Animoto users simply upload photos from their computer, Facebook or the iPhone to the Animoto Web site and select background music. (Starting in August, users will be able to incorporate video clips, too.) Animoto’s patent-pending software, which the company calls “cinematic artificial intelligence,” acts as a virtual director and editor, analyzing the photos and the music and automatically rendering a video that moves to the beat of the music.

Videos are ready in minutes and can be uploaded to YouTube, Facebook and MySpace.

http://animoto.com

This is a great article by Jennifer Van Grove on Mashable.com
which takes an in depth look at one of the coolest, newest
LBS (location-based-social) networking phenomenons out there today.

I’ve been using Foursquare on my iPhone since early March
and I gotta say it’s super fun and it really grows on you!

They’re currently working on an app for the BlackBerry as well!

Check out the article here:

http://mashable.com/2009/07/25/foursquare-app/

If you feel the ultrasound photo printouts aren’t quite enough for you, and you’d prefer something a little more tangible, a new scanning technique allows expectant mothers to hold a life-size model of their unborn child.

Personally I think its creepy, but “We can build him, we have the technology!”

via esao.net

via Vice Magazine

From WMMNA:

The Cloud Project takes the shape of a retro van selling ice-cream flavored clouds. An industrial-strength water spray mounted on top of the ice cream van would shoot a mix of liquid nitrogen and ice-cream into the atmosphere as a fine spray, leading to flavored condensation nuclei that will seed ice-cream clouds and give them the flavour of your choice.

Here’s what is actually going on…

“Developments in nanotechnology and planetary-scale engineering point to new possibilities for us to conform the global environment to our needs. These advances combined with a dream to make clouds snow ice cream have inspired a series of experiments that look at ways to alter the composition of clouds to make new and delicious sensory experiences. Using ice-cream as a catalyst for interesting dialogue, the project’s focus is to welcome people into a mobile space that sits outside institutions, letting new audiences experience and imagine emerging scientific developments and their consequences.”

www.thecloudproject.co.uk

Take a browse at http://todseelie.com

Excerpt: “The Dutch have been fighting the rising and falling tides for centuries, building dikes and pumping water out of areas that are below sea level. Now, rather than fight the water infiltrating their land, the Dutch will use it as part of a new development called ‘New Water‘, which will feature the world’s first floating apartment complex, The Citadel. This “water-breaking” new project was designed by Koen Olthuis of Waterstudio in the Netherlands, and will use 25% less energy than a conventional building on land thanks to the use of water cooling techniques.”

via Inhabitat

Design credit: Efecem Kutuk

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