Princess – the music video game
Rektor has teamed up with Agens, a scandinavian flash design bureau, in order to present a new breed in online gaming: the world´s first playable online music video.
Web2.0
“Das Internet wird immer stressiger. Laufend muss man sich irgendwo anmelden, soll kommentieren oder etwas hochladen. Im Web 2.0 gibt es bald mehr Communitys als Internetsurfer.”
deshalb: alleinr.de
DJ Vadim Remix Contest
Creative Commons, BBE Music and DJ Vadim are pleased to present the DJ Vadim / “Kill Kill Kill” “Talk to Me” Remix Contest. The superstar DJ is offering the audio source files from the songs “Kill Kill Kill” and “Talk to Me” online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, so that producers worldwide can use the sounds in remixes and new compositions.
deadline: April 19, 2007
-> further informations ccmixter.com
Open Moko
OpenMoko ist ein neues Projekt zur Entwicklung eines Smartphones, das komplett mit freier Software ausgerüstet ist.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
“Ein internationales Forscherteam hat bei Ratten mithilfe eines Wirkstoffs gezielt eine Erinnerung gelöscht. Die Tiere erinnerten sich nach den Tests nicht mehr an ein bestimmtes Schockerlebnis, während andere Erinnerungen unangetastet blieben.”
(Artikel: 13.03.2007 – Gezieltes Vergessen bei wissenschaft.de)
Super-Close Google Maps Zooms
- Select a location and switch to satellite view
- Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right
- Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, 22, or 23, and wait. Some locations will now show more detailed imagery
The development of the mobile phone
“We have to build a portable telephone,” Cooper answered.
“What the hell is that?” Krolopp asked.
“A phone you carry around with you.”
“That sounds interesting. Let me clean up what I’m working on.”
“No, you don’t understand. This has to be done in six weeks.”
(in: American Heritage / Invention and Technology magazine, Winter 2007 issue)
Prototypes developed by Motorola designers (Foto: Motorola Inc)
