Whether you like it or not, robots are coming. These two are highly advanced flying and walking robots designed at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Southern California, respectively. Not that we’ll be using these at Next anytime soon, but I thought they were pretty cool. A couple more interesting and creepy bots after the jump.
Digital Graffiti Wall from Alex Beim on Vimeo.
Vancouver based design collective Tangible Interaction has created some really cool interactive art projects, most recently this Digital Graffiti Wall for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The wall allows you to choose stencils and colors or draw free hand. Check another video after the jump.
This new iPhone app lets you pay for your bar tab with your cell phone. It stores your credit card information, allows you to pick a bar, open a tab and close it whenever you’re done throwin’ em back. It is currently only available at some bars in Austin, TX, and the company plans on spreading the word by handing out free tabs at SXSW. I’ll try to get one while I’m there, but be on the look out for this app on the rise.
I’m not really sure who’s hip to these services, but I’m surprised I haven’t seen folks in my Twitter timeline using them more. Instead of just tagging #MusicMonday or #nowplaying, try enriching your tweets with a link to share the song to your followers and they can listen in as well. After the jump are the the two tools I use most frequently to spread music through Twitter.
NOTE: This is a reblog of mine from last week on Eighty81.
This week has been declared Graffiti Markup Language Week by the Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab, a week celebrating the various projects developed with the use of a specialized XML protocol dedicated to capturing the motion data created by tagging. Check the video and try to wrap your head around it.
The next big smartphone on the horizon is Google’s Nexus One. Hypebeast had a short write up on the device, and by viewing the ad above, it seems like this might be the iPhone killer. Either that or its just a cleverly crafted commercial…
A Google Wave demonstration as told with a little help from Pulp Fiction. NSFW because duh, its Pulp Fiction.
via Laughing Squid
The film RiP: A Remix Manifesto is up on Hulu and I highly recommend watching it. The film follows Girl Talk extensively, as well as renowned copyright reformist lawyer Lawrence Lessig in its exploration on the history and current issues in copyright and media. The opening scene was actually filmed at the Grog Shop. I also put this up for my school record company, AEMMP Records.
