Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Super Bowl Commercials from the Past

The Super Bowl is here again, and so will be the commercials. Here are some from the past.

1984 Apple's Macintosh

From: seancollier



GM Robot

From: ShortbusTV



Fed Ex

From: hoff41



Bud Light, Apes

From: viralstuff



Budweiser 2007 Super Bowl Commercial Snip Compilation

From: BudweiserMedia

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Frozen Grand Central Station

I love performance art. This is so cool!

From: ImprovEverywhere

From ImprovEverywhere.com, over 200 people freeze in place on cue in Grand Central Station in New York.

Friday, February 01, 2008

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

Complicated title, but pretty cool. Using your WiiRemote in interesting ways.

From: jcl5m

Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net/




Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote

From: jcl5m

Using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point tablet displays. Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. The software can be downloaded at http://johnnylee.net/




Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote

From: jcl5m

Using an IR led array and some reflective tape, you can track fingers in thin air using the Wii Remote by Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. The grid software is a custom program written using a C# wiimote library and DirectX. More information about the grid software can be found at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/project...