Pour Over, And Over, And Over…
Disclaimer: I might have gotten to drink a free cup or two while doing this. Just saying. As some of you may know, Mars Cafe opened up the Mars Satellite in the Foundry Co-Working space this week. With pour-over coffee being artfully crafted only feet from our desks, I couldn’t resist capturing the process with the help of some cinemagraphs. So stop by, say hi, and grab some tasty coffee. Mars Satellite is open from 7AM to 1PM during the week, and you can follow their progress on Twitter here:... read more →
Introducing nannagram
Get started at nannagram.com – it’s free! A huge thank you to Tony Bohnenkamp for the voiceover and audio work on this video. Find him on twitter @ToneBoneDSM and his website tonybohnenkamp.com. Why we built it. So, our grandmother lives in Denmark. One year ago, we gave her one of those digital picture frames, loaded up a bunch of photos, and gave it to her for Christmas. You should have seen her face. She loved it. She wasn’t geeking out about the frame, but she saw the photos, and she would watch them over and over again. I really don’t... read more →
Mind Control
A mind control game seen at the phaeno experience center, located in Wolfsburg, Germany. The object was to “relax” as much as possible as brain activity was monitored. The most “relaxed” person would win by moving the ball on the table to their side. Pretty cool – we’ve seen these sort of monitoring devices online. A bit pricey for now, but there’s a lot of possible applications for this technology once they get all the kinks figured out. If you ever make it to Wolfsburg (northern Germany), I strongly suggest checking out the Phaeno. They got all sorts of cool... read more →
Kinect Magic
Finally had some time this weekend to play with kinect. Nothing too special yet, just segementing pixels based on depth ranges. It’s implemented on the gpu and runs pretty fast (450fps on MBP 9600M GT). I’d like to extend it so that you can drag 3D shapes into the “room” and interact with them (almost like a gui builder for things like microsoft lightspace). 2D planes can emulate cursors (I do have a cursor working for 2D tracking, but no video yet), a cylinder can be a slider, other regions can have custom functionality. Then we can design interaction and... read more →
