One of the fun session at Poptech2010 was OK GO playing Return with Hand Bells.  Watch it above.

I’m off to PopTech 2010 for the rest of the week where the theme is “BRILLIANT ACCIDENTS, NECESSARY FAILURES, AND IMPROBABLE BREAKTHROUGHS”. As usual, poptech will be live streaming all of the talks online for free here! Watch the feed, follow some of my tweets, or let me know if your at PopTech and want to meetup!

A good friend of mine James Patten (MIT Medialab alumn) was visiting this week and showed me a new project of his, or at least it was new to me.  He took a bunch of translucent lcd films, tiled them, and made one huge transparent screen which can make the grid  translucent, black, or even gray tones for some pretty sweet effects. Watch the video above and watch out for the final project via his website pattenstudio.com.

“A prototype transparent LCD screen for an upcoming installation. 16×16 = 256 tiles. Eventual installation will be roughly 6000 tiles and 150′ in length. Project details private at the moment.”

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If you didn’t get a chance to buy a ticket to the sold-out Feast Conference in nyc happening today, your in luck cause they are live streaming the whole thing 9am-5pm for free.

I’ll have to top this Super Hero under shirts idea somehow.  Congrats Erin and Tim whom I dont know on this great shot!

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Want a poster with all your facebook friends profiles! Hang it on a wall, maybe make a coffee table, have then sign it when they see their square, or play where’s that friend all night. $20, huge poster, pretty sweet deal! Make it at PrintingFacebook.com.  I want!

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First came dancing down the wedding aisle, and now comes dancing down the airline aisle giving instructions. Along with some rapping on the intercom on an airline, our service world is becoming a musical. Imagine an airline ride being as entertaining as a Broadway show.  I love it!

All those video after the jump!

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I just returned from a screening of the documentary film “Waiting for Superman” and had to post it to let everyone know to watch this film! It’ll leave you cringing, a bit bitter, and a craving for our education system to change! The documentary is directed and filmed by Academy Award Winner Davis Guggenheim (Inconvenient Truth). Even Obama recently watched it and reacted to it.

Watch the trailer above or here, then visit their website to help out. They have a few extra video interviews on their site as well. Please share!

Oh woa! how awesome. A printer that makes shapes, slices them, then they float up into the sky. A floating foam printer I guess (I’m thinking theres a bit of Helium inside the foam). Anyhow, what a great little invention. I want I want!

Ikea just launched a pretty awesome 30 page cookbook with photographer Carl Kleiner composing some beautiful shots of the ingredients…. and if I read right, I hear these books are free in the kitchen department in limited quantities!!!!! ya!!! Amazing work!
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Pictures by Carl Kleiner after the jump!

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Something about these simple ceramic pebble like stacked salt +pepper shakers caught my attention, along with a hidden dipping sauce tray underneath. Made me smile.
Get your set for for $32 at gessato.

Take a digital screen like the iPad, write some code to have it display an image based on it’s position, then shot a long exposure image or video to make for some fun stop-action light animation.  Learn more about the project from creators at BergLondon.

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