Radiohead’s latest music video, “House of Cards”, was shot using LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) rather than cameras:
Learn more about how it was made at the Google Code Radiohead page. The coolest part is that Radiohead is making the data available to anyone who wants to play with it.
They provide some sample Processing code [...]
Now that iPhone 2.0 is out I started playing around with some of the new web features, and soon found that I had created the prototypical virtual light table that’s an essential demo for any new multitouch technology.
It’s about 100 lines of JavaScript. It grabs the 10 latest photos from Flickr’s “interesting photos” API and [...]
A couple months ago I hacked together a demo of Chipmunk Physics engine running on the iPhone using the unofficial SDK. It shows the standard Chipmunk demos, but also it reads in accelerometer data using the method described on the Medallia blog.
For the most part it was a fairly simple translation from standard OpenGL to [...]
Ever since the iPhone was announced, I thought it would be really cool if it had a GPS receiver, or at the very least was able to find your general location via cell phone tower triangulation (technically trilateration). The obvious benefits of such a system would include automatic positioning of Google Maps to your location, [...]
If you’re an Apple geek like myself, you might remember back in 1999 when WiFi was a brand new technology, and Phil Schiller demonstrated the new iBook’s Airport feature by jumping off a balcony holding an iBook with an attached accelerometer, which sent the accelerometer data wirelessly to Steve’s demo machine for display (see below).
Well, [...]
As much as I love the iPhone, it certainly has a few quirks. My number one complaint is the ridiculous recessed headphone jack that won’t fit nearly any headphone plug, other than skinny iPhone and iPod headphones. And it’s not like this was some naïve accident that Apple didn’t know about… since the first day [...]
There have been some questions as to the security implications of the “web installer” available for installing the XBMC iPhone Remote and other XBMC applications. This page explains how it works and the problems with XBMC’s web server HTTP-API which make this installer possible, as well as the solution to securing your XBMC web server.
Please [...]
I was folding my laundry tonight, and found these at the bottom of the pile:
Yup, my nearly brand new iPhone headphones rolled up into a neat little ball. They got run through the washing machine and dryer… oops.
After several minutes of detangling, I was left with a thoroughly kinked and curled set of iPhone headphones:
I [...]
Not many developers are happy with Apple’s solution for developing applications for the iPhone: web applications. Personally, I’m ok with it because I’ve seen what can be done with JavaScript.
Except for a few things:
Lack of access to the hardware. Inability to run applications offline. Limited integration with the rest of the user interface.
There’s not much Apple can [...]
I drove out to Ventura on Saturday to see my friend Jon who is on the Warped Tour doing some promotion for Capitol Records and absolutepunk.net. The drive there was ridiculous… about 3 hours from Los Angeles to Ventura (only about 60 miles), as was parking (I ended up parking a mile away and walking) [...]
