The site showcases the new Volkswagen Eos, an all weather car with a “James Bond”- like roof system. The user can choose a season / theme and use the power of Eos – the Titan Goddess of Dawn according to Greek Mythology – to paint the car in a different colour and change the scenery.

Click here to visit the site.

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When preparing the exhibition of Shin Tanaka's Kami Zoo in the Less Rain Basement in Berlin we invited several designers and artists from europe to create their own custom paper toy. Some of you were desperately asking for pictures of their built up little friends. So now the waiting has an end. See the outcome in the Less Rain Basement section.

Thanks to everyone who joined the project! Beautiful Work!

Philip Worthington's 'Shadow Monsters' is currently being exhibited at Tokyo Design Tide. The most fun new media installation I've seen in a while. This YouTube video doesn't do it justice. More on his website.

Update - a short video from the Tokyo Design Tide version:

SCRYBE is an online solution that lets you organize yourself and get more done with less stress, some people describes Scrybe as The Holy Grail of Web Apps, other people think that looks too good to be true...

Today in a conversation with a friend about Google Video player interface, I realise that people don't even use a small percentage of the nice features that the player offers.

I'm not going to get into the discussion of why use Flash instead of Quicktime, Windows Media Player or any other kind of technology (The Rise of Flash Video), I just want to highlight a few Video Google player features:

Link within a Video:

You can access to specific points inside a video. All you have to do is add the time you'd like to access to the end of a video's URL, like this.

Keyboard shortcuts:

• Space bar plays and pauses the movie
• Right arrow skips the video forward 5%
• Left arrow jumps back 5% in the video
• Up arrow increases the volume by 5%
• Down arrow decreases the volume by 5%
• The "M" key toggles muting
• The "F" key toggles fullscreen
• Clicking on the ESC key in full screen mode returns to normal mode

Caption Playback:

Go to this page, select a captioned video, and while playing it you can click on the [CC] symbol to turn captions on and off.

More pitagorasuitchi.

Ira Cohen's landmark 1968 film, "The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda," is out now on DVD via Arthur Magazine. Includes rare appearances by Angus MacLise, the first drummer of the Velvet Underground, and minimalist drone pioneer Tony Conrad. They were both members of the "Theater of Eternal Music" or the "Dream Syndicate", Fluxus' house band in NY in the mid sixties, along La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela & John Cale. The Music is by Angus MacLise.

www.castlemagazine.de

Just had some new insight on the Cast to Array problem I had posted a while ago.

For the Flash IDE compiler the following 3 lines are synonymous, i.e. creating an Array with one object in it (resulting in the problem I had in my earlier post):

Not for MTASC though. MTASC seems to interpret Array() as a cast operator instead of a global conversion function. Can be tricky to debug, because for FDT and MTASC Array({x:1}) is legal syntax, namely a cast operation. They don't throw an error, but they don't create an Array either. If you have more than one element they do complain. Array(1,2,3) is illegal syntax for FDT and MTASC.

The following example class would behave differently in swf's compiled with MTASC or the Flash IDE. Which strengthens my belief that the Array() operator should better not be used at all.....

Less Rain created some buttons for the Stuck On Me exhibition - now in Berlin, last year in London.

Tomorrow is the last day! Hurry up and see them at Galerie Walden Kunstausstellungen, Kastanienallee 86, 10435 Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg 12.10.06 – 21.10.06, open daily 2 - 8 PM.

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Multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations.

Multi-Touch Interaction Research



An experiment aimed at providing the experience of the Minority Report interface. But without gloves.

Naturalinteraction



See more examples in Pixelsumo.

This is amazing interface stuff from the MIT Media Lab, which has always been at the forefront of interaction design. I would certainly go back to school if they had one of this, plus a variation of the brilliant Messa Di Voce installation / performance that Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman did in 2003.