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Friday, December 19, 2008
Gadgets

ReedBox Recreates Eno’s Bloom iPhone App With Magnets

10:40AM John Mahoney | Sometimes it’s the simplest ideas, executed well, that work. At ITP, this controller interface by John Kuiphoff uses magnets placed on a grid to control a Bloom-like synthesiser, play games, and more. More »
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Gadgets

Channel Jackson Pollock’s Drunken Splatters With a Wiimote

9:40AM John Mahoney | The DraWiing Jackson Pollock project uses an IR detector, a projector and a Wiimote to recreate the drip-and-splatter works of everyone’s favourite hard-living abstractionist. It’s really fun, as you can see. More »
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Peripherals

Accelerometer Headphones Control Music Via Headbanging

7:40AM John Mahoney | One of the projects that caught our eye at NYU’s ITP winter show last night (the program that brought you Big Screens) were the Head(banger)phones, accelerometer-equipped to change the music as you bob your head. More »
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Games

Simon Stabs Game Channels Your Inner Bishop

9:45AM Benny Goldman | Remember that scene in Aliens with Bishop and the knife? ITP student Aram Chang made a nerve-racking game out of it. In Simon Stabs, you and your opponent take turns sticking a “knife” between your fingers, making a pattern that must be mimicked by the other guy, who then adds to it. You only have a few seconds to stab; one false move and you lose—hopefully just the game and not any fingers. I tested it out, and as you can see from the video, I’m no android. And I didn’t even have the added pressure of Bill Paxton screaming like a sissy. In case you forgot how the pros do it, Bishop’s clip is below. [Aram Chang; ITP 2008] More »
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