Here is another example of fancy touchscreen and visualization gadgtets: An interactive mirror. It could be interesting to leave notes for your roommates or put pictures of clothes on it to see what would be looking good at you. Hm… Myriad possibilities. Plus: This videos has some very pushy old school Dr Dre styled beats beneath.

Interactive Mirror from Alpay Kasal on Vimeo.

Greenhouse.sproutbuilder.com is an absolute blast. It’s a flash based widget builder which works entirely in your browser window and has a lot of editing features. Build sites with text, video, pictures, slideshows, maps, charts or insert RSS. Define size, fonts, colors, background, effects. Here are the most recent updates from the PANORAMA3000 blog in a widget, it took me 20 minutes to make it nice.

Sony hall on IFA by HolgerEI went to IFA last week and apart from the vacuum cleaning robot (cute!), the 3DTV screens by LG and Samsung (no link found) and the vast Sony hall, I especially liked the science part of the trade fair. I talked to two scientists from DFKI Saarbrücken and tried the Wii fit board they hacked to surf Google Earth. Fun! In general, I think it’s a big chance for IFA to strengthen this part to be ever more successful in the future. Here, Matthieu and Simon demonstrate their invention:

Es steht ein Haus in Neuruppin und es sieht ziemlich düster aus. Dreckiges Linoleum, Hängelampe und den elektrischen Bratenschneider auf dem Tisch. Drin sitzen K.I.Z und rappen über Mordfantasien. Man kann das Haus mit Mouseclicks durchlaufen und Schrecklichkeiten entdecken.

Produziert wurde dieses interaktive Musikvideo von der Webproduktionsschmiede Kubikfoto, die noch einige andere tolle Projekte im Netz haben, die sich mit klickbaren Foto- Videowelten beschäftigen - oft mit einem schön morbiden Touch.

KIZ - ein Haus in Neuruppin

Atome fangen - halb Planung, halb Fingerspitze: Nanotube by Slakinov. Nothing special but a cool waste of time.

Indiegames says: “Use the left or right cursor keys to match colors. Forty-two levels are included, though most players might not find the gameplay enticing enough to hold their interest for that long.”

Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot, Mouse on Mars) explains the new music gadget by Yamaha: The Tenori On. Again, a very intuitive way for creating music with intelligent electronic devices.

Via Debug and Netzpolitik’s Twitter.

Check out my articles about multitouch displays and the Monome Midi Controller.

Very nice presentation by Kosmar about “Conversational design patterns”. Many screens and pictures about how to foster different interaction patterns on the web from login to comment to ratings. No revolution but a good collection and categorization.

The shizl to the izl - Snoop is back, gangster, disco, oldschool - everything he likes blends into his new album Egotrippin. Take a listen and a look at what the self disputed master of the gangster party has for the heads, street and cheesy alike and take a quiz (in German) to find out if you’re a real Snoop expert!

Cklick blogme and put the whole thing to your site, blog, myspace or whatever there izl.

I’m loving this screensaver and its blog widgets! According to Netxtweb, it’s one of Japan’s most successful online campaigns ever. And the music’s really OK, you can turn it on, if you like.

When downloaded, it automatically adopts to your time zone, so the whole thing is really simple (video plus displayed time), together with the blog widgets it spreads around the blogosphere and in the end is an advertising tool for Uniqlo, Japan. What they do? Cashmere pullovers.

Oh my god, I just had a look at some screens of the upcoming Hobnox-Tools and I so much want to play around with that thing. There will be different virtual music machines, like a Roland 303 or a 909 and a bunch of effects which you can plug together. The amazing thing about it is: the sound engine is not build upon samples but the whole synthesizing process is emulated in flash!

As André Michelle, one of the developers writes: “The underlying audio engine is based on dynamic digital signal processing to provide very complex audio compositing in Flash. The graphical user interface is based on an unlimited sized desktop to layout your choosen devices as you wish to operate.” And here is another post by Joa, one of the flash developers.
David (Echolot.tumblr) has some more insights about how the whole Hobnox thing is going to continue.

Register now on Hobnox to be part of the closed Beta (including audio tool, live streaming and community features), starting from 1st of march - after that date, betatesting will only be possible via invitations by registered users!

War zwar schon Donnerstag, aber über einen schönen Strauß freut sich schließlich jeder und zwar immer.
Zu beziehen bei Fleischer Pahl. Dort gibt es auch niedliche Wurstkatzen und Wursthunde, süße Babygestecke aus Wurst, Leberkästorte und den aparten “Charly” für Damen.

Universal, Yahoo and PANORAMA3000 proudly present Germany’s first BlogMeSite for Jack Johnson. [Disclaimer: I work for P3000 now and we are not really certain about the name, the original developer David from France obviously likes "(blog me) SITE" more, but I am not so sure if that's a good idea. "BlogMeSite" would be much better in terms of search engine findability, and the domain obviously is blogmesite.com as well. What do you think? "BlogMeSite" oder "(blog me) SITE"?]

Anyway, the thing, whatever you want to call it, is a blast. You can put in whatever you want and you can put it wherever you want. It’s a microsite widget which consists of a bunch of flash content with audio, video, news (via RSS even), dates and newsletter box. The cool thing is the blogme-Code: Copy the code to your blog or whatever social network profile, there’s even a Facebook application for it. And it get’s even easier: MySpace users e.g. just type in their login data and can post it to any section of their profile with a simple click. BlogMeSites are going to be huge, I am sure, because thery are the überwidgets. But what am I telling you: Just try it out!

I admit. On first sight, it’s nothing special and obviously doesn’t do justice to the physical and carnal way of playing a real guitar (like John Frusciante does e.g.). But it’s a good visualization of what’s going to be possible with iPhones and it’s intuitive multitouch control display. Here’s what a guitar simulation could look like on an iPhone. I can already see DJs spinning with iPhones.

I wanted to write about that many times already and now 01Blog (really, I don’t find that name particularly sexy..) pointed me to it again: Graffiti done with lasers and laptops. Cool shit. But: I’d prefer rapmusic as background as well, despite the very obvious “laser beam” lyrics..

Damn.. I gotta.. blog more.. promise..

E-Cards are boring? Check out the Hobnox Ecard tool and have a rappin xmas.

Und wer für Heiligabend noch so einen richtig schön verspulten Minimal Techhouse-Mix braucht, sollte sich mal diesen Projekt Afterhour Mix besorgen:

Download the Projekt Afterhour Bohemiaz Chanuka Mix

“Why is online shopping so boring?” asks Darryl Feldman, head of Tsoosaylabs who are the people behind Shopwindoz.com a very intuitive and creative shopping platform, aiming at Microbrands, little shops and creative people who they are giving an environment to market products which you won’t find anywhere on the web.
Here is a little interview I did with Darryl for Blogpiloten.de.

Link: sevenload.com

Jazzmutant already gained big reputation by creating the Lemur, a multitouch Midicontroller. I saw it in action last week at a Jazz concert, but honestly spoken, the guy seemed to be a little overstrained by all its possibilities. All you could see was him concentratedely focusing his screen and the Lemur without producing much sound.

Here, via Roberdo I found an interesting introduction about Jazzmutants newest creation, the Dexxter. But with its ever growing bigger options, it’ll be even harder to make the best out of it. But I so much want to TOUCH one of these sexy things some day!

Check out the other articles about multi-touch interaction displays!

The museum of natural history in Berlin has recently been renovated and now features an impressive amount of interactive use of multimedia stations: 3D-movies that take the environment into account, moving screens, touch sensitive information. It’s full of kids and they seem to have a lot of fun learning.
Here you’ll see an interactive projection about animal families.

Example picture taken from the Brandnew-blog

The “before - after” effect is not only curious and interesting for plastic surgery but also for corporate design. Questions and answers about what has changed, why and how, give not only experts a good background but also provide the enthusiastic design amateur with useful insights about the use of colors and forms and what effect they might have on the public image of an organization.

Brandnew is a new and well done blog about just this subject by UnderConsideration, a network of web savvy designers, founded by the Mexicans Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit who reside in Brooklyn, NYC now and with many contributors from the US and Canada.

Plus, they have these cute little chicks as their logo and heraldic animal..

[via ich.mir.mich]

Get ‘em while they are hot! Tonight is the opening for the final exhibition of one of Berlin’s best design schools: Lette Verein. The 28 students call themselves Grafik28 (click to see small pieces of work from each of the students) for this show. It will take place at Galerie Neurotitan im Haus Schwarzenberg, Rosenthalerstraße 39, 18:00h.

“Mit dem Ende unserer Ausbildung im Juni 2007 veranstaltet Grafik28 eine dreiwöchige Abschlussausstellung in der Galerie Neurotitan in Berlin Mitte. Präsentiert werden Arbeiten der 28 Absolventen aus den Bereichen Typografie, Corporate Design, Multimedia, Illustration und Fotografie.”

From 23:00h there will be an aftershow-party in the club “Eschloraque” beneath the gallery.

If you can’t open it, you don’t own it.
Hack the iphone!

I just found some überstylish DJ desks at Metrofarm. Wow!

Listen to this. It’s the result of an interactive installation residing at Potsdamer Platz at the moment, celebrating Mannheim’s 400th birthday. The city in Germany’s southwest is structured in squares, with streets without names but with letters and numbers. Very Bauhaus indeed. It’s also famous for its pop academy so there’s several associations to the so called “sound of the squares” installation:
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Descending dots are amongst others a major trend in recent logo design, Logolounge found out in their 2007 trends:

Examples for logos with descending dots, taken from Logolounge

Vivid logos were found by the logo blog: An example for a vivid logo,
taken from Logoblog

A chiseled structure becoming alive is the London 2012 brand that was revealed yesterday. An image movie shows how the logo becomes part of the environment and while the aesthetics of the logo are a matter of taste and I think the idea is pretty unusual and, ehm, edgy, the movie is kind of scary.
London Olypmpics 2012 logo
It might represent the competitive character of the games and the fight to find the best. It might also visualize the mental effects of doping, who knows.

[via Cherryflava]

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