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Animated gifs with embedded MP3s that play in WinAMP? OH YEAH! We’ve got an AOTS gif just for you right here.

Want to make your own? Here’s how you can add an MP3 to any GIF file.
 
For the following commands, replace file.mp3 and file.gif
with the names of your MP3 and GIF files. Unix, Linux, and Mac users
note that the command below will overwrite your original gif with the
new gif.
 
Unix, Linux, & Mac OS X Users:
Enter this ‘concatenate’ command into a terminal window:
cat file.mp3 >> file.gif
 
To learn more about concatenate, type:
man cat
 
Windows Users:
Open a Command Prompt window and enter this command:
copy /b file.gif + file.mp3 newfile.gif
 
You’ll be able to view your GIF in a browser and play it in Winamp by dragging and dropping the file!

Here are some examples –> (Video) (sound)

As seen on AOTS

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]

Here’s a DIY teleprompter for the folks out there who are using web cams to do videoblogging or recording themselves speaking. It’s pretty simple, a couple CD cases and some HTML and you’re good to go. I think as we start using video conferencing more it might be a neat project to put all sorts of things on there, like instant messages, widgets, slides or maybe a RSS ticker, maybe not. Link.

[Via Make]

The Audio-Technica ATH-CM7ti Titanium Stick Earphones are the World’s first stick earphones made entirely with Titanium.

The CM7Ti delivers excellent harmonics, crystalline highs and solid
bass. They are very efficient, so you can play music loud and with no
distortion. The earphones use a neodymium magnet for maximum energy in
minimum size; ounce for ounce, Neodymium is far more powerful than
conventional Samarium Cobalt or Aluminum magnets, they have a High
frequency response of 10 - 45,000Hz.

The Audio-Technica ATH-CM7ti Titanium Stick Earphones retail for $159.00 USD and are available through Audio Cubes.

[Via motherdigital]

The May 2005 issue of Popluar Science has an article on Munich’s annual Recorder Race.
It’s a competition of classic “Walkman/Boom Boxes/Ghettoblasters” that
have been modified with wheels, gears, spoilers, etc. so that they can
race each other down a 15m gym floor powered by their tape drive
mechanisms. Obviously they would all want to run in “fast forward”
mode. Here are the Recorder Race mission and rules.

[Via laughingsquid]