Michael VanDaniker recently posted a a link on his blog to a data visualisation demo that he created for viewing the changing market share of browsers. Its nice,it shows how IE’s share is slowly being eaten away by other browsers, but what’s interesting is that it has been built on an open source data visualisation SDK called Axiis.
Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike. It provides both pre-built visualization components as well as abstract layout patterns and rendering classes that allow you to create your own unique visualizations.
This is the most exciting thing I’ve come across so far at the CES2010 shindig…
CNET reports on a new method of generating power that was displayed at the recent Consumer Electronics Show. RCA demonstrated a small battery pack that can convert energy transmitted in Wi-Fi signals into DC power.
They explain:
“The device, called the Airnergy, uses an antenna and circuitry to harvest the energy and an internal battery to store the electrical charge. A company representative told OhGizmo that they were able to charge a BlackBerry from 30 percent to full charge in about 90 minutes using the ambient Wi-Fi signal at CES, although the charge time varies depending on how close the battery is to the original signal.”
I’m not massively into the FWA websites (www.thefwa.com), always lovely looking but often pretty much unusable….
Having said that, they’ve selected this site – http://soytuaire.labuat.com/ - as their Peoples Choice site of the year, which I reckon is a pretty good call, beautiful and purposeful execution that we covered on the blog early last year.
They’ve also selected http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/ as their Nokia-sponsored Site of the Year…less into this one to be honest.
What do you think, any thoughts of your favourite site of last year?
We’ll blog some more about this once we’ve waded through all the great stuff on show. In the meantime, check out the CES site for the highlights. http://ces.cnet.com
This is a video showcasing the CES Award winners this year, check it out:
…he is one of our uber-talented creatives at Saint. For the past year, Jeeves has been working on an art installation with a difference, RatTable. That’s right, he’s getting actual rats to chew their way through a solid block of actual wood to create an actual table.
“The finished piece the rats carve will be a giant solid wood block. There are no guides on the wood, or internal or external frameworks. It’s just a solid block of wood. It’ll be around the size of your average coffee table. Based on tests we expect them to carve it into a table shape in approximately 24-48 hours. The whole thing will be filmed from a series of cameras overhead, side view, free roaming and a series of still cameras. The cameras will roll continuously, so you will be able to see it from all angles as we let the rats, do their thing.”
Jeeves has turned his (very understanding) parents garage into a studio and temporary hangout for would be rat-sculptors, and the past year has seen him hone the idea,test techniques and create small scale versions.
The final work should be ready sometime in the summer, keep tuned for updates at www.rattable.com – this is going to be PR gold.
You can view a teaser trailer here:
“I like doing things that makes people go, ‘how the hell did you come up with that?’ As a creative, I think that’s the biggest compliment you can get.” …Jeeves – you legend.
“Subcycles is a sound controller application that [Christian] is using on the third multitouch display that he built. The screen is a sheet of acrylic in an aluminum frame. The image is rear projected onto an area covered with Digiline dispersion film. As with other projects that use the Community Core Vision package, a PS3 eye camera captures the touch information.
This build does a great job of including the audience in what the musician on stage is doing. [Chris] points out that the sight of artists staring at laptops on stage is becoming more and more common. The ‘Minority Report’-like interface that Subcycles uses makes not just for interesting music, but for an added visual reinforcement to the live part of the performance.” Lifted from Hack A Day
