Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

Life is a game of patterns and chance, and those who play well will win.

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Sun Aug 9

Rhonda - 3D sketching

Rhonda is the new sketching tools that will finally allow us to do it as it was always meant to be - in three dee! :-) The author is Amit Pitaru who has been working on this for quite a while (more than you have imagined, but not for more reasons like technical complexity).

In the first two minutes of the video you can see Amit’s collaborator James Peterson’s creating a 3D sculpture that was done in - 2003! The rest of the video contains some of his works from 2004 and 2005. In case you wondered, music in the video is Neil Young’s “Out On The Weekend”. From product point-of-view the project has been dormant since, while it has been capturing far too little eye balls in galleries, museums, festivals and conferences.

In a nice turn of events, two well-known software art engineers (according to Google I coined a new term) have joined the project - Zach Liebermann (of OpenFrameworks, who also took part in Toyota iQ Font campaign I wrote about) and Zack Gage (of synthPond, the spacial sequencer).

Want to be in the know when Rhonda will be out? Follow rhondaforever on Twitter.

Do you want to beta test this baby? Leave your name and email on Rhonda website.

[via Peter Kirn @ Creative Motion]

Wed Jun 3

Emotiv SDK available for $500

Emotiv, a company that makes a neuroheadset (mind control baby!), has released Emotiv SDK for developers and researchers for the price of $500. As far as I can tell, SDK will be shipped with a game by Demiurge Studios built on Unreal engine. Sounds like something worth anticipating.

This is an early commercial and serious contender in the field of brain-computer interfaces based on electroencephalography (EEG) technology. INo, you don’t need to shave your head.

Get the SDK now
Sat May 23

The human side of the human interface.

Very cute and thought provoking… :-)

[via inquata [via sger]]
Fri Oct 24

Now get a load of this - Interactive Mirror!

Mirror, mirror on the wall…

A guy called Alpay Kasal of LIT Studios has created the Interactive Mirror, using an LCD projector, and you guessed it – a mirror.

The mirror gives a user the ability to draw, interact with animations, play games, view photos, or even show how a custom t-shirt would look if you were wearing it. The device operates via touch technology. It lacks the multi-touch feature if you wondered. What an amazing array of things can happen using such screens. One thing is sure I wouldn’t plan Unreal Tournament on this beauty. ;-)