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Augmented ID Mobile App: Say goodbye to being anonymous -
With the imminent arrival of iPhone OS 3.1, this impressive augmented reality concept by TAT is one step closer to reality. With the aide of facial recognition, Augmented ID is a mobile app that visualises the digital identities of those people you come in contact with by simply pointing the camera in their direction. The implementation looks incredibly slick for a concept.
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Amazon's Mechanical Turk collects 2088 voices to sing 'Daisy Bell' -
Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected from online workers via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk - a crowdsourcing web service. The Workers were prompted to listen to the tune ‘Daisy Bell’ then record themselves imitating what they heard. The project is a collaboration between Aaron Koblin & Daniel Massey.
Why Daisy Bell? It was the song HAL sang at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
(via Aaron Koblin.com)
German utility company Yello Strom is keeping its customers informed by enabling meters to tweet about energy use.
Each “Yello Sparzähler” smart meter (designed by IDEO) is allocated its own Twitter account, which is automatically updated with energy consumption data. The owner can follow the account to receive regular updates, leading to greater awareness and hopefully lower energy use.
( via SpringWise.com )
I recently discovered this simple script, which converts HTML heading tags to whatever font you want. There are a few other alternatives out there but this seems to do the trick quite well.
I’ve used sIFR before a number of times but found it cumbersome to style across multiple browsers. Plus the thought of using flash to modify and display HTML code doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense.
I’ve tried to avoid SIFR and I don’t like using images for headings for a variety of reasons. SIFR’s too much of a hack anyway. It’s also slow. The more you used it on a page the slower it would take to render.
I’ve played with Cufon only a couple of times but found the cool thing about it was how easy it was to convert a font to the required JS file format.
After this, you link to the main cufon.js file and converted font js file, and then add a few lines of JS code to replace the tags with the new font. Your headings are done. Too easy.
The only slight downside is that it only supports tags (as of writing this). E.g h1, h2. It’s no big deal really as I’m a strong believer in using web supported text for basically everything. It’s quicker and well supported across multiple devices and browsers and customisable.
Anyway, try it yourself.
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Eternal Moonwalk - Clever M.J tribute site -
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Home. An aerial exploration of earth. -
Yann Arthus-Bertrand who is famous for his stunning aerial photography book ‘Earth From Above’ is back with a film project called ‘Home’ which is the story of our destruction of the natural world. Co-produced by Luc Besson and screening on YouTube util June 14, Home is the result of 2.5 years’ work, 500 hours of footage filmed across 54 countries. The 90 minute documentary was sponsored by PPR / The Gucci Group.
(via Wallpaper)