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A video trip down to memory lane: the Youtube Time Machine

Kris Hoet — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:30:05 +0000

The YTTM offers an interesting way to watch videos from a specific year in between 1860 and 2010. Pick a year and choose one or more categories (video games, television, commercials, …) and you get a video that fits the selection.

Let’s find out what happened in 1973 – the year I was born in case you were wondering ;)

[Via The Denver Egotist]

September, when robots take over the internet

Kris Hoet — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:02:00 +0000

Looks like September is going to be robo-arm month. Microsoft is doing something cool with robots on RememberReach.com for the launch of Halo Reach (September 14th) featuring a user-generated light sculpture of Reach’s Noble Team.

“The Kuka KR 140 bot, normally deployed in car factories, has been outfitted with an LED and stationed in an undisclosed San Francisco warehouse. Visitors direct the machine to plot the 54,000 points of light that will form the Noble Team monument.”

Curious to see what the final sculpture will look like. In the meantime Coolhunting tells us Audi and Kram/Weisshaar (design firm) are preparing Outrace, an installation that will take over Trafalgar Square from 17 September through 23 September as part of the London Design Festival. This installation uses eight industrial robots from Audi’s production line to deliver messages sent from people around the world as 3D lighting graphics.

“The project explores ways to integrate innovative technology within the arts, using LEDs to scroll out user messages by attaching the powerful light heads to the mechanical arms of the robots. A long-exposure camera will capture the resulting light traces, creating videos of the user messages so that participants can share their experience across their social media platforms.”

As I said: September, when robots take over the internet ;)

Find all 57 business clichés in this picture

Kris Hoet — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000

It was actually created as a Holidays greeting end of last year but stumbled upon it while cleaning up some files on my computer. ‘Think outside the box’ and find all clichés hidden in this picture. ‘Low hanging fruit’, ‘Mission critical’, ‘Drink the Kool-Aid’, … those are only a few examples. Enjoy! You can download it here.

And in case you have no idea what all this business jargon means? No stress, you can still unsuck it here.

Icons of the web

Kris Hoet — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:45:00 +0000

Is your website amongst the 1 million most visited websites? Find out here – and spot it between the million icons of the web. Or just order the poster ;)

[Via @fwa]

Augmented (hyper)reality

Kris Hoet — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:33:12 +0000

An iPad, why would you be needing that for? Today you hold a little square in front of your webcam, not anymore tomorrow. Sure you are ready for the future? ;)

This looks a bit like it could be Capital 4.0. If you don’t know Capital, check it out below (blogged about this long time ago).

ABC

Kris Hoet — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:22:28 +0000

Really nice work from designer Jason Dean from Orlando, who designed this alphabet based on some of the most important brands identities of today. There are only 500 copies of this limited edition so be quick if you want one.

And? Did you do the test? How many brands could you name instantly?

[Via fubiz]

Let’s face it

Kris Hoet — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:20:21 +0000

I found this the other day on Zoomdoggle: Eric Testroete, a Vancouver based gaming industry guy, created this pretty cool 3D mask of his own face. Awesome don’t you think?

Similar concepts on the website of Bert Simons, one I found via Pietel on Facebook today, all I need now is some free time :)

Engaging the audience

Kris Hoet — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:44:48 +0000

Now that’s what I call ‘user engagement’! The ‘Hand from Above’ video below is the work of artist Chris O’Shea and like Neil Perkin mentions in his blogpost… wonder how long it’ll take before we see this in a commercial context. Check it out:

[Via Only Dead Fish]

Gauging the internet

Kris Hoet — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:14:13 +0000

I like simple things like this.

“The gauge is attached via a network cable to the internet where it monitors news and search results for “paris hilton” and “paris france” and displays an average result in real-time.”

[Via Microsoft buddy Steve Clayton]

A real human interface

Kris Hoet — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:07:02 +0000

Found this video via Druppels on Facebook – I love stuff like this. It’s a concept created by Multitouch Barcelona and you simply cannot not like this… see for yourself: