New products and services. The Arduino Ethernet and the Arduino Mega ADK. The Arduino Ethernet combines a regular Arduino board with the Ethernet Shield into a single board designed to power your internet of things projects. It has the ability (if fitted with an optional module) to be powered directly from the ethernet cable using a standard called “Power over Ethernet“, this makes ideal for permanent installations in buildings and similar structures. For example, prototypes of the boar... >>>>

Whilst cycling my bike around the Thames Path on Sunday I came across this. Slightly spooky but awesome, especially when it's so sunny outside that your eyes take ages to react to the darkness. So for a long time you just see the hanging dress and the reflection and can't see what it's hanging off. Ahhhh. The pictures don't really do it justice, you really need to go there to experience it. It's free to check out and if you want to spend a fiver a small boy will row you round it for 15 minut... >>>>

via todayandtomorrow.net Niklas Roy is on a roll, Electronic Instant Camera is an other new project by him. It’s a combination of an analog b/w videocamera and a thermal receipt printer. The device is something in between a Polaroid camera and a digital camera. The camera doesn’t store the pictures on film or digital medium, but prints a photo directly on a roll of cheap receipt paper while it is taking it. As this all happens very slow, people have to stay still for about three minutes ... >>>>

Artis babyboom from Dawn Amsterdam on Vimeo.... >>>>

via arduino.cc NYC-based interactive advertising agency and research lab Breakfast NY, in collaboration with Zach Eveland, just released The Verbalizer, an open source board based on Arduino, to use with Google Voice’s search for desktop. The Verbalizer connects wirelessly to a personal computer via Bluetooth. When you trigger it, it opens google.com in a new tab and activates Voice Search. An audio notification is played, signaling when google is ready for your queryYou speak into the... >>>>

Foursquare-challenging check-ins If you run the mobile app version of Google+ you can't help but spot the Check-ins feature--it's right there on the front page. It works with admirable simplicity: Push it, select the appropriate location which is spewed from Google Place's database, and tap "check in." Similar check-in status is afforded when you enable a status update to have a location attached. Privacy is neatly managed within Circles, and if you can bother to spend the time, you can cha... >>>>

Latest from the Teague Labs comes in the form of Computerless Arduino, small, inexpensive visual interface for Arduino that doesn’t require a computer to change the code, so you can take it with you and make awesome things anywhere. It consists of two major components; an Arduino-compatible microcontroller loaded with a realtime code interpreter, and a stand-alone 5 button LCD display to display port values and manipulate code. The display can be connected to the Arduino via a 4-pin p... >>>>

Created by Anthony DeVincenzi, David Lakatos, Matthew Blackshaw, Daniel Leithinger and Hiroshi Ishii at the MIT Lab, Recompose is a system for manipulation of an actuated surface. By utilising openCV, Kinect (i believe) and gesture recognition the team is working on an array of 120 individually addressable pins, whose height can be actuated and read back simultaneously creating an ever transforming landscape responding to body behaviour. Our system builds upon the Relief table, developed by L... >>>>

Pistil SF is a San Francisco-based company that sells blankets and napkins that feature a map of your favourite location. It could be your house, a vacation spot, a workplace, your school, etc. You pick the location, they make the map, then you have a picnic on your neighbourhood!These aren’t just any old Google Maps. In collaboration with Stamen Design, OpenStreetMap.org, and Cloudmade (under the creative commons license SA-by-SA), they are using open source data provided by OSM to design (... >>>>

Really like this. In conjunction with Design Tide Tokyo, architect Hideyuki Nakayama – a protégé of Toyo Ito -has teamed up with UNION, a manufacturer of door handles and levers, to create a glass globe doorknob. As you approach the doorknob you catch a glimpse of what appears to be another world, waiting for you to enter and join, but in fact is a reflection of the room on the other side of the door. via spoon-tamago.com ... >>>>