that evolve their own language. What makes a robot cute?
More design links than you can shake a stick at: Designfeast
Are you a 1 percenter? Check out Co-creators – its an interesting blog, which mixes in a dose of business sense when talking about aspects of a co-created malleable world.
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