Seth Sandler, a student at UCSD, has posted his instructions and code for a cheap, simple, DIY multi-touch interface that uses ambient room light and a webcam (no IR cameras here). I haven’t taken a close look at the code yet, but it looks like a nice approach to building a multi-touch system for prototyping [...]

A new concept house of the future in Brussels. Most of the ideas have been seen in one form or another in other “house of the future” projects, but they are very nicely executed here from a design perspective. In particular, I want one of those pods!
Video: Inside the House of the Future

In an incredibly impressive project that must have been some kind of exquisite torture to realize, John Resig has ported the Processing language to JavaScript, so that Processing code gets translated to JS and displays natively in the browser, sans applets. It only works on some browsers (seems like Firefox has the most comprehensive support), [...]

I discovered some interesting data visualization projects today by exploring the links gathered by Max Kiesler at Design Label. Some highlights below:

For quite a while, I’ve been thinking about creating a tool that allows users to make and share multimedia, interactive timelines easily. Turns out, the folks at CircaVie (owned by AOL) have done exactly [...]

I’m a big fan of Apple design under most circumstances, and their iconography, where used, tends to be pretty good. I think the most challenging icons to design would be the three for Control, Option, and Command, since these are pretty abstract concepts with no immediate symbolic correspondence. So, let’s take a look at them:
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I’m not really a big gaming person, but this it pretty amazing. You can completely create and customize a game interface from scratch. I can see a whole lot of non-gaming, emergent uses for this kind of system.YouTube - DLBTV: Little Big Planet Demo At GDC 2007