Friday, December 15, 2006

The future by Nokia




Nokia's new concept phone the 888 designed by Tamer Nakisci is possibly the closest we have gotten to the future technology-wise. Benelux Design Contest gives us a hint that how the future phones would look like. This phone has only appeared on the drawing paper till now. The phone will look like a bracelet, use liquid batteries and feature speech recognition. It will have a flexible touch screen and a sensitive body cover. It will also have all the features of a communicator.

You dont have to carry it in your pocket or on your wrist. You can carry it anywhere, in anyform. You can roll it, bend it, put on your clothes like a clip. It also makes some form changes that makes it more ergonomical: i.e. when you want to talk on the phone, the body form turns into the form of the good old telephone. You can personalize these forms and record them. So it fits you the best in the way that you have chosen.

Also e-motions let you send forms to other 888 users: i.e. you can send a heart shape to your girlfriend or a dancing figure to your friends to call them to the party tonight. This way you can talk without words.
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T.V. in the Future...

The advent of companies such as HoloPro, Universal Display Corporation and materials such as Makrolon (manufactured by Bayer), may mean new times are in the pipeline for the whole display and t.v. industry. Flexible screens, FOLED (Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes) and paper thin displays. In this video produced by Cnet we can have a taste of what the future holds in store.

Please take the time to visit these truly innovative companies: HoloPro and Universal Display Corporation (inventors of the OLED)

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Houdini Silk Simulation

A simple procedural particle silk simulation done on Side FX HOUDINI. Using forces and particle operators.. no cloth solvers.

Build your own MIDI controller Step-by-step...


Wolf + Lamb Custom 3 Channel Midi Controller
Make a beautiful custom 3 channel midi controller. Use it for Ableton Live DJing (recommended) or any other MIDI compliant program. Total cost: $450!

Instructions HERE