Here is a program that we could all use to interpret sound from an image. This program can be manipulated, so that means it can be integrated as the platform for an installation piece. It can turn movement into music and music into imagery (and vice versa to music). The interface looks fairly simple to…

I guess I’ve been using HCI for ten years or so. The military has offered on-line courses for a long time and most of them are boring…heh. Actually, right now I can learn Spanish, Swahili, Urdu or any number of languages through on-line courses. I’m just too lazy to lern evn engrish thouw. Here also…

Finally, just what I’ve been waiting for my whole life…..a robot that will iron my pants with minimal effort from me. This would’ve been priceless while I was still in the military. The robot works quite simply:Place pants in robot.Select temperatureTurn onWait 2.5 minutes and put on your pants. At a cool $599, this product…

So Japan receives a good amount of rainy days, so to spice up their gloomy climate the internet umbrella was introduced to do just that. One of the many focuses around the umbrella idea was to create hardware that would be workable in such limited space. Just like a cellphone, but with a more useful…

After hearing about it a bunch of times in this class, I finally decided to check out what jodi.org is all about. I was first introduced to an interesting page of… well… flashing green symbols which appeared to be absolutely meaningless (so the <blink> tag is a form of art now, huh?). But, being the…

Myron W. Krueger using a computer that interprets human siluettes has put together a virtual reality space where a persons body, unencumbered by annoying attatchments, is a tool for interacting with the program. This seems to be quite a liberating interface design which enables people to freely move about as they interact with the program…

Going through Gizmodo I ran upon this nifty little invention. A chair that can be stretch to just about any length. After, reading some of the comments most assume is was made out of paper. Connecting this with another class (Industrial Design) paper could be use to make a lot of interesting things, and this…

Uh, these are all very very real and very vary serious…..

So, last week in class discussion we were talking about copyright (the big C) and how artists could share their work allowing other people to use it, but still keeping their authorship and some saying in the way it is used. Well, it looks like Creative Commons (cc) have come up with a pretty good…

Not much to say about this except be careful…

Mmmm… UMPCs are nice… But a gamer’s UMPC? Hell, that’s my kind of computer! As of now, this is only an idea from Dell, and I doubt it would have as much power as the screenshot above suggests (that game is pretty hardware intensive). However, if UMPCs today were able to attain this kind of…

This is so awesome. I think this will become the new Military state of the art defense system or an awesome VR game addition. I saw this type of work in a game called “Ghost Recon” but i didnt actually think that an actual Augmented Reality device was in the makeing. I find this to…