Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

Engadget.com

There are lots of contenders for the killer app that’ll take the iPad to the next level, and we think light extrusion is currently near the top of the heap. Dentsu London has paired accelerometer-based software with long exposure/stop-motion photographs to take 3D renderings into real space, with a result that reminds us of the Graffiti Research Lab.




  1. Troublemaker says:

    Errr… I think you posted the wrong video.

  2. The DON says:

    OK, I may as well be the one to start the flame war.

    CRAP!

    (like most ‘modern art’)

  3. ethanol says:

    Definitely creative thinking.

  4. Aude says:

    Cool idea, not a holograph tho.
    im actually designing holographs.

  5. deowll says:

    Maybe you are both right. I think it’s creative crap but it’s still crap.

  6. chuck says:

    Isn’t a “killer app” supposed to be something that is so compelling that many people will want to buy the hardware just so they can run the application?

    If so, I don’t see how thus application qualifies as a killer app. Perhaps a dozen people (world-wide?) would be interested in this?

  7. nicktherat says:

    Oh wow, look at this incredible waste of time! sometimes the art world pisses me off with gimmicky art… but than i get pissed off cause everythings a gimmick… either way, i still think this is a waste of time

  8. Counterweight says:

    This is not a killer app! It’s stop motion animation done poorly.

  9. jobs says:

    I agree it is a big waste of time. But you got to admit it’s a cool concept and somebody spent a lot of time coding.

  10. soundwash says:

    Interesting way to stop animation.

    Though for me..it seems more a demonstration of time and the sample rates different people observe it at.

    nifty.

    -s

    (wonder what the production time per minute of “film” is)

  11. eighthnote says:

    Cool idea, but it will take a lot more than that to overcome my distaste for Steve Jobs’ ego.

  12. admfubar says:

    finally a use for the i pad!

  13. Zybch says:

    What a complete and utter load of unadulterated crap lovingly fused with arrogant inflatable egos.

  14. Awake says:

    Now that is just plain stupid. A use of technology for the sake of using the technology, regardless of how utterly stupid the use.

    Next ‘killer app’: juggling iPads. They could make them show knives or chainsaws or kittens.

  15. Awake says:

    Here is a more interesting video made recently with a Nokia cellphone and a microscope attachment… another use of technology just for technology’s sake, but at least interesting, and you really have to admire the patience that this must have required to make:

  16. KMFIX says:

    nothing easy about this…which makes me wonder why they didn’t do something better if they’re going to spend that much time making something…

  17. Animby - just phoning it in says:

    13 – That’s ridiculous. everyone knows it’s aerodynamically impossible for bumblebees to fly – especially with a passenger!

  18. YAWN says:

    Isn’t that cute.

    Boring “art,” after just 30 seconds.

    Yawn.

  19. pedro's mom says:

    pedro is up in his bedroom right now playing angry birds on his blackberry.

  20. Steve says:

    But guys, it said stuff like “FUTURE” and ” MAGIC”. Don’t you get it ?


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