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Archive for August, 2009
Great TED talks on future technologies
Building a techno-sixth sense
Mind control – closer than you think
Will death eventually be a thing of the past?
The ultimate reboot
Embracing an exponentially advancing future
Kool Skool: 15 Examples Of Awesome Bus Mod Art
The words Bus and Boring share more than just their initial letter but that hasn’t stopped an assortment of visionary artists from jazzing up this most utilitarian form of transport. These 15 examples epitomize the height of slick transit glorious!
C’Mon, Get Hippy!
(images via: David Icke, Buses On Screen and Career Capitalist)
Bubble gum on a bus? Sure thing – and not just stuck under the seats. One of the most enduring 4-wheeled symbols of TV pop culture hit the road in 1970 when The Partridge Family painted an old school bus in psychedelic Mondrianesque graphics and hit the road to faux-musical stardom.
(image via: TV Sinopse)
The series was revived in Partridge Family 2200AD, an animated cartoon version that, while supposedly taking place 200 years in the future, still managed a classic 1970s aesthetic right down to Laurie Partridge’s bell-bottoms. The Partridge Family bus also got a radical makeover, as seen above.
CatBus Cooler
(images via: GilNetwork and Amazing Facts)
First seen in the Miyazaki animated film My Neighbor Tortoro, the CatBusmoved on to bigger and better things… like Burning Man 2002. Stranger things have been spied upon the Playa but few have been more striking. It’s too bad every school bus didn’t look like the Cat Bus… generations of students would have arrived at school in a much better frame of mind.
Pimp My Bus
(images via: Guzer and More Cool Pictures)
Students at England’s Ellesmere Port Specialist School of Performing Arts don’t mind riding the short bus, and neither would you – if it was a low-riding, pimped out Caddy SUV bus! Info on the pimped-out bus is few and far between but it seems to be an actual bus that has received a Cadillac Escalade front-end conversion with air suspension.
The REALLY Short Bus
(images via: Oobject and Treehugger)
Didn’t make it into that swanky British performing arts school? Pity – instead of a cool Caddy you might be stuck riding the Tricycle Bus instead. This shortest of short buses brings kids to an Indian public school much the same way farmers bring their livestock to market. At least the kids aren’t destined for the stew pot… one hopes. Study hard, kiddies, study VERY hard!
School In A Bus
(image via: Hardware Zone)
At the opposite end of the scale is this rolling computerized school bussponsored by Microsoft and enjoyed by students in China. You’d better believe the kids riding on this bus will be exceptionally well behaved and won’t even think of tossing an action figure attached to a very long string out the window. Geez!
Sharp Dressed Bus
(images via: KJLyons, We Love Scotch and Art Car)
The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore is weird enough on its own but the bus parked right outside adds just the right amount of wacky. The bus is covered in pieces of broken mirror, then decorated with assorted bird and animal figurines because, well, why not? Forget that Caddy SUV bus, if I’m going to art school THIS is the ride of choice!
Panama Hat Tricks
(image via: The Panama News)
Panama has a long tradition of painting city buses as elaborately as the owner desires. Sadly, this blast of local color may be coming to an end – authorities prefer that all buses be painted in standard color schemes to match their route. On the bright side, do you really want to ride a bus that features The Undertaker on its rear emergency door?
Getting The Bends
(image via: A H Boon)
Advertisers just love buses; probably has something to do with huge, double-sided flat spaces that move through crowded urban areas on a regular basis. Since jaded city-types tend to tune out ordinary ads after a while, something striking is needed to drive home the message. In the images above, marketers take advantage of articulating buses and sliding entry/exit doors by incorporating their functions into eye-opening guerrilla advertising.
The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round
(image via: A H Boon)
Even big bus wheels are fair game – integrating a wheel or wheels into an ad also expands the area which can be used as ad space. Above are several choice examples that wheelie grab one’s attention.
Topsy-Turvy Bus Busts Budget
(images via: Gearfuse and Habeeb)
The Topsy-Turvy Bus was built by artist Tom Kennedy and commissioned by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream co-founder Ben Cohen working through BLSP, an acronym for “Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities.” The message being spread is that the U.S. budget is out of whack in a big way, to the extent that the government’s priorities are upside down.
Fast & Ball Bus
(images via: Just A Car Guy and Dark Roasted Blend)
Lars-Erik Fisk is a sculptor who turns things into balls. Trees, roads, barns and VW microbuses have all undergone the Fisk treatment, much to the awe & amusement of all who’ve viewed them. When not rolling up the world around him, Fisk is the Art Director for the rock band Phish.
Sky High School Bus
(images via: TBirds and Hacked Gadgets)
The good news? You’re riding on the coolest bus in your – or any – town. The bad news? On the jet bus, you’ll never be late for school again. That’s what happens when you yank a few rows of seats from a vintage school bus and stuff a Westinghouse J-34 turbojet engine through the rear doors. Ed Rooney approves… NOT!
World’s Ugliest School Bus
(image via: Oddity Central)
What do you call a hybrid of a truck and a bus? Perhaps this unnatural and ill-advised vehicle could be called a Truss; it’s that ugly. Students sit in the trailer portion much like cattle on their way to the slaughterhouse – on test days I’m sure they can sympathize. Only the bus driver gets some benefit from the configuration as he/she is isolated from the little monsters’ screaming, fighting and lunch tossing. It’s going to be very popular.
(image via: Cool Cars & Girls)
Now here’s the RIGHT way to build a truck-bus combo.
Bus Da Move
(images via: Ridelust and Nuffy)
The sides of the Shortcut High bus are emblazoned “Wanna be cool? Stay in school?”, and if all school buses were like this one, then it’s mission accomplished! Loosely based on a fabulous ‘49 Ford truck, this boss bus was the “principal” attraction at the 2002 SEMA show.
(image via: Michigan Bus Parts)
Here’s another view of this awesome gangsta bus that brings stylin’ to hypermilin’.
Stop The Bus!
(images via: Trend Land and Impact Lab)
Our final entry is not a bus – it WAS a bus. Three buses actually, who together have found new life as a bus stop in Athens, GA, home of The B-52s. Strange as it may look, the oddest thing about this bus stop is the fact that the City of Athens felt the need to set up a Bus Stop sign at the bus stop made of buses.
Augmented Reality is taking off
Arf (Georgia Tech)
a virtual pet you take anywhere
ARghhhh (Georgia Tech)
first person table-top action game
Sekai Camera (Tonchidot)
AirTag the real world
Kweekies (int13)
a portal to creatures in a parallel world
Layar (SPRXmobile)
Browse the world with an AR browser
Artoolkit for the iPhone (Artoolworks)
the most popular AR kit now on the iPhone
StudierStube ES (Imagination, Graz TU)
the only AR engine designed for mobile devices, now on iPhone
PTAM on the iPhone (Oxford University)
next generation AR tracking with no markers or images
Wikitude (Mobilizy)
a travel guide that “tells you what you see”
Virtual Santa (Metaio)
interactive Christmas application using the augmented reality
Augmented Reality Sightseeing (Fraunhofer IGD)
Historic photographs overlaid on your field of view while strolling in a street
Chromium, Bookmarks Here, Bookmarks There, Bookmarks Everywhere
As of yesterday dev channel build, Google’s chromium is adding a brand new feature to Google Chrome: bookmark sync. Many users have several machines, one at home and one at work for example. This new feature makes it easy to keep the same set of bookmarks on all your machines, and stores them alongside your Google Docs for easy web access.
To activate this feature, launch Google Chrome with the –enable-sync command-line flag. Once you set up sync from the Tools menu, Chrome will then upload and store your bookmarks in your Google Account. Anytime you add or change a bookmark, your changes will be sent to the cloud and immediately broadcast to all other computers for which you’ve activated bookmark sync (using the same XMPP technology as Google Talk).
For more information on this, please see this email to chromium-dev.
Happy syncing!
Layar and brightkite
Augmented reality coming soon on the iPhone:
Brightkite Augmented Reality from Brightkite on Vimeo.
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