Social engineering
In this video (in french only), see how chatting on social networking tool can be not so harmless… One should always bear that in mind when publishing content about himself on the internet.
This is something like that (even more simple) that has been used by this year Twitter hacker, proving that you don’t need to be some kind or geek tech-savvy guy to become a hacker.
[Via Gregory Pouy]
3d in 3d immersion technology
I was really impressed by the “Monsters vs Aliens” 3D projection. I remember when I was young my first 3D experiences with red and blue 3d glasses, when it was even difficult just to see the film. Now, this is a completely new experience, and I loved it.
So, I can try to imagine what this man see, with such a technology but projected on the whole room (in fact, 3 walls and the floor).
In fact, this video is very frustrating, because from the outside, we only see a $600.000 worth projection system showing blurred images. But I’m sure, seeing the behavior of the guy, that it must be mind-blowing.
I’ll keep connected with IDEO Labs to know when I’ll be able to give it a try 
[via Fubiz]
Gravity, interactive installation
Gravity is a collaborative application using buildings’ architecture as a projection surface.
This real time interactive animation allows people to send sms text messages to the installation. The words are then embedded into geometric shapes, and are dropped from the top of the projection. The fall as well as their collisions with the building’s environment are physics-driven, making interactions happen between the different sent messages.
The words are stacking, accumulating, rotating thus creating a structural and spatial “cadavre exquis” both related to the building architecture and the projection. Bystanders become actors of the installation itself, and are playing a role by customizing their messages with punctuations, long words or simply by answering other people’s messages.
This video was shot on March 17th, 2009 as part of the E.motion electronic festival in Bordeaux. The show took place onto the Utopia movie theater’s facade, on a popular square in the city center. During the rough 3 hours that lasted the projection, 1017 messages were sent onto the wall by the audience who participated enthusiastically.
Gravity has been coded by Julien Gachadoat from 2roqs studio. The sound is from Splank Studio.
Air Traffic Worldwide
This amazing (and a little frightening !) video simulates the worldwide air traffic all over the world during 24 hours.
On the website of ZHAW (School of engineering in Switzerland) which has done this great video, you can download a high definition version of the movie. You can also follow the air traffic over Switzerland in real time.
92 stories in 2 minutes
It took 4 years to build the 92 stories of the Trump Tower in Chicago.
1.460 days, 35.040 hours, 2.102.400 minutes…
Let’s speed up the time about one million times, to wrap up the complete building process in less than 2 minutes.
Urban mobs
This video is a modeling of mobile phones moves in the city of Paris during the 2008 Music Day.
The more red = the more mobile phones are moving.
More informations and other videos of the same kind on urbanmobs.fr
Yves “Fusion Man” Rossy crossed the channel
On Friday September 26th 2008, Yves Rossy, a swiss pilot and modern adventurer born in 1959, became the first man to fly across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover, using a homemade single jet-powered wing.
He reached the UK within 13 minutes, covering a 35 kilometres trip at an average speed of 200 kilometres per hour.
Watch the best of this historical flight, which was broadcasted live on National Geographic, and find out more videos on his official Youtube channel.