reactable: improvisation demo

http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable

The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.

This instrument is being developed by a team of digital luthiers (Sergi Jordà , Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso), at the Music Technology Group within the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.

Chevy Volt 1

Chevy Volt 1, originally uploaded by drocpsu.

Chevy Volt electric concept car at the 2007 New York Auto Show

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Walt Disney Concert Hall, originally uploaded by ▐ X y L e▐.

- X y L e - © 2007

This is the Walt Disney Concert Hall , Los Angeles, California. It feels good to get out and about again, its been awhile since I've gone on a photography trip. Hope you guys like it.

I used a perfectly exposed RAW Image to generate the HDR.

Sony's flexible, full-color OLED

Sony unveiled what is billed as the world's first flexible, full-color OLED display built on organic thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. The 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution, is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams.

Spaceship 2 Interior -Ready for Launch '08

Spaceship 2 Interior -Ready for Launch '08

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic's Spaceship 2...test flights begin next year and passenger flights soon thereafter. Posted by Casey Kazan.

Transformers TV ad: Vibration

Toyota's one-man i-unit vehicle is ahead of its time

Toyota's one-man i-unit vehicle is ahead of its time

What do you get when you cross the Segway with one of those wheelchair scooters? My guess is you'd end up with something like the i-unit, the latest concept vehicle to emerge from the labs at Toyota.

This one-person "personal mobility" vehicle, as Toyota describes it, can actually make itself smaller when moving slowly to take up less space, and then spread out more to optimize its center of gravity for higher speeds. At an eye-poppingly light 396 pounds, and measuring no more than 6 feet long, the i-unit (enough with the freakin' i-naming already!) boasts a three-foot turning radius, is powered by a lithium-ion battery, and includes onboard systems that store your favorite music and customize the body's color based on driver preferences.

It all sounds incredibly cool, and ultra-environmentally friendly, but you wouldn't catch me in one so long as I had to share the road with 4-ton Hummers. In other words, at this stage, categorize the i-unit as wishful thinking. — Tony Kontzer

Toyota, via Shiny Shiny