Absolut Machines: Online Quarter and Choir
The Absolut Machines Project is probably the most original things that I have came across lately in the Internet. It is a collaboration between ABSOLUT VODKA, and graduates from the MIT (Dan Paluska, Jeff Lieberman) and the Swedish Studio Teenage Engineering. This project consists of two parts, the Absolut Quarter and the Absolut Choir, and online visitors have the power to control both through Internet! The machines and also the way they work is a privilege that only New Yorkers have at the moment
Absolut Choir
The Absolut Choir is an online choir composed of 22 different robotic members that received as an input words and phrases from you and uses them as an inspiration to play music. when I tried it for my self I started seeing the choir singing through live webcam and I thought that no matter what I write it will not influence the end product. When I wrote Weberence I heard “We la la la o la la be la la o la re la la la o o o la nce la la la” and I was left speechless 
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Absolut Quarter
The Absolut Quarter is a music producing engine that combines art with technology in order to create something similar to a human Quarter. The online visitor becomes the fourth member where as the other 3 are robotic. You merely play the piano and the 3 robotic instruments play something inspired from your creation.
To try it for your self’s go to www.absolutmachines.com
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80,000,000 photos to describe English nouns
80,000,000 photos in one page sounds a bit difficult to achieve, but the MIT and New York University scientists found the way. The main objective was to manage to fit all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning (a total of 75,062).
With the help of Google they found photos describing each noun. The sum of all photos describing each noun resulted in a 32χ32 picture. This method was used for all 75,062 nouns and a huge mosaic was made. You can see it here. Clicking each pixel you can see which photos created it and which noun they describe.
Intel no longer support the MIT’s $100 laptop for kids
Intel Corp. decided to abandon the One Laptop Per Child Program that was founded by Nicholas Negroponte in 2005. The former director at the MIT aimed to deliver millions of laptops to children in developing countries. The price tag for these machines was set at $100 but currently the cost is at $188. The machines will run the open source linux and at the moment carry an AMD processor chip (rival to Intel).
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Sketch-to-system from MIT
MIT created a software program that can convert drawings into mechanical interactive systems. The result as you can see from the video below is very interesting. I am sure this new technology will give a new twist to school education.
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