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Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0

Visualization
Trip Map - Michael Chang
“On Yahoo! Travel, travelers can create a trip plan. In this example we show with animation all the trips that users have contributed. It is an expression of a community of travel knowledge using the trip start point in the U.S. to their world wide destinations. As you watch the number of trips increase, a map of the world emerges.”

Traffic Map -Aaron Koblin
“Many displays of current traffic conditions exist right now. However, most useful would be a way of seeing a forecast of what's likely to happen during the commute. In this application, we have gathered and are visualizing data for Los Angeles. Unexpected patterns and trends emerge that could start to create new approaches to traffic forecasting and advice for commuters.”

Tense - Burak Arikan
Exploring the growth of a networked system. A dynamic network begins with a few nodes and reaches to a complex behavior as nodes and connections are added and removed. While the nodes pushing and pulling each other, strong forces create bright colors and weak forces create dark colors.

Navigation
FlickrLens - Michael Chang
“Our experiments with visualizing live social data have included different map projections, here displaying photos for a particular geographic spot from the Flickr photo-sharing service. ”

BookScape - Michael Chang
“The Open Library project (part of the Internet Archive) has scanned and digitized about 2,600 illustrated books for children, all full of about 250,000 illustrations total. It it hard to see all the pictures without paging through each book however, so this experimental interface uses dynamic resampling of image data to place all the images in one zoomable space, arranged alphabetically by title.”

Jaw-dropping Photosynth - Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.

Multi-touch Display
Perceptive Pixels Multitouch Display - Jeff Han
JJeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen
Perceptive Pixel is a startup founded by Jeff Han. Working all but alone from his hardware-strewn office, Jeff Han is about to change the face of computing. Not even the big boys are likely to catch him. Jeff Han and Phil Davidson shows how a multi-touch computer screen will change the way we work (and play).

MS Surface
2008 CES Demo
Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a shiny black table base, topped with a 30-inch touchscreen in a clear acrylic frame. Five cameras that can sense nearby objects are mounted beneath the screen. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by setting real-world items tagged with special bar-code labels on top of it.
Prices for the Microsoft Surface will reportedly be $5,000 to $10,000 per unit. However Microsoft said it expects prices to drop enough to make consumer versions feasible in 3 to 5 years.

Apple iPone
Multi Touch Patent By Apple Computers for Interactive Screens

Physical Interaction
Delicate Boundaries - Chris Sugrue
As digital technologies become more embedded in everyday life, the line between the virtual and real is increasingly blurred. Delicate Boundaries imagines a space in which the worlds inside our digital devices can move into the physical world. Small bugs made of light, crawl out of the computer screen onto the human bodies that make contact with them. The system explores the subtle boundaries that exist between foreign systems and what it might mean to cross them.

Shadow Monsters - Philip Worthington
"Shadow Monsters" is an installation by Philip Worthington that creates shadow puppets with a difference. Puppeteers place their hands in front of the lightbox and make shadow creatures in the usual way. Recognising the shape of hands however, the installation then adds teeth, spikes and tongues in the gaps that are intended to form the creatures' mouths. Opening a mouth even causes a monster to growl!

Big Screen/ Meditative Mind
About a year ago, IAC posed a question for ITP students: What can you do with New York City's newest and largest blank canvas, a 120 by 12 foot video wall at IAC's new world headquarters designed by Frank Gehry. Excited by the idea, we developed a one-semester course, Big Screens, to take up the challenge and provide students with this unique opportunity to experiment, play and wrestle with the demands of this new platform.

Architecture + Performance
L.A.S.E.R. Tag - Graffiti Research Lab
a computer vision system paired with a projector that enables one to write on walls using a high-power laser pointer.

Improv Everywhere
mprov Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places.

LED Throwies - Graffiti Research Lab
LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends and city officials.

D.I.Y. Technology
Instructables.com
Instructables is the World's Biggest Show & Tell where people share what they do and how they do it.

Make Faire - O'Reilly Media
It can be practical or impractical—it could be something simple like a creative costume or maybe some handmade jewelry. Or it could be something wild like a bike with ten wheels, or a dog-powered lawn mower. Whatever it is, the more creative and imaginative, the better!

Make: - O'Reilly Media
The first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, MAKE Magazine unites, inspires and informs a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages.

Craft: - O'Reilly Media
The first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance that is occurring within the world of crafts. Celebrating the DIY spirit, CRAFT's goal is to unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly imaginative and resourceful people who are transforming traditional art and crafts with unconventional, unexpected and even renegade techniques, materials and tools; people who undertake amazing crafting projects in their homes and communities.

Wearable
Hug Shirts -CuteCircuit
a high-tech garment that simulates the experience of being embraced by a loved one. When a friend sends you a virtual hug, your cell phone notifies the shirt wirelessly, via Bluetooth. The shirt then re-creates that person's distinctive cuddle, replicating his or her warmth, pressure, duration and even heartbeat. And, yes, the Hug Shirt is fully washable.

LED Tank Tops -Leah Buechley
The LilyPad Arduino is a microcontroller board designed for wearables and e-textiles. It can be sewn to fabric and similarly mounted power supplies, sensors and actuators with conductive thread.

Nike + iPod
Meet the must-haves for the ultimate synthesis of sport and music: a pair of Nike+ shoes, an iPod nano, and the Nike + iPod Sport Kit. Find out what happens when the leading name in sports and the leading name in digital music team up to take on your workout.

LilyPad Arduino-Leah Buechley
The LilyPad Arduino is a microcontroller board designed for wearables and e-textiles. It can be sewn to fabric and similarly mounted power supplies, sensors and actuators with conductive thread.

Education
Tech D.I.Y. - Ji Sun Lee
The D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) technologies project for women, Tech DIY, involves a holistic process of mothers and daughters learning electronics together and sharing this with others. With the Tech DIY kit, mothers will have a good time with their children. It will offer alternative views of how mothers and their children relate to technology. Children will see that women can understand and be creative with technology.

PicoCricket - Lifelong Kindergarten
PicoCrickets are tiny computers you can use to create musical sculptures, interactive jewelry, dancing creatures, and other playful inventions.

Mindstorms -Lego
a high-tech garment that simulates the experience of being embraced by a loved one. When a friend sends you a virtual hug, your cell phone notifies the shirt wirelessly, via Bluetooth. The shirt then re-creates that person's distinctive cuddle, replicating his or her warmth, pressure, duration and even heartbeat. And, yes, the Hug Shirt is fully washable.

Art vs. Business
We make money not art
art is not terrorism ... We make what? We visit art galleries, listen to conferences, cover art and design events, take a lot of pictures, ...