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Some interesting things I found on April 25th, 2008:

# KlangStufen – „KlangStufen“ is an experiment to show, how much information you can get from the sound of a city. You can experience the urban space auditivly by mounting the different height levels of a city, which would not be possible in the real space at all. You should concentrate completely on the sounds, the visual remains in the background.

KlangStufen (Sound Steps) installation by Christiane Keller

A stair makes the different height levels conceivable to the user. The single steps correspond to the different height levels. So we can use the existing architecture to experience the urban space and to get information about it. The user selects his point of view in the city on a map projected on the wall. Now from this point you move along the y-axis upwards or downwards, depending on which step one is standing.

# Audio Ping Pong – Mike McCracken has a fun little project using an arduino, headphones and an accellerometer.

# Kids Be Gone – Mosquito Device – Are gatherings of teenagers and young adults affecting your business and your profits?
The Mosquito ultrasonic teenage deterrent is the solution to the eternal problem of unwanted gatherings of youths and teenagers in shopping malls and around shops.

# Tristram Cary, Tape Music Pioneer, VCS3 Designer, Composer, Dies – Tristram is credited by some as the father of tape music, originating tape music techniques in World War II. He’s notorious to the general public and sci fi fans as the composer of the music for the Daleks in Doctor Who.

# Puzzlemation – A Dynamic Tiled Display – Puzzlemation divides the digital display into pixels you're free to pick up and re-arrange. It can be used to create things as diverse as modular animated signs, to a uniquely challenging dynamic puzzle.

# LoFi Looping Tape Machine – xelent modified a bedside table alarm clock with a tape recorder into a lofi loop recorder.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on September 26th, 2007:

• Darth Vader Projector Alarm Clock – Star Wars alarm clocks have been done before, but this version is the first to project the time — and the Vader name — on the ceiling!
• Wind up lamp – WIND-UP BED SIDE LAMP This is for people who can?t sleep without the light. Also, people who read in the bed sometimes forget to turn off the light.
• CSS TOOLBOX: 20+ Tools For Working With CSS – A collection of CSS-related links – from basic tutorials to advanced tools.
• VOX amPlug – Headphone Guitar Amplifiers – Simply plug this palm-sized headphone guitar amp directly into your guitar, and enjoy serious guitar sound anywhere, anytime.
• Mad turntablist skillz – from DJ Sara, 8 years old, and DJ Ryusei, 5 years old.
• 5 reasons why the iPhone is older than you think – Everything new is old.
• Skullphabet – Free TrueType/OpenType skull font from Skull-a-day.
• Geeky sewing – Flickr photoset featuring cool quilts of Space Invaders, Zelda and Resident Evil.

This little anti-slouching posture alarm is worn around your neck and is designed to discourage slouching or poor posture when sitting at a computer or really any time you’re not embarrassed to be wearing it.

The Sitting Pose Corrector and Reminder Alarm – Cute?

Andrew @ OhGizmo! writes:

I can only assume a built in gyro or something related to that bulge of plastic on the neck strap detects when you’re leaning too far forward and when that happens an alarm will sound alerting you to sit or stand up straight. Presumably the alarm sound is something like a bird chirp otherwise I have no idea where the bird-design comes from. It also appears to have a basic LCD display showing the time and allowing you to setup other alarms as needed.

The Sitting Pose Corrector and Reminder Alarm is available from DealExtreme and costs $8.43.

Link via OhGizmo!