I was going to call this post 'Global Hypercolour 2000' but then wondered if anyone would actually know what I was on about. Does anyone remember them? Very cool. Then. Anyway, Lacoste is going to make this magic polo.
JR Schmidt used Processing to create these beautiful posters. "I used Processing to generate these images. The script I wrote generates gravity fields based on user input and then spawns particles that draw and change color as they move across the canvas."
A French supermarket tested this recently. Instead of paying with a card, you pay with a fingerprint. Well, information is exchanged between the fingerprint reader and the credit card - which you still have to have on you, less then two metres away. "The customer's biometric print is stored in the chip of the credit card and information is directly sent to the fingerprint reader without passing through a centralized biometric database. This ensures the customer's privacy and makes the system theft proof, according to Natural Security, the company behind the idea." Interesting.
