Augmented reality toys that can change pants and personality
Wohoo! I’m excited to see companies explore the posibilities of augmented realities.
London design firm Berg and Japanese ad agency Dentsu have announced a line of augmented reality toys called Suwappu. The little figurines have swappable heads and bodies; depending on how they’re configured, they interact differently and draw different environments for themselves in the augmented reality world.
Beyond these toys, we think Suwappu is a new kind of content platform, with various exciting social, creative and commercial possibilities.
Sir, There’s a Camera in Your Head
A New York University photography professor is going one further by implanting a camera in the back of his head.|
Oh snap! I’ve been overtaken again! This happens when you put your ideas on post-it notes and then lose them in the fluff of your messy working space.
For one year, Mr. Bilal’s camera will take still pictures at one-minute intervals, then feed the photos to monitors at the museum. The thumbnail-sized camera will be affixed to his head through a piercing-like attachment, his NYU colleagues say. Mr. Bilal declined to comment for this story.
The artwork, titled “The 3rd I,” is intended as “a comment on the inaccessibility of time, and the inability to capture memory and experience,” according to press materials from the museum, known as Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.
During the course of the discussions, Mr. Bilal has informed all of his students of his plans and has agreed to cover the camera with a black lens cap while on university property.
Oh, chicken! Don’t close your Is before the things it should not see.
