From the new album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky” available at http://www.okgo.net/store
Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of “This Too Shall Pass” off of the album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Syyn Labs (http://syynlabs.com/) over the course of several months. OK Go thanks State Farm for making this video possible.

From zero to 100km/h (62 mph) in just 2.9 seconds sounds very nice. XXXL-experiment obviously viral video for the BMW S1000 RR.

Via @DigiDNA, Mimeo and the Kleptopus King is a videogame for iPhone and iPod Touch developped by Shaun Inman, which pays homage to older systems and evolves from 2 bits to 4 bits, then from 4 to 8 bits, to 16 bits etc., as Mimeo gains his resolution back from the evil King.

Perhaps the very first level could look even more minimalistic, with fewer, bigger pixels, à la Space Invaders? Anyway, it’s cute, it’s clever, and it’s pretty.

I want to address my love of pixels. The aesthetics of Mimeo (and Horror Vacui before it) are not born solely from nostalgia. Good pixel art strikes the perfect balance between appreciable craftsmanship and the gestalt. A single pixel out of place, one too few or too many, ruins the illusion. There’s an unmuddied, economy of expression, the thankless result of the limitations of cartridge-based consoles.

A little demo video from the author below:

DICE 2010: “Design Outside the Box” Presentation
Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.

Traffic jams that occur for no reason, replicated for the first time on a test track.

Traffic that grinds to a halt and then restarts for no apparent reason is one of the biggest causes of frustration for drivers. Now a team of Japanese researchers has recreated the phenomenon on a test-track for the first time.

The mathematical theory behind these so-called “shockwave” jams was developed more than 15 years ago using models that show jams appear from nowhere on roads carrying their maximum capacity of free-flowing traffic – typically triggered by a single driver slowing down.

Read article at newscientist.com

Surya the orangutan and Roscoe the hound dog.

Other unlikely animal friends at nationalgeographic.com

and then, they discovered it was a “big-size iPhone” and got all sour and whiney.

Because they thought it was meant for them. They thought the iPad would be targeted at the “early adopter” and “power user” markets, as often the case with new Apple machines (e.g., the first iPod, or the MacBook Air). They don’t want to understand that for Apple, it makes more sense at this stage to convert new customers from the crowds who use their old Windows machines to surf the web and check their email a few minutes a day. That is, to seduce happy iPod users to switch for a (simpler, cheaper, familiar) Mac.

Those Mac users often advise their non-geek friends and family to get an iMac as their next computer because it’s powerful enough for their home use, the screen is great, and the price reasonable all things considered. Meanwhile, people get more computer-literate, computers evolve, and the iMac is not for “beginners” anymore.

So, Apple’s strategy for the iPad is to go deeper and attract those who are not ready for an iMac just yet.

iPad is the easy-to-use, all-in-one, computer for the masses.

iPad is the new iMac.

Read SMBC

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Magnus Muhr is 39 and lives in the small town of Karlskoga, Sweden. In his free time, he’s a photographer. And he has a great sense of humor.

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I don’t believe it’s actually working yet (the video looks like it’s not really the iPhone controlling it), nor that it can be bought yet, but I have to say that video of Parrot’s AR.Drone gives me butterflies in the stomach.

Via Laurent