Real-life Photoshop
Wanda’s tangible remake of the familiar Photoshop desktop would likely make an awesome them for the popular app were it skinable – as real as it gets… [via Kottke]
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Pixel art depot
Simple but fun, the Major Output pixel art site let’s you create and post your own simple pixel graphic – plus browse through a big collection of other’s work. My resistor and capacitor contrubutions can be seen in the mix above. – Major Output
Quick ‘n dirty gesture recognition in Javascipt and Flash
Jason writes on Hackszine: The “$1 Recognizer” is a simple gesture recognition algorithm created by Andy Wilson from Microsoft Research and Jacob Wobbrock and Yang Li from the University of Washington. By simple, I mean that it’s under 100 lines of code that you can quickly add to your application to give it gesture recognition […]
Galvanic skin response mouse
Not sure how this could be used practically outside of the lab and human response research, but it definitely looks like a relatively cheap and easy way to gather GSR data in a non-intrusive way. Galvanic skin response computer mouse
Visualizing Wikipedia page edits
Jamie @ F.A.T writes… A visualization of people who’ve contributed to the Barack Obama page on Wikipedia. Users who edit a lot drift toward the center. Best watched full screen. Visualized using code_swarm (Processing) and my new Wikipedia page history parser Wikiswarm (Ruby). Instructions on how to make your own visualizations can be found in […]
The Ocarina of iPhone?
The iPhone is proving to be quite a platform for portable music apps. This new digital ocarina from Smule aims to convert Apple’s wonder-phone into an expressive and nuanced instrument all its own – The Ocarina synthesizes sound in real-time, just like a regular instrument, based on actual gestures including wind input, tilt, and finger […]
4 track voice recorder for iPhone…
4 track voice recorder for iPhone… via Wired.