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You just need the elevator shoes to go with it. (Sorry about the headline.) [ITP]
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The slowest printer ever, the Blimpter floats freely, dropping ink as it passes the coordinate of a dot it wants to “print”, like an 1880s aerial bomber, painting a picture one spot at a time.
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The way it moves, it’s unnatural – it made me want to jump out of my skin.
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Augmented Shadow might be his graduate school project. Users manipulate encoded cubes that generate light and shadows, with the screentop’s flattened, vaguely tribal-but-gothic little world feeling almost Burtonesque. But with a crazy physics engine. Be afraid, little villagers:
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I.C.U. began as a project to explore mind control, but, constrained the limits of like, reality, it was boiled down to the next best thing: eye control.
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The age of cheap, plentiful sensors, tracking everything from heart rates to the noise pollution slowly driving everybody insane is here. Joe Saavedra’s modular neuroid is a wearable, reconfigurable sensor system that monitors pollution we probably don’t wanna know about.
