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innovations of sorts

nickyskye — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:06:20 -0800

Some new gadgets, things and inventions: solar bikini that charges your ipod, paper soft wall, waterproof laptop, million dollar fishing lure, Obvio hybrid micro-car, needle-free injection, hi-tech dummies that can speak, breathe, bleed, react to drugs & die, dragon bag. Interactive sight, sound and physical objects from the student artists of the NYU Interactive telecommunications biannual showcase [video], including Animalia Chordata and Botanicalls, building telecommunications between people and their plants.

By: adamgreenfield

adamgreenfield — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:13:44 -0800

(Some of my favorite ITP student projects here.)

By: BillyElmore

BillyElmore — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:19:15 -0800

All that great high-tech stuff, and I keep thinking about that silly dragon bag.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:02:12 -0800

Ok, I laughed at the dragon bag at first, but then I thought how cool it would look strapped to my back as I roll down the highway on my motorcycle.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:05:49 -0800

Hope it breathes fire at purse snatchers. Or bites them.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:07:36 -0800

Come to think of it, It would be doubly cool breathing fire on Eideteker's bike.

By: flaterik

flaterik — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:22:26 -0800

breathing fire on Eideteker's bike. Might want to avoid breathing fire ON to a bike. A motorcycle on fire is very amusing, but for a much shorter period of time than one that's not.

By: OverlappingElvis

OverlappingElvis — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:23:15 -0800

I'm curious as to what the advantage of the needle-free injection device is - does it make the lives of doctors and nurses easier? As someone who is very needle-phobic, the idea of having something not only poke into me but actually stay under my skin seems, if anything, more horrifying and traumatic. I'm also a wimp.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:09:50 -0800

This dragon bag is too black-leather-gay for my taste. I'd prefer purple-sequin-gay, myself. I like shiny, scaly, pretty dragons much better.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:15:49 -0800

That solar bikini can't be very comfortable. And you can't get it wet. And of course making a one-piece version with a lot more photovoltaic cells would mean your iPod would charge a lot quicker, but I guess one-piece suits are just not worn by hip, iPod totin' youngsters these days. I think an iPod charger hat might be a better idea: easy to put on and take off when you wanna go for a splash. Now, the dummy that dies, there's something to write home about! DIE, DUMMY, DIE!!

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:53:37 -0800

Just watched the video of the bikini designer student, who informs that the one piece would be too expensive. OK, fair enough. Hat would still be better. One thing I found sort of interesting: the guy says he originally signed up for the class (on energy sustainability, I believe) solely because he thought it'd be an easy 2 credits. His words to his classmates at the beginning of the course: "I'm not really interested in sustainability". Not really interested? How can anyone with a lick of sense and alive on this beleaguered planet today not be interested in sustainability? But lo and behold! A college education is good for something, 'cause he started getting interested in sustainability! Still oughtta be a hat. Dumb college students.

By: Wilder

Wilder — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:31:31 -0800

Overlapping Elvis, the demo was badly made IMHO. It shows what looks like the tip of a conventional needle being deposited under the skin. That slim metal like thingy was meant to represent the drug that had been delivered by the needle-less mechanism, which then is absorbed into the tissues, pushed one imagines by some force like high=pressured air....?

By: vronsky

vronsky — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:30:36 -0800

That paper soft wall is pretty badass. I want one.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:56:43 -0800

solar bikini that charges your ipod What are words for, when no one listens anymore?

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:00:09 -0800

(Link MNSFW, but it was on MTV a few times. YMMV.)

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:14:16 -0800

Woooo-eee! Thass one heck uvva music video, there, mister Smart Dalek! I tell yew whut, buddy, she kin charge my iPod with that there solar swimmin' suit ennytime she want to, know whut-I-mean?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:37:01 -0800

When the nimrods finally deliver my Personal Jet-Pack I'll start thinking about solar undies, etc...

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:45:44 -0800

I was gonna say DRAGON BAG!!! But that was before I looked at the OBVIO!!!!

By: Artifice_Eternity

Artifice_Eternity — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:40:51 -0800

I blogged the ITP show here, with photos and video clips.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:53:12 -0800

iPod Movie will require a DD cup.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:05:58 -0800

The Obvio page is a little odd - the pictures are all stock marketing images of components made by other companies. The only two images of the car itself that aren't CG are of the dashboard only, looking like they were taken by a visitor to someone elses' car show.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:19:21 -0800

Absolutely. I won't be sending them any money, but I love the look of the cgi's.

By: dozo

dozo — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:38:26 -0800

I've seen the dragon bag creator's work before. He has a LiveJournal account, and his work is amazing. Here's two pages with pics of a Cthulhu "doll" he made. I can't find the pic anywhere, but there's one with a child sitting next to the L'il Abomination for reference, and it seemed 4 feet tall-ish. Great stuff.