Fire up your webcam and make your own Living Sasquatch.
Carmichael Lynch created this AR for the their Jack Link’s Beef Jerky “Feed Your Wild Side” campaign.
Shout out from the Umlaut to Joshy D. @REBEL8 and BigfootONE.
The piece was created by Obscura Digital and sponsored by McAfee.
Obscura modeled the Mint in 3-D, then used 3DSMax, along with their own proprietary software, to do the media. Add seven HD projectors and you’ve got this awesome spectacle I would’ve stared at all night.
More details and HD version here.
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Rhett Dashwood spent the last year collecting an alphabet from Google Maps. (Thanks, Jess!)
Made me want to create a custom-message maker with the assets.
Too bad somebody else had the same idea(s):
geoGreeting: Spell with buildings and send an animated,
clickable map to your friends. Send one now.
Spell with Flickr: Just what you think. Erik Kastner created this
with PHP and Javascript. Type your message here.
(via LifeHacker)
Is that a Lego Jack White? Will there be a Lego Lars Umlaut?
We do know there’ll be kid-friendly tunes like Blur’s “Song 2” and the Carl Douglas classic “Kung Fu Fighting” (not the one covered by Cee-Lo for Kung Fu Panda … Thank the ‘Lo). Full story here.
Nerdy, yes. But that’s why you’re here.
Check out this exhaustive list of search shortcuts you can use on Yahoo! and Google. Who’s better? You decide. They’re all clickable.
My opinion? See the rest »
After an hour in the 82° Mill Valley sun, my friend James’ iPhone reached “muy caliente” and flashed this Spanish-tinged warning.
Of course, his iPhone is no stranger to extreme conditions: See the rest »
Daaaamn.com: A fascinating journey into the phonetic spelling of a classic.
(pic via)
Sure, using bacon to create a plasma torch hot enough to melt steel is impressive. But it’s the spinning scene at 1:05 I can’t stop watching. And watching …
See how it’s done in PopSci’s “Bacon: The Other White Heat”. (via BoingBoing Gadgets )
BONUS: The BA-K-47 (Thanks, Fang)
A ton of vids and articles exploring the possibilities of Augmented Reality are popping up. Here’s a grip of ’em:
iPHONE: Augmented Reality iPhone Demo via Touch Arcade.
Game researcher and director of Georgia Tech’s Augmented Environment Lab (yes, there is one) Blair MacIntyre shows a virtual reality pet crossed with the iPhone’s realtime-video feed. It’s a demo now, but only a matter of time before I use it to create a virtual French Bulldog.
See more … See the rest »
I always thought TouchGrind on the iPhone was like skating with blinders on. Though one of the cooler uses of multi-touch, it begs for what’s in the vid above. No coincidence it’s from the makers of TouchGrind (App Store), Illusion Labs.
BONUS VIDEO: See the rest »
Yahoo! Ideological Search
Yahoo! brings Truthiness to web search with the Ideological Search Engine. Filter the web through the blinders of either political view.
My take: Funny and surprisingly useful.
Google CADIE
Google introduced CADIE, the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity.
My take: Sorta funny-ish but takes a lot of reading. I’ll give it to ’em for being thorough—on top of CADIE’s Blog and YouTube channel, there’s GMail, Google Docs, and Google Code. Talk about geeking out.
Turns out if you drill holes in a pipe, seal the ends, run gas and music through it, then light it on fire, the flames will visualize the sound waves. These guys show how they just made one for $11. But local fav’s the Myth Busters explained it best a couple years back.
Watch videos of Rubens’ Tube action … See the rest »
Brilliant. Not for the novelty, but for the banality.
Just blends right in. Pretty slick.
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Saw this Friday night in Petaluma. Made me laugh.
Then made me think of the hacked zombie signs.
Here’s a story on how it’s done.
The built-in Safari search on iPhone is okay. If you like türd. Thankfully, Inquisitor‘s been ported as an App. Giving suggestions and site descriptions, before you even tap. Damnit, that rhymes.
Get it free on the App store now.
