[CONCEPT] 3D laser scanning opens up new possibilities to architecture. This powerful tool can provide a highly accurate representations of existing buildings.
[CONCEPT] Teehan+Lax were looking for a way to make the process simpler using Google Street View but they actually ended up with a tool capable of creating hyperlapse videos with the data from Google's mapping service.
[CONCEPT] Created by MC10, this "tattoo" is a flexible electronic circuits that stick to your skin and monitor your health.
[WEIRD APP] This Chrome extension will turn your head upside down. Well, only in particular cases: pages located in the opposite hemisphere will appear upside down.
[WEIRD APP] This new iOS app is "an exploration between photography and nostalgia." The pictures you snap with ThrowBack cannot be seen right away. You set the time of the "big reveal" yourself, from one month to five years.
[MUST-HAVE] Just like a regular kazoo, it contains a flute which acts as a breath synthesizer. You can also produce sounds by tapping on its touch sensitive surface or record your voice with the built-in microphone. If the "most versatile entertainment assistant ever" was primarily built to create music, it can actually achieve so much more.
[MUST-HAVE] The world's first thermochromic athletic shirt is now available! The Radiate shirts will give you "thermal vision on your body". The clothes react to your body temperature. They change color when your veins expand or your muscle swell, giving you a precise idea of which parts of your body are working out.
[WATCH&LISTEN] Using the fly over option of Nokia's maps service, Here, Paul Wex recorded views from various cities across the globe, including New York, Toronto, Chicago or London.
[WEIRD APP] This interactive app allows you to wander in the immensity of the Internet. The map is a 3D visualization of the all the networks that forms the World Wide Web.
[WTF] This piece of conductive fur can perceive your mood from the way you "pet" it and react accordingly.The Cuddlebot can recognize nine different kinds of strokes and after a while it can even remember the user from the way he touches it.
[DIGITALLY-INSPIRED] Instead of the usual fashion show, Andrea Crews for a new way to present its new FW '13 collection: Vine!
[ROBOT UPRISING] Build your own humanoid robot with your 3D printer! Gael Langevin is creating a 3D-printed robot whose plans are open source and can be downloaded on Thingiverse.
[ROBOT UPRISING] Quadrocopters just got a brand new ability thanks to an experiment conducted in Zurich. They can now throw in the air an inverted pendulum and also catch it in flight.
[WTF] The Automee S is a small cleaning robot that will take care of your tablet or smartphone's dirty screen. It is equipped with cleaning pads that will remove any stains caused by greasy fingers
[WATCH&LISTEN] The first part of this documentary by Jonathan Minard about the challenges of preserving digital contents focuses on the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco which is trying to constitute an universal Internet Library.
[MUST-HAVE] 3D printing innovations keep flowing! This week: a pen. The 3Doodler enables you to lift your imagination of the page and create in 3 dimensions. The pen extrudes heated ABS plastic which solidifies once it is cool. You can draw on a surface or directly in the air, in 3 dimensions.
[WEIRD APP] Watching television in a foreign country can be a real pain when you don't speak the language. Loducca imagined a solution to this problem with "Easy Way Subtitles". This website translates the closed captions of the main Brazilian channels in the language of your choice.
[MUST-HAVE] Details about the highly-anticipated Google Glass were just released today. A new video gives us a better look at the functionalities and design of the device and will make you totally desperate for one.
[CONCEPT] This new photo editing interface lets you use voice control to perform modifications on your pictures. Conceived for the increasingly popular mobile devices, PixelTone combines speech and direct manipulation for a more precise execution.
The new issue SFR Player, the magazine about digital innovations published by SFR in collaboration with AMUSEMENT is just out! This edition focuses on data and the new challenges this explosion of informations implies. Whether it is their storage, manipulation or the concerns about privacy, data raise new issues that are at the core of…
