Gizmodo: pixels

Dreaming in Pixels

John Mahoney — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:20:00 EDT

Or digital electric sheep. Both possible with this 8-bit slumber mask, $22 shipped from Thailand. [Studiobo via Unplggd]

The Pixel Cloud Skyscraper Is a JRPG Dream Fortress

Mark Wilson — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:40:00 EDT

This digital cloud skyscraper was a finalist in Singapore's recent contest to design a pavilion for the World Expo 2010. And it's nothing short of wondrous.

By Singapore-based Design Act, "My Dream, Our Vision" is constructed from 3866 cubes of varying opacity, and serves as a physical manifestation of the intangible: digital information floating above the green landscape. Embodying "xin" (or "new"), visitors are beckoned inside by music to post their dreams of tomorrow, to incite innovation.

And it just looks really, really cool.

[Design Act and World Expo 2010 via Inhabitat]

Honda Creates Pixel Art From Hundreds of Car Headlights

Adam Frucci — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EDT

This new Honda ad uses hundreds of car headlights to make pixel art. It's neat looking, but you've got to wonder how much energy they wasted making this ad for a hybrid car. Ironic? [DailyWhat]

Street Art is Better with Pixels

Adam Frucci — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:30:00 EDT

This awesome street art was spotted here in NYC in the East Village, and I love it. Pixelart beats sloppy, illegible tagging any day of the week, thank you very much. Unfortunately, some jackass didn't agree. At least we have a picture of it in its original state. [Gothamist]

Human Pixels Perform Huge Real-Time Animation

Charlie White — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:20:00 EDT

These Samsung-sponsored dancers take football-stadium card flipping to the next level with this inspired routine. They combine computer-generated choreography, perfect synchronization, custom-designed costumes that can instantly reveal a variety of colors and a level of cooperation that's probably not even possible in America. Wow.

Samsung Dance [Neatorama]

Halloween Costume Greatest Hits: Dead Pixel

Travis Hudson — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:06:27 EST

This is one of the easiest and most innovative costumes I have seen today. The geekiness inside all of us absolutely despise dead pixels and this costume shares our hatred. I still don't understand the link between dead pixels and diskettes, though. And good luck explaining what you are to almost everyone you see out tonight.

Got a tech, or otherwise awesome Halloween costume, e-mail us some pictures at our tips address and your costume could get featured in your very own post (as long as the costume is cool enough)! – Travis Hudson

Dead Pixel [happydesigns]

58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel

gizmodo.com — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:29:41 EDT

Some of you who visit Gizmodo at work do so to escape the drudgery of Excel, and we expect those of you reading this for that reason will especially appreciate artist Danielle Aubert's book 58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel, which surprisingly contains exactly what it says it does.

Aubert creates her drawings by manipulating cell preferences for background color, fill pattern, and border styles, occasionally inserting words or letters and comment boxes into the grid; most of them are abstract, unlike the one pictured here. We've spent our lives thus far avoiding having to use Excel, but if you have other enjoyable/artistic ways of tinkering with spreadsheets, let us know.

58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel [Danielle Aubert, via information aesthetics]

Filter Out TV With Groovetube

gizmodo.com — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:06:03 EST

Sometimes we watch television so much that we become sucked in to the world of commercialization. Needless to say, when a cause for concern about television and commercialization comes up, leave it to a bunch of dorky designers to do something about it. UP TO YOU, a Canadian-based company, has come up with a translucent piece of plastic that suctions onto your existing television set. The plastic is cut up into cubes reminiscent of the game "Dont Break The Ice" that will make your television glow in a flurry of ambient light. Rock the pixelation to get away from the television for awhile or enjoy TV in a whole new way.

Groovetube makes TV worth watching [Boing Boing]