Technology Review Nominates its Objects of Desire: Gizmodo says ‘Phwoar!’
Technology Review has rounded up a bunch of objects that it feels are design classics from the past 30 or so years and got a bunch of industrial designers to talk about them. And you’ve gotta admit they’re right—on some of the candidates, at least. First up is the Polaroid SX-70, which dates back to…
Student Projects: Wireless Motion Data Headed for Games?
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!
Student Projects: Taking Pics in the Blink of an Eye
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. https://gizmodo.com/student-projects-itp-spring-show-2007-258850 His graduation project for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program involves hooking…
iSave Faucet Water Counter for your Green Conscience
The iSave is a rather simple gadget that has just clinched the runner-up prize in Metropolis Magazine’s 2007 Next Generation Awards. Attach it to either your sink or a showerhead and it will show you just how much water you are using for your morning’s ablutions/scrubbing last night’s taco melt off your plates. Designed by…
Bestilt 360: Motion Sensing for Xbox 360 Now Ready to Rock, Roll, Pitch and Yaw
Remember the Xilt, the hack to Wiimotize your Xbox 360 controller? Well, this is not it. At least, it seems that while Xilt 360 is still coming soon, Total Console has released the Bestilt 360. Same concept: “simply” solder it to the bottom part of your Xbox 360 pad, activate it with a switch and…
BolsiPlus: Add Pockets To Anything (Verdict: Please Don’t)
If looking at the news gives you the idea that the world is going to hell and the Apocalypse is about to break loose on Earth, look no further. What you hear is the noise of thunder and the trumpet-playing beast, because we have found the definitive proof: Behold, the BolsiPlus. BolsiPlus are sticky pockets.…
PC World Editor Harry McCracken Returns Victorious
In an interesting reversal, departed PC World Editor Harry McCracken has returned to the magazine as “vice-president, editor in chief” as of this morning. What’s even more surprising is that CEO Colin Crawford has been dropped from the CEO position and is taking up the executive vice president, online position. He’s even given the editorial…
Quick News: Comcast, Akon and More
Joost added two new partners today, Warner Bros. and Heavy.com. While Heavy.com will be showing off new content, Warner plans on only shelling out “vintage” shows. Singer, Akon, found out that you can’t get away scott-free if you dry-hump a 15-year-old preacher’s daughter. Verizon Wireless has decided to no longer sponsor the concert tour he…
Toughen Up Your Mac Mini With VictorSystems
There are some great Mac Mini setups out there, but none of them would hold up to military conditions. Enter VictorSystems. They took your typical pint-sized Mac and covered it in aluminum armor, wrought plates and finned heat sinks. Now the Mini is combat ready. But what good is a beefed-up Mac if you don’t…
Auto-Paparazzi Likes Celebrity Cleavage as Much as You
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…