A nice visual installation presented in in Japan by Magician, visualist, and technologist Marco Tempest.
Very fascinating use of a virtual screen.
Found by my favourite visuals Blog createdigitalmotion
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A have found a great online generator for QR bar codes:
Chec it out here: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
You now a QR Code is this square barcodes you point your mobile phone cam to and you are taken instantly to a URL ( and much more) .
More Info on Woipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
Here is a QR Bar Code I generated for this blog URL.
Just point your mobile phone camera at this code and this blog will open in your phone web browser.
Of course you need a QR Code Reader Application for you mobile phone.
I found one for my Nokia 5800 here: http://www.upc.fi/en/upcode/download/
Even if my phone was not on the list of supported phones I was able to install it ( despite the warnings thatn my phone model is not compactible)
and it was running fine in a few minutes. I tested with several codes I found on the web and it works fine.
A new tiny japanese Head-Mounted Display might come out in 2008 fro the consumer market.
if this really hits the market next year it could be a big success.
This Head-Mounted Display from Japan might be the ultimate preview monitor for VJs,as well as great for lots of other uses, like watching movies with your mobile video player or ipod.
Read and see more about the new HMD in this article here (in German)
http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/90021
I will look out for some article in english
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