iphone 4: LED

Throughout our testing, researching and experimenting with light sources we always seem to come back to using Apples iphone4 flash light. The results using this LED flash light which can be set to have a constant beam gives us the brightest of results and an incredible amount of depth and detail of our reflection of what we like to calla parabolic star.

We have decided that we could not use the iphone itself in our artwork as it is of a large clumpy size, so we have now set out to research the type of LED the iphone uses as a single LED suspended in our artwork would look a lot more subtle.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

iphone app: 04.11.10

Week 4: Lighter: 19.10.10

In addition to functioning as a statistically-skewed polling device, Sonic Lighter is a lighter:
- Strike the flints to ignite your phone.
- Blow out the flame with your breath.
- Pinch the flame to change its size.
- Wave your finger across it and see how the flame reacts.
- Tilt the flame sideways to fry the side of your phone.

Yet Sonic Lighter is more than a lighter:
- Hold the valve to create a blowtorch flame.
- Ignite other phones by using the blowtorch flame.
- Tap the globe to see ignitions across the world.
- Customize your flame color to express your views in global opinion polls.

www.smule.com/soniclighter

week 4: Ocarina: 19.10.10

The Smule Ocarina is a wind instrument designed for the iPhone, fully leveraging its wide array of technologies: microphone input (for breath input), multitouch (for fingering), accelerometer, real-time sound synthesis, high- performance graphics, GPS/location, and persistent data connection. In this mobile musical artifact, the interactions of the ancient flute-like instrument are both preserved and transformed via breath-control and multitouch finger-holes, while the onboard global positioning and persistent data connection provide the opportunity to create a new social experience, allowing the users of Ocarina to listen to one another. In this way, Ocarina is also a type of social instrument that enables a different, perhaps even magical, sense of global connectivity.


http://smule-web.s3.amazonaws.com/ocarina/ocarina-nime2009.pdf