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Archive for September, 2007

Yahoo! Design Innovation Team

The (new?) Yahoo! Design Innovation Team has released a collection of data vizualisations, including I, You, She, He, an application that uses live questions from Yahoo! Answers to generate an overall impression of people’s raw feelings. And Delicious DNA, that shown the popularity of users locating each other’s interests through bookmarking.

Posted September 24, 2007 10:09 pm by David Brown 0 Comments

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Harry the dancing hair

Posted September 24, 2007 9:03 am by David Brown 0 Comments

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1999 A.D (shopping from home)

Oh the future is so now.

Posted September 24, 2007 8:49 am by David Brown 0 Comments

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Bertie the Pipebot

That’s Bertie the Pipebot, a character drawn by Australian painter and comic book artist Ashley Wood.

Posted September 24, 2007 8:48 am by David Brown 0 Comments

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History of TV Laugh Track

Slate has a video-illustrated history of behind-the-scenes laughter: “Early television audiences expected their comedies to come with laughter, as laughter had been a fixture of radio comedies. The laughter, though, was live, and it was as much for the performers as for the TV-watching audience. Many of the earliest TV and radio comics had come up through vaudeville, and the idea of performing to an empty studio was alien to them.”

Posted September 24, 2007 8:46 am by David Brown 0 Comments

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After the paint had settled

Find out how the Bravia paint advert affected the local residents? Funny spoof.

Posted September 17, 2007 4:55 pm by Michael Watson 0 Comments

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SecondLife in FirstLive

Ever been on SecondLife ? If the answer is yes then you’ll laugh at this.

Posted September 12, 2007 10:47 am by Gregory Roekens 0 Comments

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Wake N’ Bacon

If like this blogger you’re sick of being woken up by an alarm clock that reminds you of a malfunctioning robot from a 70s era episode of Dr. Who, these enterprising young chaps could have the answer. Their Wake N’ Bacon eases you into the land of the conscious using only the power of sizzling pork. A frozen piece of bacon is placed in the device the night before use. Then, 10 minutes before you’re due to wake up, 2 halogen lamps kick in to slow cook the bacon right in time. Genius.

Posted September 7, 2007 1:49 pm by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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Remote Play: the future of gaming?

The PlayStation 3’s newest firmware upgrade allows you to access your movies, photos, music and games through your PSP wherever you have an internet connection. We’ve heard for a while that remote storage will eradicate the need for us to all have large hard drives in the future but the remote gaming is the really interesting thing here. Our consoles won’t need to be uber-powerful, uber-expensive bits of kit to display amazing graphics or simulate ultra-realistic physics. Instead, the games and hardware will be stored remotely and all we’ll need is a nice screen, some buttons and a fast internet connection (because essentially, all it would be doing is showing an interactive video). Who’d have thought we’d see PS3 quality graphics on the PSP?

Posted September 4, 2007 3:07 pm by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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Google Earth adds a flight simulator

It’s pretty basic at this stage but once we start seeing more people render the world’s architecture in 3d it’s going to get a lot more interesting. That’s the power of the global brain, people! * Rants accepts no responsibility for the appalling song accompanying the above video.

Posted September 3, 2007 8:32 am by Alex Horner 1 Comment

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