Touch Sight, Camera for the blind

August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Every now and then, I see an invention that just blows my mind, and this is that time.  Designer Chueh Lee at Samsung China, has developed the `Touch Sight’, which may be the world’s first camera for the blind.  The camera works when the user presses down the shutter.  Instead of visually capturing an image, the camera records the sound for three seconds once the shutter is pressed.  Obviously the camera does not have an LCD, but instead has a braille display sheet which displays a 3D image by embossing the surface, allowing the user to touch their photo.  “The sound file and picture document combine to become a touchable photo that is saved within the device and can be uploaded to and shared with other Touch Sight devices.  Via 

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Bizarre, Blog, Invention, Social Interaction, Technology, UGC 

The O2 memory project

April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments

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So Saturday I hoped down to the Southbank for an afternoon of awesomeness with Charlie, Priyanka, Sam and Charles to see the O2 Memory Project. The instillation created by Jason Bruges, camera-captures panoramic movements and stores them within it’s digital memory bank inside. You can then go inside the instillation and see images that it has taken and here’s some for the photo album from Team Awesome

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Although the project is a great idea, it wasn’t executed as well as I would have hoped however, we managed to add an additional BOOM (as Sam would say) to the project. After leaving the instillation, we went to the Hayward Gallery to see what other toys we could play with and stumbled upon these little cardboard camera’s that you put over the lens of your camera to make your photo’s a little more interesting.

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Now OK these images didn’t come out as well as we had hoped when we put them over the memory project, but below you can see the effect it’s supposed to create below.

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Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Art, Bizarre, Blog, Instillation 

Rickroll flash mob

April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

So I am a little late writing this post but on Friday evening I headed over to Liverpool Street Station to take part in the Rick Astely flashmob. If you don’t know what a flashmob is then you can look here. If you don’t know what all the fuss is about with Rick Astley then you can find out here.

As flashmobs go, it wasn’t one of the greatest but it was still really fun nevertheless. 5:59pm people were loitering around the departure boards and as the final ten seconds took us to 6pm the excitement began. It is unfortunate that more people watched rather than participate as it’s not really in the spirit of flashmobs however, you can see what you think courtesy of my Qik video

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Bizarre, Blog, Community, Events, Experiential, Music, Social Interaction, Video 

Don’t click

February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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I saw a few months ago but never actually noted it down until I wanted to show it to someone this evening. Imagine going to a website and never clicking. Trust me, it’s harder than you would think. German Artist Alex Frank designed and developed a website to test your surfing habits whereby the entire navigation of the site goes against your natural instinct and encourages you not to click, instead by moving your cursor you can unveil the layers within the site. Pretty impressive.

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Bizarre, Blog, Experiential, Internet, Navigation, Technology, newsRight 

New York underwear flash mob

January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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On Saturday, 900 people gathered in New York for the latest flash mob courtesy of Improveverywhere for the 7th annual No Pants Subway Ride. Escorted by the NYPD, participants had to spread across three subway lines and stretched six per car. The event also took place in Boston, Washington DC, Portland, San Fransisco, Chicago, Toronto, Baltimore and Salt Lake City. Source: Trend Hunter

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Bizarre, Blog, Events, Experiential, newsRight 

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