Highlights from NYU's ITP winter show 2009

Our friends over at Adafruit Industries made their way over to NYU's ITP winter show 2009 recently, and they've blessed us with some highlights. ITP shows are always interesting and worth a walk through, and this is one show we regret missing this time around. The fridgebuzz MK1 protoype alone is enough to snag our hearts -- a MIDI controller with 32 LED button switches and six copper switches, all in a super attractive package. The Super Duper cubes go beyond their ridiculous name, and operate as an interface to control video and music, with each cube boasting a gyroscope, accelerometor, battery, and wireless communication, so that the cubes can be turned (no wires!). There is plenty more to see, so hit the source link to check out photos and a video of the full highlights.

[Edmunn Posted Dec 23rd 2009 10:19AM]

Psychedelic :D

[Worker Posted Dec 23rd 2009 7:16PM]

@(Unverified)

Very. As a musician, I see some potential in this as a synth controller. All it needs is some assignable potentiometers (knobs) on the body, and an assignable tremolo bar... or two! Or three!

[geekthree Posted Dec 23rd 2009 10:22AM]

That totally looks like lights out meets a guitar

[One Love Posted Dec 23rd 2009 10:34AM]

geeks

[Digital1 Posted Dec 23rd 2009 10:35AM]

Don't show this thing to Activision.....

[SirNoDroin Posted Dec 23rd 2009 10:48AM]

oh ITP...with your 95% geek, self-indulgent, wanna be MIT, crap gadgets, that other 5% is always pure gold.

(I'm joining this program in a few years for grad school)

[HardToBelieve Posted Dec 23rd 2009 11:27AM]

And is thing supposed to be a musical instrument?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 23rd 2009 11:38AM]

Lol, looked like a saturday night live skit.

[n230099 Posted Dec 23rd 2009 1:32PM]

Would not be impressed.
http://www.littleumbrellas.nl/zappa-pictures/guitar2.jpg

[SWM Posted Dec 23rd 2009 3:40PM]

A lot of what follows is motivated, I'm sure, by jealousy:

ITP does a lot of neat stuff, that always seems to be missing *something*. Sometimes it's "arduinos in nerf" -type interaction devices which are supposed to be self-evidently interesting, or interesting by virtue saying "proprioception" and other words that non-NYUers making interactive whatsits don't use. Other times it's merely latching onto something that already exists: papers about memes or spam that are supposed to intrigue us because they're unusual fodder for academia. It's all stuff that I'd be into if my friends did it. But, of course, my friends have day jobs, and are not blessed by a pricey university as Experts if they make a buggy iphone game. Is it wrong to expect more from ITP?

[Minouris Posted Jan 7th 2010 4:54PM]

"Bother," said Pooh, as he watched his software superceded a mere two months after its release ;) The only remaining hope for my poor, late to the party Armchair Guitarist is that this will be more expensive than existing plastic instruments :P