The winners of the 2008 Prix Ars Electronica - International Competition of Cyberarts have been announced.  Two of the winners really stuck out to me.

Julius von Bismarck’s Fulgurator that can project an image into a photograph with out the photographer’s knowledge.  It is almost an anti-persistence of vision device.  Instead it displays an image so fast the eye does not pick it up but it times the display to coincide with the camera’s flash.

Nuage Vert came up with a project that can turn a cloud into a canvas that can be painted on with lasers.

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I was stubling around neogaf and came across this gem of a forum thread “Limbo of the Lost stole from Oblivion, Morrowind, UT2K4, Diablo, Silent Hill, more?“.  It looks like Limbo of the Lost borrowed (aka stole) art asset from a laundry list of games ranging for Unreal to Oblivion to Diablo.  I have linked to two if the images and you make the call.  Are they similar?  Is that the same picture of a vampiric mayor in the back ground?

I would say it is common pratice to look at your sector of the video game industry for inspiration but this is down right theft (coincidentally one of the games they stole from is named Thief).

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I really need to go to the Tokyo Toy one of these years.  They always have interesting/innovating toys.  Here is an Ultraman statue made of tiny Ultramen.

Here is a link for those that can read Italian (or those that want more pretty pictures).

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