This week we’re looking at some of the projects shown at NYU’s ITP Winter Show. Jack Kalish designed this musical interface that takes control of your face. When I tried it, it only detected smiles and happy/mouth agape poses through facial mapping, but ostensibly it could be used to track a wide va
Last night found the Kill Screen crew at the Winter show for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. The bi-annual event is a showcase for the semester’s projects and can often provide a look into the future of technology. (Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley was a grad.) While the phrase “b
“What design does best is accelerate the adoption of new ideas,” opines Yves Behar of Fuseproject (who you might know from the One Laptop Per Child/NYC Condom projects) in the newest episode of PBS Arts’ Off Book. Nothing could be more up the alley for those who love and make games! This episode lo
The Next Web reports that a few savvy redditors discovered that a few unsavvy internet users have been trying to search for things on Google’s Facebook page (the aforementioned www.facebook.com/Google), and decided to help them out, posting links that they might be interested in. This eventually led
Chogrin with some classic Zelda-inspired pictures that remind us why we always tried to keep our hearts full-so that damn beeping would stop. [img: PencilMayhem]
Today’s Sims glitch showcases the addition of parasitic Sims growing out of other Sims.
Here’s something Microsoft and Sony should start chewing on before announcing new devices. Laura Wattenberg, writer for Slate and purveyor of BabyNameWizard.com recently talked about the rising trend of bestowing more human names on our technology, focusing specifically on Apple’s newest handheld cy
Not satisfied with urinal games (guess how they’re controlled)? Do you think more of life’s banalities should be gamified? Then you might want to take a look at the Game Strap, a hand-held game console that hangs from the handle straps found on buses and subways. The console, designed by Jiang Qian
The world’s is facing uncertain times: revolutions, Occupy protests squelched by all-too-liberal uses of police pepper spray and batons, and the looming threats of NDAA and SOPA hanging over our heads. It’s a lot to think about. In the meantime, here’s a video of a bearded dragon playing Ant Crushe
No need to choose between gaming and going to the bar when going to the bar is the game, right? In a flash of incredible ingenuity, Blogger Morskoiboy constructed, from scratch, a typewriter that mixes drinks based on the words you type. The machine includes its own very cool LCD screen (which us
In an interview with Gamasutra, director Goichi Suda, better known as Suda 51, mentioned that Takashi Miike, director of insanely violent movies like Ichi The Killer, had a cameo appearance in No More Heroes 2. GS: Ah, well Miike is pretty busy, so… He has a cameo in No More Heroes 2, though, did yo
With one vote cast and one vote counted, our award for best Christmas lights display goes to former Disney Imagineer Ric Turner who turned his house into a working version of Angry Birds. Running on two computers and 10 Light-o-rama 16 channel controllers, uses more than 20,000 lights and less than
Curious how likely you are to enjoy your commute on the NYC subway system? Thanks to the New York Times’ Hack Day, there’s an app for that. HappyStance is an app that took a data set comprised of tens of thousands of tweets, and parsed them for proximity to New York City subway stations and for two
Lego master builder Mike Doyle has posted an argument for pure mocs, or “my own creations,” Lego jargon for models that are built without the use of instructions. Doyle doesn’t think that models that make use of non-Lego material should count as Lego compositions, because it cheapens the awe that c
On Friday, NYU announced its MFA for game design for its Game Center: The Game Center MFA is a 2-year Masters of Fine Arts degree that explores the design and development of games as a creative practice. The curriculum is centered on the creation of games and includes game design, criticism, program
Scientists at M.I.T Media Lab, through the use of an ultrafast imaging system, have discovered a new way to capture light lassing through liquid and objects by recording an image in less than two-trillionths of a second. The project has a long and storied history detailed by John Markoff in yesterda
This is the next step in the venerable Pilotwings franchise. Controlled with a Wiimote or PS Move controller, naturally. And you’ll still have the best looking lawn on the block. [video: Youtube]
This Sims glitch highlights a pivotal scene from the new Expansion, The Sims: Movin’ to Elm Street.
Lego has announced a new Lego line aimed at girls, and some folks on the internet are crying foul. (Imagine that!) A post on Jezebel called out the sets for dumbly stereotyping girls with “pink blocks” and a “Disney Princess” motif. The bits I found interesting, however, were the reasons why girls g
The New York Times has an interesting piece out this week about languages constructed solely for the purpose of fiction. Invented languages have often been proposed to support anything from world peace to feminism, but few have been as successful as those of high fantasy and sci-fi. As with any new
One of the world’s greatest art museums is replacing their audio guides with the Nintendo 3DS. Exciting stuff. We are the first museum in the world to do this,” Agnes Alfandari, museum’s head of multimedia told AFP. The Japanese giant Nintendo is supplying 5,000 of the latest-generation consoles, wh
Pulmonaire’s Aftermath series of paintings show what happens when Katamari gets a little too real. The result is unsettling. [pic: Pulmonaire]
In a recent episode of PBS’s micro-documentary series Off Book, titled Generative Art – Computers, Data, and Humanity, Will Wright chimes in on “Spore and the Metabrain,” likening the world-evolving game to social media. Technology… is allowing us to group together in specialized online communities
Sure, we are familiar with the Call of Duty’s of the world where we are given full license to kill people with big guns and enjoy it. But there was something about Dutch company Pool Worldwide’s Google Shoot View that seemed a little…off. Using an API, the creative agency overlaid a huge hunk of gun
We’ve all heard it: the unemployment rate is depressingly high, the economy continues to waver, and the world is of course set to end next year. It’s looking pretty grim out there. But in a recent post by Dave Banks for Wired, the blogger makes a bold accusation that has had people talking throughou
