Author: Ty Dunitz

Ty is an illustrator who stays up too late, and has to wear glasses. You can follow him on Twitter if you want to (@glitchritual), but he's just gonna throw your stupid PR crap in the garbage, so don't email him.

Facebook gets literal

Jul 2 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Word on the tubes is that Facebook is about to drop live, in-browser video chat next week. According to Zuck, Facebook will be unveiling an as-of-yet-secret, “awesome” product to the press at the Seattle office on July 6th. And according to those in the know, it’s more than likely Skype-powered in-browser more »

GPS tech turns on a light for the blind

Jun 29 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

The visually impaired don’t get a lot of help when it comes to next-gen tech to help them better live autonomous lives. For generations, the most cutting-edge apparatus has been an extendable stick. Whee. But designer Xun Ye is turning all that negligence on its ear with the Origin GPS, the first truly more »

Valve + Nintendo = Gaming heaven?

Jun 25 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Valve and Nintendo have sort of been gaming chalk and cheese in the past – but that may not be so forever! Valve co-founder Gabe Newell has whispered what is perhaps the sweetest nothing into Joystiq‘s ear regarding a possible harmonious future on Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U. “We’ve always loved Nintendo,” more »

Foursquare hits the big one-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Jun 21 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Your service is probably pretty fly if you’ve hit ten million users, and Foursquare as of Monday has become such a service. Foursquare, in case you’re dead, is the darling of the location-based social networking party, and has hither and yon become a great service for both consumers and businesses more »

Maybe Jobs was right when he used the term 'magic' after all...

Jun 17 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Magician Marco Tempest has coined possibly the coolest term you’re gonna hear all week: technoillusionist. What is a technoillusionist? Why, a magician aided by technology, of course – in this case, a whole stack of iPods. You may argue that ‘magic’ performed via ipods is not really magic at all, more »

Kinect

Jun 13 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

The designers at Loft117 and programmer Jason Belmonti have teamed up to tap the Kinect for something that has been suspiciously absent from its ever-growing palette of applications: advertising. Behold the slick, stylish, and interactive ad potential exhibited in this installation, and more »

Where 'toy' ends, and 'badass' begins

Jun 10 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

Add to your personal list of things that don’t need to exist (everyone keeps one of those, right?) this remote-controlled car, which has the singular distinction of being the world’s fastest. Nic Case designed the Schumacher Mi3 with one purpose in mind: to break the world record for fastest toy car – and more »

Driving to a different tune with Soundtracks

Jun 6 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

Are you about ready to throw your car stereo in the trash? You’re about to be. Students Robbin Ingvarsson and Waldemar Wegelin have designed what they hope to be the next revolution in in-car audio – and from the looks of things, they’ve pretty much got it in the bag. Soundtracks is a system that takes input from more »

Twitter hops into bed with iOS 5 for some 'deep integration'

Jun 3 by Ty Dunitz | 2 comments

Monday is going to be an interesting day, to say the least. Rumours surrounding WWDC ’11 concern all sorts of neat stuff, including but not limited to what the final build of Lion has in store, iCloud, and more. But this is a cool little tidbit, especially if you’re a Twitter freak. According to Rob more »

Photography past meets present - best iPhone accessory ever?

May 30 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

It doesn’t get more awesome than this. It does not get more awesome than this. I don’t think anyone can argue that the iPhone already takes pretty swell pictures, as far as phones are concerned – but this is something new entirely. Black Design Associates have dreamed up this inarguably awesome iPhone/Leica i9 combo that more »

Location-based album launches musical elitism to new heights

May 27 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Do you exist? Do you like music? If you answered yes to both questions, you’ll likely find this pretty neat. Bluebrain, a band based out of Washington DC, have just released a new album – but not as a disc, or even as an iTunes download. The album is a location-aware app that tracks you via GPS and causes the more »

Interaction design taken way, way, way too far

May 23 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

I’m not trying to say the folks at the Hasso-Plattner Institute are crazy, but guys: the folks at the Hasso-Plattner Institute are crazy. Introducing the Imaginary Phone – an exercise in how to take interaction design to its (il)logical conclusion. Using a large depth camera mounted on an arm, the system can read more »

Infographic of Microsoft's vast legacy of acquisition

May 20 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Courtesy of information designer Robin Richards, check this out: a visual map of all 264 companies Microsoft has acquired in its endless quest to dominate the market. Of course, Microsoft hasn’t always played by the rules of acquisition (not to be confused with the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition), but whatever – considering more »

Lego Super-8 camera only further proof that Lego really can solve every problem

May 16 by Ty Dunitz | 2 comments

I dream of a world wherein we’ve built everything out of Lego, simply because we can. A post-apocalyptic future after which we’ve rebuilt humanity from the ground up with naught but our wits and Lego. I have yet to see a task that can’t be handled with a few cogs of Lego Technic and a pair of capable hands, more »