what did we search

does anyone remember my post from may 23rd "what did we invent"?

well it's reality.



TinEye is a reverse image search engine launched early this year and apparently very successful at what it does. you upload an image or plug in the image location and tineye attempts to find it wherever it exists on the interweb. it searches for the specific image uploaded and not the content in the image (which i still dream of happening one day) and their database is still quite small in comparison to the vastness of the internet's contents. but it works! (unfortunately the images i pick to search for must be far too obscure still...wish i could figure out the credits for these images...)

check out this blog post by idee (the company that created tineye) demonstrating the catching of some blatant lying regarding photo credits. this is tineye's explanatory page on the idee website.



"TinEye is like speculative fiction, that is, it meets Clarke's Third Law. 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'" - David Crow

what did we invent

two inventions i've recently decided the future should have:

1. a holographic furniture catalog.
a digital version of the thick paper edition IKEA has where the consumer / customer / potential furniture buyer can flip through (or scroll through on a digital screen!) and when they see something they kind of like they can conjure it up into a hologram of sorts - a 3d projection in real life that's not actually tangible - and really SEE it in the place they want it to be.

this eliminates guesswork in measurement and trying to see how certain pieces of furniture will look like next to each other. it also helps the consumer really understand the space they have to work within and the potentiality of various things they're not sure whether or not they really want.

2. image search engine.
i have images that i have no accreditation to them and i really want to be able to recognize and research more about the people that took / drew / designed those things. also, wouldn't it be great if you had an image of something that you had absolutely no information about and were able to be able to search that instead of needing some sort of title or weird description like "round yellow striped stone medallion red gem cyclops blah blah"

suddenly you'd be able to just take a photo of the thing you wanted to know more about, upload it and then search it in your handy image search engine! where instead of text - you have pictures. (c'mon google - pick up on this)

i honestly think these two inventions are brilliant. now for the technology.

out of love for the random

www.notcot.org
fun design random things site for those truly bored.
above image is the "invisible" shirt by reece ward - photoshop reference : )
LINK INVISIBLE

more random things someone made? (also courtesy of notcot surfing)
crayon rings - set of 8 in these colors by timothy liles
they actually work though i'd be sad to use them...
perfect ring for messy artists?
completely appropriate for restaurants that have paper coverings on them to draw on.
LINK CRAYON RINGS