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The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to perform random temporal jumps between image frames. The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate “islands of time” as well as “temporal waves” are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that “cuts” the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie.

Read More about the Khronos Projector (text taken from there site)

Bymerging a plain overhead projector with a more modern digital videoprojector and a computer vision system, Golan Levin and ZacharyLieberman have developed (well, in 2004) what they call Manual Input Sessions. Essentially interactive and dynamic shadow puppets, the vision system analyzes the shadows you cast over the analog project with your hands and augments the output via the digital projector, adding sounds and graphics based on the movements and forms of your hands. Even though this is the sort of thing that’s more proof-of-concept than on its way to the market (for now), if Fisher Price could produce a budget version all-in-one unit, this would make a phenomenal children’s toy—one I would quite possibly have to steal from neighborhood children in exchange for candy. Check out the video and watch through to act 2 (at least) to understand how awesome this stuff is.

Project Page [via gizmodo + WMMNA]

Paul
Cocksedge has managed to fuse art, electricity and light together to
form some very creative pieces. Take “Watt?” for example:
Watt? is designed with purity in mind. The elegant switch is based on the natural conductive properties of the graphite found in pencils.
Connecting two points with the a pencil line completes the circuit and
the light is switched on. When the line is rubbed out the light is
switched off.

Even better is the crystal and laser
chandelier, composed of a Swarovski crystal that catches and splices
the light all across the room, along with a vase that lights up when
there’s a (live) flower present. As Paul’s portfolio requires an access
code to explore, MoCo Loco’s your best bet for good pictures and
details.

Crystallize [MoCoLoco]
Artist Page [PaulCocsedge]
[Via gizmodo]

By information aesthetics::inf*

1,000 individually controllable LED lights ordered in a 10x10x10 matrix act as a low resolution 3D television display. live video or audio data are transformed in dynamic light sculpture ‘visualizations’ in real time. [jamesclar.com]

[Via infosthetics]

Sometimes all you need is a simple subversion of an everyday object to give yourself a “David Blaine” moment.

This time, it’s a balloon lamp. Just tear the packaging, blow up the balloon and throw in the LED and there you have it – a cool, affordable lamp.

Plus,
with a simple lithium coin battery, you could possibly use it for over
a hundred hours continuously and you don’t have to deal with messy
wires.

[Via sensoryimpact]

This
makes me wish I owned a cafe because if I did, I’d be bribing Steven
Blyth and Matty Sallin to install their Chit Chat installation in
there. So if any of my customers were talking with each other, a speech
bubble would project above their heads as they talked. The bubble would
swell with the text “blah blah” as they continued to talk and the text
would reflect the volume of your speech by changing size and attributes
(bold, italic).

All of this would take place in Flash. A
script would read the amplitude recorded and generate the proper “blah”
graphic. And if one of them remained silent, they would eventually get
a corresponding thought bubble.

(more…)

[Via sensoryimpact]

The
Pak-Lite LED Flashlight is a small, waterproof and super-efficient
flashlight that snaps onto any 9 volt battery. On low power, one
battery will run for 600 hours. The Pak-Lite will run for 75 hours on
its high brightness setting. It is available with white, green, red or
blue LED colors. Case color matches the LED color. The Pak-Lite also
comes in a glow-in-the-dark body. The Pak-Lite retails for $23.99. The
Glow-in-the-Dark Pak-Lite retails for $26.99.

[Link]-[Via notcot]

The Censtron Wave Vessel takes any audio signal and transforms it into an amazing visual display. It is so easy to use, just plug it into the wall, insert the 1/4″ audio jack, and turn it on. Once you turn it on, you can switch through three exciting modes, which are easily accessible from the switch located on the top of the unit. Words can not do this justice, watch the movie and see it for yourself, you will be amazed.

Features:
1/4″ Audio Input
Simulated Wood Grain
Three Way Mode switch

If you’re interested in how to do this mod, go here. Though it is not recommended because of the risk of injury involved.

[Via Censtron]

Direct
from Sweden, Parans shows off their Skyport system: light-collecting
panels which you install on your roof, allowing them to feed a remote
part of your house with the purest of natural light. The Skyport system
uses SunWire—”light transporting cable” (read: fiber optics)—to bring
sunlight to its connected “luminaries”. Björks, as they’re called, are
specially designed to generate a light output of up to 4,000 lux,
presumably on a clear day. The SunWire allows for you to distribute
sunlight up to three stories down into a building and the Björks come
in three different shapes, letting you maximize light output for a
particular room’s layout. Pricing and availability are heretofore a
mystery, so you’ll have to wait for now.

(Update: Marcus Fransson from Parans was kind enough to share
the price list with me. A SkyPort unit costs roughly $4,500 (less
shipping) which includes 15 feet of SunWire. A large Björk comes in at
around $1,200 and a small one is $420. They ship directly from Sweden,
and they’re available now.)

Product Page [Parans via MoCoLoco]

[Via gizmodo]

Digital Persistence of Memory.
Inspired by Salvador Dali’s melting clocks, this digital clock
prototype designed by Ross McBride has a silicon exterior that’s soft
to the touch. Details include a power cord that run out the bottom of
the clock so that it can be concealed by a tabletop or shelf. Other
designs include the electro-luminescent Time Table (reminiscent of de light), and the multi-functional Swiss Army Table. Via Wrist Fashion.

DESIGNER: Ross McBride
LINK: normal.as
LINK: wristfashion.com

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