Engadget visits NYU's ITP Spring 2005 Show
We got a chance to peep NYU's ITP Spring 2005 Show—year
two for us—and as per usual, they had some really interesting stuff going on. One of our faves was Fireflies by
John Schimmel, a set of three wirelessly connected communicators that transmit and "remember" the patterns tapped on
the jars, and then light up as color-coded artificial fireflies. Tres nostalgic!
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Yarbus was a remarkably well-built looking eye-tracking application for Tiger, by Jason Babcock. The data could also be streamed over the networkin this case to the next machine overand then repurposed to do something like display a kind of trippy gnat-swarm pattern, which would track his pupils movement.
Michael Jeffersons Slumberlight uses proximity sensors to light up a photograph at a distant friend or family members locationhe used the example of his 3-year-old son and 95-year-old grandmother, who would feel closer together knowing the other person had also gone to bed.
Too Fast For Tracks by Christopher Hall was vaguely reminiscent of the Sketch-a-Move, but actually real this timeby using IR sensors, one could create a wireless racetrack for the toy car.
Still Here by Morgan Barnard featured a bizarre color-based remote system for altering the visual and narrative directions of a pre-produced film in real time.
Presence frames, by Matty Sallin, have integrated motion detectors and network connections. Each tells the othervia an Internet connection, of coursewhen someone (presumably the person whose picture you use in the frame) walks in front of its counterpart, and lights up accordingly to signify presence.
Bubbles of a Note, by Russalette Magbanua, Yu-Chen Chiu, and Min-Jeong Kang, are a series of bamboo xylophone-like sensors that triggered bubbles in tubes of fluidguess we could only call it Snorksesque, eh?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Yet another Matt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM
wow! wish i could go, looks like theres some awesome stuff there
Corey Snyder @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM
Wow this stuff is amazingly cool!
fabienne @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM
aw i miss itp. *sigh* late nights soldering crazy stuff, pic programmers giving me hell, making holes in various sizes of plexiglass with power tools. those were the good ol' days.
thanks for the lovely report on the itp show engadget, keep up the futuristic proto gadget flow!
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PatC @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM
This was a not-to-be-missed show of our future technology geniuses' work. Thanks, Chris!
John @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM
This Fireflies project is the best thing Engadget has ever posted! I love it!
Liz Glines @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM
Hey John Schimmel,
I'm not surprised that I ran into your work again. I hope you and Nyugen are taking NYU by storm. -Screenprinting Liz