http://ideas.strukt.com New ideas and alltime favourites in technology and design Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:19:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the best "data visualizations" I've seen in a long time. Even if it's kind of inverted... At the very least it's original. Found on Phat's Bouillabaisse http://ideas.strukt.com/2010/02/zanimljiva-geografija/ Too much time has passed since the last Idea-Blog posting. There are several reasons for that, most notably the fact, that Strukt spent most of it's time this year reacting to changing circumstances an too little time playing with ideas. Next year should be more idea-filled and less driven by ... http://ideas.strukt.com/2009/12/three-free-documentaries/ In december this advertisment from Mini appeared in several magazines, which featured an augmented reality Mini cabriolet. Unfortunately, it only works on Windows with Internet Explorer and ActiveX. But it looks really great and it is sure a nice idea to present a product. Via technabob. http://ideas.strukt.com/2009/01/mini-augmented-reality/ BMW used the Microsoft Surface as a platform to come up with a multi-user multi-touch car configurator. This was just about time to happen, and they also claim to be the first car manufacturer in the world to use this technology. Well good for them - whoever wants to follow ... http://ideas.strukt.com/2008/11/bmw-multitouch-carconfigurator/ This is something that is so obvious to be happening at some point, but it is of course exciting to see the first prototypes of flexible screens out there. Having bigger, flexible screens for installations would make creating virtual worlds even easier. With this technology it should be also possible ... http://ideas.strukt.com/2008/10/flexible-screen/ Structure Synth is an application for creating 3D structures from a set of user specified rules. So basically it is a tool to create complex, 3-dimensional structures out of some liens of code. The Code looks like this: 1 * { rz 90 x 10 y 12 s 9.8 } 5 ... http://ideas.strukt.com/2008/10/structure-synth/ Stunning music visualization video! Music Is Math from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo. Most of it seems to be created without intervention of the artist but I'm suspecting that there was a little more human interaction than asserted. http://ideas.strukt.com/2008/10/music-is-math-by-glenn-marshall/ Pablo Valbuena: Augmented space, originally uploaded by Ri Ra Robbie. New video installation by Pablo Valbuena, shown on TodaysArt 2008. He slightly transforms the building by projections only. A very simple technique, but the result is breathtaking. I could very well imagine to interactively move the light ... http://ideas.strukt.com/2008/09/pablo-valbuena-augmented-space/ Here at Strukt Studio we work on our multi-touch research project as often as possible. Our 150 x 90 cm table is being constructed right now, and the software development for the first project is finished, including a library with multi-touch objects for vvvv. Last week we decided to order a ... http://ideas.strukt.com/2008/09/portable-multi-touch-screen/ My fellow co-worker Andreas pointed out this blog about "connecting art and activism". It shows great ideas making our grey city-skapes a bit more colorful and fun. It shows that with everyday items you can be very creative and even though you might cause some damage (ahem), the giggle our ... http://ideas.strukt.com/2008/09/clever-street-art/ Masayo, originally uploaded by Das Gnu. Our good friends from the Tagtool Crew just realized a little art project which is just so pretty, I have to share it with you. They used the Tagtool to create a glowing scenery and also other characters to interact with the real environment. It's ... http://ideas.strukt.com/2008/08/birgits-bauernhof-photos/ Today I'm writing about something that isn't very new. But podcasts have become a quite impressive medium by now and I'll dedicate my weekly blog post to this new information source. "A podcast is a series of digital-media files, which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on ... http://ideas.strukt.com/2008/08/podcasting/