I really liked ReBirth from Propellerheads back in the 90ies. However, I have not heard much of ReBirth (and of the good old Roland 303 and its companions) since then. Now, ReBirth is back on the iPad (although there is also an iPhone/iPod Touch version of it only the iPad version seems just right) and it feels just like a flashback to the old times. Astonishingly, the sound of ReBirth is still fresh.

Anyway, I really like the way in which the video aboce outlines the functionality or the rather complicated synthesizer touch GUI.

ofxKinect 3D draw 001 from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

Memo Akten on Microsoft Kinect and the opportunities for interaction artists. Check out Theo Watson’s OpenFrameworks Kinect integration ofxKinect.
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Only a few hours after the release of Microsoft Kinect libfreenect – an Open Source Driver for the Kinect device for Linux – has been released by Hector Martin (via creativeapplications and memo.tv). Shortly afterwards, the driver has also been ported to Windows and OS X. Check it out in the libfreenect git repository.
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I am going to present a few projects on my blog which I like. This post introduces the Umami project of Florian Cannon, Robert Fläck, Florian Gondolf, Mischa Korn, Daniel Pehnec, Sarah Martens, Tara Staton from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. umami proposes the the integration of multi-touch surfaces in kitchens of the future for the support of cooking.

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This is not my project.
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Fancy: Special drinking glasses, which allow to recognize the amount of fluid in the glasses.