Gizmodo: Spring Show 2007

Origami as Musical Instrument

Charlie White — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:52:45 EDT

Here's some of the real origami, and it has nothing to do with ultramobile PCs, either. This resourceful student at NYU shows us her origami musical instrument for her graduation project for the interactive telecommunications program's Spring Show 2007. Using origami folding to trigger musical samples of human voices, the hypnotic result speaks for itself. – Charlie White with video by Richard Blakeley

Student Projects: Wireless Motion Data Headed for Games?

Charlie White — Thu, 10 May 2007 08:47:38 EDT

Here's another NYU project, where student Vincent Dean Boyce has figured out a way to send mechanical and motion data from a skateboard (or it could be a snowboard or surfboard) via Bluetooth to a cellphone. Imagine the possibilities if you hook this up to an Xbox 360! – Charlie White with video by Richard Blakeley

Student Projects: Taking Pics in the Blink of an Eye

Charlie White — Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:59 EDT

We showed you a few still pictures of him as a sneak preview yesterday and you can see them again in the gallery below, but now here's Andrew Schneider in all his full-motion glory: the one-man band picture-taking guy whose invention leaves us nonplussed.

His graduation project for NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program involves hooking up wires to his eyelids which trigger the camera's shutter. "Every picture's a bad one," he says. Andrew, we don't think there are going to be many takers for this dubious technology, but it's entertaining nonetheless. – Charlie White with video by Richard Blakeley

Auto-Paparazzi Likes Celebrity Cleavage as Much as You

Adam Frucci — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:15:00 EDT

At last night's ITP Grad Show at NYU, we saw this super-sweet project that essentially creates robotic paparazzi. It's a smart robot, as it knows what humans like: skin, and lots of it. It has sensors that detect how much skin someone is showing, and it takes more pictures and yells at them more as a result. Check the video out to see it in action and hear it described by the brilliant/perverted creator. –Adam Frucci with video by Richard Blakeley

Student Projects: ITP Spring Show 2007

Noah Robischon — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:41:49 EDT

It's springtime at New York University, which means the students in the Interactive Telecommunications Program truck out their graduation projects. These range from conceptual artworks (like Andrew Schneider's "Experimental Devices for Performance" shown above) to innovative interfaces and games. This gallery shows just a few of the works on display. Look for more details on the most interesting projects later tonight and tomorrow. –Noah Robischon

ITP Spring Show 2007