This design for a tangible rhythm sequencer interface by student Peter Bennett is sleek & innovative.
Ball bearings are used to trigger drum sounds. Visual feedback is displayed from underneath to indicate the current time and the state of each ball bearing.
Each effect has a track on BeatBearing's plastic screen, and by dropping a ball bearing into a hole you activate that track's effect as a scanning light beam encounters it.
If Pete decides to up it to an eight track sequencer, we could have some hip hop checkers action. Coming to a coffee table near you!
Chocolate Agency has come up with this multimedia device that snaps on with a slap. The thin bracelet is designed using E-paper technology that’s rather high in contrast. This MP4 player will literally wrap an image around your wrist, and let you unwrap it to reveal a full screen.
No need to worry about batteries either, the E-Paper Slap Bracelet is powered by kinetic energy, so movement from your wrist is all it needs.
Having a touchscreen display occupy most of the front of your phone is one thing, but when you wrap the entire freaking phone -- front and back -- with touchable e-paper technology, you've got something pretty incredible. Enter the P-Per, an impressively simple and sustainable mobile phone combing features that were supposed to be incompatible: simple, advanced, green and unique.
Modeled after the E-Paper slap bracelet, it’s made of only 4 layers of sustainable materials, the “1 function, 1 part, 1 material” rule makes it easy to disassemble the materials for recycling. It has a transparent display for camera mode and a browser that spans the entire surface of the display.
Sadly, it's a figment of our collective imaginations for now... Eat it, iPhone (eventually)
Sometimes I stumble upon blogs that make me sit here for a minute. I visited Nah Right tonight, and after watching their video embed, the heads in The Real gave me pause and left me smiling.
Site contributor Jeff Rosenthal has made his way onto Funny or Die's "Choices" series hosted by Jessica St. Clair and posted by This Just In. "Real Jobs" be damned.
Which lead me back to a recent conversation about a particular Boondocks intro and argument(right before I was scolded via my mobile telephone unit by a former stranger for sitting under a bridge). I thought it somehow fitting for this soliloquy.
