Produced by Steve Mann, Connor Dickie and Chris Aimone, this video showcases our first attempt at making something interesting from the vast library of giga-pixel inverse-holographic video we have taken over the last 5 years of the construction of the new AGO.

Consider this video just a “quick hack” as Steve Mann’s patented “virtual camera” system allows us to do so much more than just linear video. If we can find the funding and time, we plan to put together a project that really exploits the content that we have, like large-scale holograms, interactive VR scene, Omnimax projection…

All these are possible with this awesome camera setup.

See high-resolution versions of this video here:

massivechange.ca

Here’s a frame from the video. You can see me as a Cop, and Nikki Awesome as Nikki Awesome. It was super fun to film this. I hope I get more chances to do things like this while I’m in Toronto!

Check the video out here.  

Each year the FBI has an open encryption challenge:

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/dec08/code_122908.html

Here is the encrypted FBI cyphertext:



VFWTDLCSWV. YD NSLMIJFWEJFD GSW SL NIJNQBLM FOBV EJFDVF DLNIGTFBSL. KBVBF YYY.AHB.MSK/NSCDC.OFZ FS EDF WV QLSY SA GSWI VWNNDVV.

The decrypted cleartext reads:

STUPENDOUS. WE CONGRADULATE YOU ON CRACKING THIS **TEST ENCRYPTION. VISIT WWW.FBI.GOV/CODED.HTM TO LET US KNOW OF YOUR SUCCESS.

Am I the first to crack this? Google seems to think so. Will I be the recipient of an FBI home-invasion tomorrow morning (they now have my IP address)?

~UPDATE. I think I’m the second to crack this and post it for all to see. The other guy beat me by about 12 minutes.

The World’s Premier Conference for Young People

Changing the World brought together the world’s greatest visionaries to inspire young people to innovate and better our world. The topics covered included: technology, science, design, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and the arts. Among this year’s speakers were:

1 Nobel Peace Prize winner (for stopping nuclear war)

1 Star designer

1 Architect designing Asia’s tallest building

12 Entrepreneurs

1 Giller prize winning author

2 Internet millionaires

1 Engineer who creates $100 laptops for developping nations

1 Girl who was curing Alzheimer’s at age 15

1 Girl who gave British young people the power to vote

1 Scientist who stops human aging

1 Guy who created Mac OS X

9 Technologists

1 Futurist creating blob computers

… and more.

The Format

Each speaker was given 18 minutes to deliver their epic talk. Every attendee had the same experience. One day of rapid fire inspiration.

Innovation for All

As a non-profit organization, we want to provide a world-class conference to all students regardless of their age, financial background, and past leadership experiences. We believe that every student should be given the opportunity to be inspired and to learn from some of the world’s most fascinating people.

Well we did it - the Changing the World conference was a huge success! With over 1300 attendees and 15 amazing speakers we have established ourselves as THE conference for emerging youth leaders in art, science and business. A special thank you goes out to all who helped. Keep an eye out for myself (Connor Dickie), Justin Lee, Sylvia Cheng and Doug Wightman, because we are doing it again next year and it’s going to be even bigger and better!

I collaborated with Jacky Lee while in Taiwan on this interactive TV project as part of our ongoing research into interactive and emotionally-reactive television. It was installed at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the 2007 Animamix Biennial.

Backoff, Afrobin was created using our HiTV interactive television platform.

The “Community Vending Machine” or simply “Pepsi Machine” was a project that I completed while at the MIT Media Laboratory that was shown at Wired NextFest 2006 in NYC. I don’t have time to go into details now, but just know that it’s an interactive media purveying platform that uses multiple (14) individual spanning screens, computers, microphones and computer-vision to allow people to interact both explicitly and implicitly.

Most interesting for me is the fact that the machine passively generates knowledge about the specific audience that visits it and can then use this data to inform the content creators or even as a commodity to sell to 3rd parties. To this end the Pepsi Machine has expanded possibilities for generating value… I’ll elaborate more later.small, medium or large video demos available.

This technology is currently jointly PATENT PENDING with myself, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and PepsiCo.

If You don’t see me online or wonder why it’s taking me 12 extra hours to reply to your emails it is because I am in Taiwan giving a series of talks and demos.

Yesterday I spoke at Gamania about the Pepsi Machine, kameraflage and demoed my Motion-Sensing Dog collar concept (Which they totally loved).

Today I was supposed to give a similar talk at ITRI, but there is a category 5 typhoon on the way and it is dangerous to travel… Plus I have serious jet-lag, and need to save my energy for Nightmarket; a 3-day hack-a-thon.

As I am resident technologist/artist/hackist for Nightmarket, I will be helping the participants implement their ideas in addition to building my own installation from scratch with Jacky Lee to be unveiled/installed at the National Taiwan Museume of Fine Art

I’ll be back in Cambridge, MA. the first week of September with serious jetlag and a hankering for a cheeseburger.

A few weeks ago Natasha took me out for lunch on Newbury St. (Boston’s poshest area). As we were walking down the street a lady approached us and stated that we were the hottest couple on the street (um… ok) and that she and her partner were doing a documentary on the iPhone. She wanted to know if I wanted to say a few things on camera about it. I hesitated but Natasha urged me to do it, so I did.

A few weeks later I get a call from some producer at Moxie Pictures which is an agency that makes the commercials for Apple on behalf of Apple’s ad agency TBWA \ Chiat \ Day. The lady congratulated me and said that I landed the role as the next guy to be in Apple’s iPhone ad campaign! My reaction was like the caveman from the Geico commercial “YEAH, uh… what?” They said that they would fly me to NYC for a 2-day shoot next weekend. I even had to sign and FAX an NDA.

Apparently the documentary was just a cover, and that those people were simply casting for the agency.

Anyways, to make a long story short I am not able to do the campaign because I am not legally allowed to work in the USA.

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kameraflage^TM: Display Technology Visible Only to Digital Cameras

Here is my latest design that uses kameraflage^TM display technology. As you can see, the garment has elements that appear only in digital photographs. In this example you can see that the thundercloud has a lightning-bolt when viewed through a digital camera's viewfinder.

This garment, as well as other designs that incorporate kameraflage^TM technology will be on display at the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH Unravel fashion show on August 6th at a club called "On Broadway" in San Diego, California. Come check it out and say hi!

In the meantime I invite everyone to check out kameraflage.com to learn more about how it works and its other uses.

~ High-resolution press photo is available here.

~ Special thanks to Becky Hehn (model) and Dana Dodson (make-up).

The website for kameraflage^TM is now online and no-longer password protected. Why? I finally filed for a patent!

Go ahead, tell your friends! I am currently seeking investors to help me bring kameraflage^TM to the next level.

Next on the list: Incorporate an LLC.