I’m going to do a terrible job of explaining this so I’d recommend watching this video.
But here’s a go.This technique/application allows the user when rescaling an image to prioritise the content within the image. Therefore all elements within the image are not uniformly rescaled but the less important stuff, often something like sky, will be scaled to a greater extent.
This is known as retargeting.

Hmm.
Reread that. Not brilliant.
Watch the video. You can see scary implications if this was in the hands of the paparazzi.

Found by: Rob

“Adobe, the San Jose software maker, will announce that it is integrating a standard format for high definition video into the newest version of its immensely popular Flash video player.”

New York Times article, via kurzweilai.net

Download beta Flash player update here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

Some demos here:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/fullscreendemo/

http://marcelfahle.com/2007/08/21/first-h264-demo-in-flash-player-9

http://www.ericd.net/2007/08/h264-playing-in-flash-player.html

Flightcase Warehouse.
Found and purchased by: Martin Roche

Paul downloaded it. Worth a play.
Created by the maker of PaRappa the Rapper.

Paul found it a bit easy. I enjoyed the letter-build effects.
Could have done with some more ’special’ characters.
Would have liked to have moved on to the next letter when I’d got it right (hence forming an extra penalty for guessing too soon).
Would also have liked it to speed up as the song progressed.

Story on webware.

Here’s one for Flickr:Made by Common Craft.

This music video pulls in photos from Flickr to represent the words in the song. Changes every time because it randomizes the search. A really nice idea.

http://www.avoision.com/experiments/astronaut/

via Infosthetics

RepRap is an open-source, low-cost rapid-prototyping machine. Version 1.0 is currently in development, but once it’s finalised, will become a blueprint that will allow people to build their own machines themselves, with the parts costing about $400.

Many of the parts of the machine can actually be ‘printed’ by the machine itself, and the goal is (eventually) to make the machine completely self-replicating.

You can listen to a talk about the project here, or visit the site here.