The new Radiohead video is shot completely without a camera using advanced live action 3D scanners in development at UCLA.
Here is the making of video.
And the finished product.
The idea apparently came from electronic artist and UCLA researcher Aaron Koblin, whose work was featured in Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA.
This Scientific American post has more details.
We have a much more primitive device available at the lab that can scan small objects (No movement.) If you interested talk to lab coordinator, Kelly Egan.
A new art and technology group has formed in Baltimore: Dorkbot.
Don’t be scared of the name. Originating in New York the group is a meeting of artists, engineers and scientists interested in the crossover of their fields. Currently the group is meets once a month on Tuesdays at the Creative Alliance. The next meeting will be August 19th.
The meetings are mix of formal presentations of various art, science and engineering projects. In addition there is always an open forum at every meeting for impromtu presentations, annoucements and calls for help.
The website can be found at : http://bmoredorkbot.org/
This is an interesting web project. It is a way to map and network sensor data from various locations world wide. Individual attach their sensor devices to the network, to let others view. Perhaps taking room temperature of a flat in London, or humidity off the California cost. This project seems to provide a lot possibilities for collaboration and reuse.
The project is called Pachube (http://www.pachube.com/).
Originally from the Make Blog.
"New research that makes creative use of sensitive location-tracking data from 100,000 cellphones in Europe suggests that most people can be found in one of just a few locations at any time, and that they do not generally go far from home.
“Individuals display significant regularity, because they return to a few highly frequented locations, such as home or work,” the researchers found.
That might seem like science and mountains of data being marshaled to prove the obvious. But the researchers say their work, which also shows that people exhibit similar patterns whether they travel long distances or short ones, could open new frontiers in fields like disease tracking and urban planning."Read More
Here's some music we created from converting remote control signals to sound.
Better than watching TV.
"H.P. Unveils New Memory Technology"
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"SAN FRANCISCO — Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company’s original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages. On Thursday at the International World Wide Web Conference in Beijing, two Google scientists presented a paper describing what the researchers call VisualRank, an algorithm for blending image-recognition software methods with techniques for weighting and ranking images that look most similar." Read More…
"Tough action is required by US regulators to protect the principles that have made the net so successful, a leading digital rights lawyer has said.
Professor Lawrence Lessig was speaking at a public meeting to debate the tactics some net firms use to manage data traffic at busy times.
He said the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) should act to keep all net traffic flowing equally.
The FCC said net firms had a duty to tell customers about data management." Read More…
"Normally fragile and brittle silicon chips have been made to bend and fold, paving the way for a new generation of flexible electronic devices.
The stretchy circuits could be used to build advanced brain implants, health monitors or smart clothing.The complex devices consist of concertina-like folds of ultra-thin silicon bonded to sheets of rubber.
Writing in the journal Science, the US researchers say the chip’s performance is similar to conventional electronics. "Silicon microelectronics has been a spectacularly successful technology that has touched virtually every part of our lives," said Professor John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the authors of the paper."(BBC) Read More…
"Sun Microsystems is trying to do for computing what all the king’s horses and men failed to do for Humpty Dumpty. For decades, the semiconductor industry has broken silicon wafers into smaller chips to improve manufacturing yields.
Now Sun has found a way to reconnect the chips so they can communicate with each other at such high speeds that computer designers can build a new generation of computers that are faster, more energy-efficient and more compact." (NY Times) read more…