New Daedelus video, featuring his Monome

I never really got into Daedelus, but I like this track and the video.
It’s good to see something like the Monome (a pretty, open-source MIDI controller) used expressively and live, in the same way a guitar functions. Watching him hit the thing actually adds to the song. Via DoseNation.

Google Earth as your real-life Grand Theft Auto map

I’m a big fan of the Grand Theft Auto games - over and over again, I’m surprised at all the little ways in which they mimic real life. 
For instance, your character freely walks/drives from one location to another, meets up with specific friends or business partners and then does things with them (your “missions”). Those […]

J. Mayer H.

I become completely inarticulate when I look at the work of German architect J. Mayer H. (yes, he only goes by his middle name).
Have a look around his mind-blowing portfolio site, including the video where he shows off some sort of nano-tech material that morphs into whatever you need it to be.
Very “Biology Era”-ish stuff, […]

The Future of Design: the “Biology Era?”

Found a great site by way of How magazine called 24-7 Design Heaven. I haven’t gotten to look around a lot yet, but the first article that drew my attention was one about “the look of our new era,” or what’s going on in the collective unconscious that will shape the way things look in […]

Mind-reading cell phone

A company called Ambient Corporation (band name!) has developed a neckband that intercepts signals from your brain and turns them into vocalized speech, allowing for a totally silent phone call. Though the technology is in its infancy, the developer talks about a near future where you’ll be able to Google something with your mind and […]