This bought a smile to our faces here at digital urban – Micro Origamic Architecture – buildings created as pop up cards.
Origamic Architecture from Building to Card is a collection of exquisite pop-up card patterns by artist Ingrid Siliakus. Her work was recently featured in an exhibit at the American Craft Museum in New York – take a look at the YouTube movie below:
The music is kind of catchy as well….
See Ever More Design for more info and how to purchase your own Origamic Architecture.
Sometimes it is easy to overlook how good ‘old’ style technologies are. For example, pencil and paper has automatic 100% handwriting recognition, is zoomable, viewable from any angle in any light conditions and is compatible with any number of filing systems.
As such the US Census Bureau will be ditching its PDAs in favor of paper and pencil for the 2010 census. To be honest this makes sense on a number of levels.
Sure it goes against our natural urge to geo-tag, document and process data on site via an edge connection, preferably while streaming video, but sometimes its easier to go old school.
We are just looking at our gps pda enabled mapping system for a campus route finder and thinking it might be better to use paper, a pencil and a compass – this could catch on.
Picked up via Engadget..
The revolution in geo-location is continuing apace with video content combined with GPS location and live streaming making it the latest ‘must have’ on the block from the people at Seero.
Gadgets such as the Nokia N95 are ripe for such content being able to stream video live (more on that in a future post), track the location and send data to a server all at the same time.
Seero breaks new ground by being the first platform to allow its users to broadcast live and
on-location through Google Earth. Viewers can load Seero’s global KML feed in GEarth and see
the GPS positioning of each broadcaster along with their live video feed.
Justin Cutillo, Seero’s CEO, describes the new feature: “the end goal is to utilize Google Earth and Seero’s broadcasting platform to create an accurate and dynamic representation of what’s happening in the world and where it’s taking place.”
It really is one of the moments that you have to take a look at the demo, sit back and then think how amazing is the ability to stream your location, video and sound live to a blog, Google Map or Google Earth.
New releases tend to wash over us at times but this is one to watch. If our N95 had unlimited data we would be streaming our route home on the 24 bus to Camden Town (just because we could) but sadly in the UK at least mobile Internet is still expensive so a lot of N95 users have made the leap to iPhones due to unlimited data being part of the package.
The iPhone’s location finder is interesting, lacking the accuracy of the Nokia N95’s dedicated GPS unit yet able to provide a fix in under 10 seconds, it is arguably more useful than a standard satellite navigation system.
Our N95 was let down by a slow fix time, leaving us looking slightly foolish when friends asked where we were, only to pull out the latest gadget which five minutes later was still trying to access satellites. The iPhone on the other hand provides an almost instant location via triangulation of phone mast signals and known wifi points.
Accuracy is limited but it works and provides a quick and easy way to orientate yourself in the city, and now thanks to Navizon you can track your friends as well. Navizon is an application that builds on the iPhones ‘locate me’ feature, it tracks both your and any friends location every 10 seconds issuing you with an alert when they come into a predefined range.
You can add your friends to your Buddy list with a click of a button and then simply click on “Buddies” to see where they are on a map. Your friend will receive an notification with a link to click on and you will be able to see each other’s location.
The YouTube movie embedded below provides a walkthough of Navizon:
This is the first example we have seen of near real-time location tracking of people on a consumer device. It is perhaps a landmark moment in geo-software and an indication of the route ahead as we are all becoming increasingly ‘geo-located’.
There is a free trial available and more details from http://www.navizon.com