Gizmodo: Installation

MIT's 3D Installation Pwns Roger Rabbit

Mark Wilson — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:18:32 EST

Given that we've covered the topic of real-time 3D animation in 2D video signals before, we must be fairly obsessed with the topic. But placing a 3D CG image into a video signal and manipulating said signal is still, in our book, pretty freakin' cool. Here's a tech demo of 'Installation' by MIT Media Labs. After you are done drooling over their hot camera/display, watch as they place 3D objects into the image and pan around the room. We can't wait until the technology serves its ultimate purpose and Madden places a leaner version of himself on the football field to show "what he would have done" during that last play. [MIT]

Park To Play Lets You Use Your Car as a Gaming Joystick

AddyDugdale — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:58:45 EDT

Esoteric Dutch blog Fresh Creation went to the Holland Innovation fair in, surprise, the Netherlands, and they found this crazy little — well, big, actually — thing. Park To Play lets you play games — Pong, Tetris, Pinball, Space Invaders etc — with your car. Yep, you didn't hear wrong. Part art installation, part crazy, what-have-they-been-smoking-over-in-them-thar-low-countries-coffee-houses, they've rigged out the steering wheel and doors with sensors so that you can use the car to control the game. Headlights, brakes, car doors, they all become buttons to control the game with. I like the fact that the pinball flippers are controlled by the car doors. [Fresh Creation]

Click On This Link, Pop This Balloon

Charlie White — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:15:00 EDT

Gizmodians, get your mice ready, because here's "Blogged," a Web 2.0 experiment/art installation where the object of the game is to pop this balloon with your clicks. It's expanded a little bit by every visit to this website. For the rest of today (May 31), each time someone lands on Bill Shackelford's website at The Ohio State University, an air compressor hooked up to this balloon will run for one second.

Watch it get bigger and bigger via a live video shot of the balloon expanding until it reaches 6 feet in diameter and ultimately pops. Will there be enough visits to pop the balloon before the end of the day? It's all up to you. C'mon peeps, let's pop this sucka! – Charlie White

Blogged [billshackelford.com]

Fototron2000 Robot Artist Paints With LEDs, Spits Out Polaroids

Charlie White — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:04:51 EDT

This is not your father's photo booth. Step into the Fototron2000 with its robot artist lurking within, and you may never look at yourself the same way again. The techno-beast's arm has LEDs at the end of it, and while you stand there it paints you with the LED light. Then its computer artist brain extracts the brightness contours of its images and does a long exposure of these edges on Polaroid film.

The result is a wild-looking photo that you can take along with you. Check out the gallery below to see what this baby can do. – Charlie White, videography by Richard Blakeley

Fotron2000, A robotic sketch artist/photobooth [Fototron2000]