Sketch-a-Move by Louise Klinker and Anab Jain is a neat concept of toy cars that could translate lines drawn on top of them into actual movements.

Chose from one of the following characters to play a round of Super Mario: Link (from Zelda), Samus (from Metroid), Bill (from Contra), Simon (from Castlevania) and Mega Man (yeah right, from Mega Man). You can even use their weapons, how cool is that?
Play it here.

Remember this video I posted last year?
Derek Sivers extracts some very good lessons learned from it on TED.

[via TED]

Penney Design made modern movies to look like old catridge games.

This digital guitar by Misa definitely looks more like a real instrument than just another Guitar Hero controller. As the software is open source, new effects can be prorgramed individually.
The guitar instrument is purchasable via their website, no price stated though.

According to the movie charts almost everyone has seen James Cameron’s Avatar.
Here’s an interesting behind the scenes look of the performance capturing technique, that was used to animate the characters in this blockbuster.

Anyone up for a round of Tron style Tennis?

Magician Marco Tempest tests out “Magic Projection”, his new Augmented Reality Projection Tracking system, on the streets in Tokyo.

Speaking of opera, i am really not the first who insits on going. But looking at theese pictures of the opera “Siefried” presented in Valencia, Spain, i have to examine my opinion. Five hours of video on 14 simultaneous projectors.
I wanna go! I wanna go! now! go!

Nicholi White is the name of this highly entertaining young fella, lip-synching miscellaneous hip hop songs and posting them to his youtube page for the world to see.
Now there are thousands of teens that are nothing short of his, but what makes Nicholi’s vlog so special, is that he does this from an Apple Store in New York City, where lots of computers with internet connection are available to him free of charge. The whole thing smells like viral marketing, but up to now nobody has come out. Asside from that, isn’t the idea that this could really be an exceptional hobby by a New Yorker kid, that otherwise couldn’t afford a computer, simply to good?
Nicholi, i am a fan!