In this video, various members of the Tokyo hacker space 4nchor5 la6 ( Anchors lab, http://456.im ) try on Mitch Altman's trip glasses ( formerly know as the brain machine ). The glasses have flashing LEDs and audio synced at certain frequencies to induce different mind states.
We all tried them on and were pretty amazed and yes they are very trippy. You can see various swirling patterns, shapes and movements which are all created by your visual…
http://barcamp.org/BarCamp-Tokyo2009
This is one of the example video from Fumi's presentation on http://vimeo.com/4683457 "Weird Japanese Toys & Tools". This video shows an animation created in Excel, using the cells as pixels. Some believe it's fake so mid way through the video, the grid lines are enabled proving to the audience it's the real deal.
Fumi Yamazaki http://twitter.com/fumi http://fumijp.blogspot.com/
Excel animation http://tinyurl.com/oeywfz
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I caught up with Chris and Lauren Shannon who gave me their thoughts on Tokyo Barcamp. One of the issues Shannon raised was getting more women to attend future barcamps as they tend to end up being tech heavy. I'm definitely in favor of making future barcamps more diverse.
Just think about it… What if you were trapped under something heavy and the mouse was out of your reach? Scary, right? That's exactly why we have these keyboard shortcuts so you can still use Vimeo until the help arrives.
