Neither of these have anything to do with design but it’s hard to not share when you find greatness like this.
Blow 1: 6th Sense Tech:
Our favorite futurist Frank shared this with us yesterday. Of course we’ve come to expect nothing less than cutting edge and inspirational from TED videos but this took the cake.
Blow 2: Music Production 2.0
There’s 6 more of these on his site but this was my favorite. It truly represents the shift into the DJ culture DJ Spooky talked about some time back. The idea of Open Source music creation taken to its logical and most creative conclusion. Enjoy!
Re: Blow 1:
That looks like a great input/retrieval concept, but sadly we’re still many many years away a sufficiently semantic web to support the real world application of a device like that. Scientific America posted an article back in 2001 called “The Semantic Web” which attempted to forecast the value of semantic data presentation in the near future, and it’s really amazing just how dead on they were. Open source efforts, like Mozilla’s new Ubiquity project, are also helping build industry interest behind microformats and markup semantics. Now we just have to hope the HTML5 *redo* hits the mark and sets up a forward+backward compatible update that is also flexible enough to take the sort of abuses that technological innovations like these are prone to dealing out.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/