from one of the founders of MySpace (Brad Greenspan) …
Very impressive.
via TechCrunch
life through a liquid crystal display
Carnegie Mellon professor Dr. Randy Pausch passed away Thursday. He is known for his work on Alice, the Entertainment Technology Center, and his speech and book entitled “The Last Lecture”.
This weekend Google placed a link to his lecture on their homepage.
4.5M views and counting.
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Randy, you have shown me more courage than anyone I have met. You have inspired me and many others to seek out their dreams and to never let brick walls stop you. You “touched the world” and gave us hope in a society cynical its leaders and of the future.
RIP Professor. I am honored to have been your student.
~Michael
“Together with fellow Angry Man Jeroen van Hofwegen, I created a generative visual that shows the state of your living room. To do this we use the sound, light and temperature as input. The state of your living room is projected on your wall. The wall gets filled by organisms that live there in an abstract world. The wall is their habitat. So if it’s dark and there is no sound, some creatures will fall asleep.”
It’s kinda like the PlayStation Network commercial, but in real life….
via 6 Angry Men
via Fubiz
Some German students rigged a Wii fit to their PC for some Silver Surfer style action over Google Earth.
via Core77:
Radial Menus (aka Pie Menus) make it into Windows 7 (eta 2010), presumably for tablet and touch devices.

Bill Buxton was a UX (User eXperience) designer for Alias where Radial Menus were implemented for Maya and Sketchbook. He now works for M$. Personally, I like Radial Menus and think that they would have made sense for the iPhone, but Apple seems to hate them. (iRonic, huh?)
via CrunchGear
This guy is just awesome!
DimP is a Direct Manipulation Video player that allow users to drag items on the video screen at their rate of motion to move with the cursor. A great gift for investigators and folks that want to feel like they’re controlling time and space.
Missle Command + Multi-touch = Yes!
GreenPix is a massive wall of LED lights purely powered by solar energy. It is a true testament for sustainable design.
via Engadget
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