Portrait Machine is an interactive photography installation that visualizes the connections between visitors. It makes these connections based on a number of features, such as clothing choice, hair color, facial expression, and composition within the frame. It presents both similarities and differences in these characteristics, remdining us of our connectedness and uniqueness, creating strong visual [...]

Casual clothing brand Uniqlo has created the most captivating web calendar, featuring a random assortment of stop-motion tilt-shift imagery from different locations around the world and charming background music by Fantastic Plastic Machine. Highly addictive. [via]
I just created a widget for Los Angeles, CA. You can create for other locations here.

When major newspapers are closing down, UK’s Guardian is opening up. Guardian announced their “Open Platform”, which allows anyone to access their content for free.
Open Platform is the suite of services that make it possible for anybody to build applications with the Guardian. It consists of two products: the Content API, is a set [...]

TiltShiftMaker is a free, online tool that lets you easily transform your existing digital photos into cool miniature style pictures. Tilt-shift is a photographic technique that is used to create special effects when taking a photo. Find out more about tilt-shift read the Wikipedia article.
Do checkout some tilt-shift pics here.

The next generation of computer surveillance systems is here!
Extremely useful and highly covert, the SpyCobra is perfect for parents that want to keep an eye on their kids’ internet activities, employers who suspect their staff are up to something or private investigators gathering information, the SpyCobra is a covert computer logging device that’s a giant [...]

Users hoping to learn something new—whether it’s French or trigonometry—begin by signing up for free with Popling and installing its Mac or Windows desktop software on their computer. They then subscribe to specific “poplings,” or topics they want to learn. There are more than 150 poplings currently available, including 11 languages and topics in math, [...]

Speakaboos is a site that aims to bring classic children’s stories into the digital world, primarily through storybook videos featuring celebrity narration, illustrations and original music. Stories are available for free viewing on the site, accompanied by links to educational activities, games and contests. The stories can also be downloaded for USD 0.99 per title, [...]

Now you can learn to play guitar online with the innovative 3D Guitar Learning System called iPerform3D. iPerform3D uses the patented MoCap360TM system, this interactive system goes way beyond video and allows you control every aspect of the lesson such as speed, camera viewing angle, camera distance etc. MoCap360 employs the same technology used to [...]

Buying a new home or rearranging your bedroom? You can save time and have more fun if you lay out your ideas in a floor plan.
Floorplanner provides an easy way to create and share interactive floor plans. Floorplanner is the easiest, quickest, and best looking way to create and share interactive floor plans. Using point-and-click, [...]