Jan 27 2012

The Love Box is an analog video mixer, house of mirrors for your iPhone (video)

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There’s something romantic about hacking the iPhone, especially when it means finding ways to personalize the massively popular handset. Apps like Instagram may help you realize artistic talent, but software just doesn’t get those creative juices flowing like an old-fashioned piece of hardware can. Despite its taboo-sounding name, The Love Box isn’t an adult toy in the traditional sense, instead serving as an analog video (and stills) mixer for your iPhone 4 or 4S. Consisting of a wooden box and an angled sliding mirror, the homegrown contraption lets you simultaneously capture the action in front of and behind you in a single image. It was originally designed in Barcelona to capture two people conversing for a documentary called “The Love Box Conversations,” hence the name. The “lowest-tech accessory for the highest-tech phone” is available now as part of a very limited initial run of 100 units, and can be yours for €57.63 (about $ 77.50) if you hit up the source link below.

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Jan 19 2012

Love Box Analog Video Mixer For iPhone

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As with any good magic, it’s all done with mirrors

Its name–Love Box–might sound like a male adult toy, but it is in fact a video mixer for the iPhone. It’s not an app, nor is it a complex control board filled with knobs and dials. Instead, its all done with mirrors.

Or mirror. The Love Box, from the Honest&Smile agency in Barcelona, Spain, is a wooden box with a mirror inside, set at an angle. Another slot holds your iPhone 4/S. By finagling the iPhone’s camera into the right spot, you can shoot split-screen video (and stills): the right side shows what’s in front of you and the left side reflects whatever is behind you, and slightly off to one side.

Clearly, it is quite ridiculous and unwieldy, but that kind of problem hasn’t stopped 15 zillion people from using Instagram. On the other hand, Instagram is free, whereas the Love Box is costs close to $ 100 from the Etsy store (or the Regalador store in Spain).

Love Box [Thanks, Ignasi!]

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Jan 15 2012

Samsung Galaxy Note Notepad hands-on at CES: it’s like a Note, but analog

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What if Samsung made a Galaxy Note, but instead of throwing a dual-core processor, a few megabytes (or gigabytes, whatever) of RAM, and random pieces of silicon between the front and rear covers, it included an undetermined amount of paper? What it we lived in a world where that type of activity was not only okay, but encouraged? What if the Note is actually the Notepad in a parallel universe? What if the aforesaid parallel universe is reality in Las Vegas, Nevada? Think about it.

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Nov 22 2011

PC Fan hack lets you scra… scra… scratch analog audio, ah-yeah (video)

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Digital DJ controllers let would-be grandmasters get up to all sorts of fancy new tricks, but if you’re one of those old dogs who can’t be taught, then this PC-fan-come-DJ-turntable might tickle your fancy. Connected to an old-school personal cassette via an Arduino, with a little voltage level smoothing in the mix, moving the fan “scratches” the audio, by controlling the speed of the tape player. The initial plan was to have the fan spinning with the music, like a real turntable, but as you’ll know if you’ve ever caught your finger in one of these things, it’s probably best it didn’t work out. Despite its home-made charms, one final flourish is VU style LEDs for some mixer-style visual feedback. Alas, there’s no built in cross-fader, so don’t start work on that DMC routine just yet.

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Nov 02 2011

Tweephone Sends Tweets from Analog Rotary-Dial Telephone

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Tweephone, the world’s first analog Twitter client

Nobody has ever wished that Twitter’s 140-character limit were even stricter, but then, nobody before had ever tried Tweeting from an old-school rotary-dial phone. Enter Tweephone, a phone that will let you do just that.

Tweephone was made to celebrate the first birthday of the UP Digital Bureau in Russia. It embeds an Arduino and a two-line LCD screen into a vintage Russian telephone. To Tweet, you lift the handset and dial. Letters are selected just like on a pushbutton phone. To type the letter “a” for example, you dial 2 once. To get an “f”, dial 3 three times.

Just stay away from letters at the end of the alphabet or your Tweets will take you forever. You will also realize why I used to hate people with zeros in their numbers when I was younger.

Once you have slowly dialed in your message, you just hang up and the Tweet is sent. You can follow Tweephone on Twitter. And if you do, you’ll be unsurprised to discover that all of its Tweets are very, very short. In fact, the longest on on the first page is just 40 characters.

If nothing else, this project makes me appreciate my horrible cellphone all over again.

Tweephone [Untreleported]

How Tweephone was built [Habrahabr]

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