XWave has joined emerging mind-controlled games and devices, but on the iPhone mobile platform. The iPhone headphone jack is used to connect a headset which allows users to control graphical images. According to the device’s developer,PLX, the device is also open to use with 3rd party applications. Mashable reports relatively accurate results in their testing with mental states states equating to changing visual changes on screen. The headset costs and the app is free. The rig is purely for entertainment, but it doesn’t take much mental imaginings to conjure images of how the technology could be put to amazing uses. Like controlling you phone using only your mind — would be great for hands-free driving and keeping radiation exposure to a minimum. For now it seems the other way around, with our iPhones controlling us like sirens, beckoning us to check email, read e-books and shoot video.
Until such time when a certain bleeding-edge technology provides shallow depth-of-field no longer dependent on the optics of large pieces of glass in a tube, you can immediately graft said glass tubiness onto your wee iPhone using Photojojo’s iPhone SLR Mount.
Will this eventually allow for shallow depth-of-field without the need for large lenses full of pieces of glass? Tiny, smartphone lens images manipulated into focal lengths of various lenses. Obsoleting iPhone accessories like Olloclip and the SLR Mount.
Newton interprets each 2D layer as a rigid body in a real environment. Once simulation is completed, animation is recreated in After Effects with standard keyframes.
Czech artists Vladimir Turner and Ondřej Mladý made a video performance on the streets of Prague mounting a pico projector to the bike handlebars to display a DIY digital bike lane.
ot to be confused with the world’s smallest stop-motion animation character which happened to have been shot with a Nokia N8 smartphone, Dot is an eyeball attachment for the iPhone 4 that allows you to shoot video in 360 degree panoramas.
Flavorwire has desaturated and uploaded 10 films that they claim provide a better viewing experience in black and white.
The Oona looks like a useful tool for rigging up your iPhone in tight shooting situations or as a car mount.
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