This is TAT's Open Innovation Experiment on exactly where screen technology will be in just a few years time and this video was to showcase the research and user feedback from the experiment. I'm not sure how realistically all this will happen over the next few years but it will be awesome if this device become reality. The video showcase multi-screen, mirror screens, expendables screen, e-ink screens, transparent screens... you name it and its a screen of the future.

THE INKLESS METAL PEN

Inkless metal pen are one way of cutting down on buying new pens and pencils all of the time. This cool little pen has absolutely no ink and will last for a lifetime.

The Inkless Metal Pen features a special metal alloy tip. As you write, tiny amounts of this metal are deposited onto the page. The silvery markings may resemble pencil, but they are permanent and smudge-proof. The tip will write on both regular paper and glossy paper.

I'll leave you guys with this humorous advertisement video of this product.

BUKIT CAHAYA SERI ALAM

Bukit Cahaya Agriculture Park (Taman Pertanian Bukit Cahaya) is the only agro-forestry park around, which is quite unique. Located in Shah Alam, Malaysia's first agriculture park was opened to the public since 1986. Inside here, you will be able to visit a few attraction spots, by taking the free bus transportation service provided to travel around the park.

I love the environment here, it was a forest reserve park in a city and plenty of activities available here like Cycling, Jogging, Flying Fox, Paintball and also tourist spot like Four season house, mushroom farm, Animals Garden & etc.

Entrance fees only RM3 for adults and RM1 for kids below 12 years old. My main intention coming here was to cycle around the park. With the bicycle-renting service provided here, it is good for me as I would not need to bring my own. Rental of mountain bike is RM3 for 1st hour and RM1 for following hour. Pretty cheap and healthy activity for weekend.

Cycling around the park

Animal Garden

Four Season House

THE HEIGHT OF TERROR

Takabisha Roller Coaster

The Takabisha roller coaster at Japan’s Fuji-Q Highland amusement park is the world’s steepest steel roller coaster. The thrilling new ride, located at the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park in Yamanash, Japan,  opened to the public on July 16. Takabisha grab the title of 'ride with the steepest incline' from a British attraction, Mumbo Jumbo at Flamingoland in the UK.

The ride lasts for just 112 seconds but is packed with jaw-dropping features including seven twists, blackened tunnels and a 43 metre high peak. But the most impressive thing about Takabisha is the freefall at 121 degrees, and the top speed of 100 km/h.

This video shows what it's like to ride it. Whoever filmed this video must be crazy. He/she didn't scream at all.

SINGAPORE TRIP

We started our journey at KL Sentral. Our train depart at 11.30 pm. It was a very comfortable journey on the train because our seat type is bed. I fall asleep almost immediately when the train departed. I woke up 6 hours later, and the train almost reach Singapore.

Art & Science Museum

We arrived at Singapore around 7am. Next destination - ArtScience Museum. The gallery

consist of Dalí: Mind of a Genius – The Exhibition, Van Gogh Alive - The Exhibition,

and Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds. I love the way they presented the

artwork. There's a video screening, interactive screen that we can interact on, and

most of the information been projected to the wall. There were also quotes from well

known artist on the wall along the way to the gallery.

Art and Science Museum

"Enter The Mind Of a Genius" - Entrance to Dali: mind of a genius exhibition

Van Gogh Alive - The Exhibition was my favourite of the 3 gallery. They presented the

artwork in very unique way: projected it on the wall and the floor. The audience can

saw the artwork in 360 degree. There are background music played at the same time that really made the gallery alive.

Inside the "Van Gogh Alive" exhibition

We got the opportunity to enjoy the view of Singapore from the top of Marina Bay Hotel.

It was a good experience. Too bad that the weather at the time was extremely hot. Im

sure the view was beautiful if we got there at night.

Lion King The Musical

One word: Spectacular. Thats one word that describe the musical. The musical was very

good in almost every aspect: the costume, props, cast, acting, dance chereograph, and

whats impressed me was the voice of the cast, was really similar to the original voice

that we heard from the movie. The acting was amazing, so with the music and vocal from

the cast. The puppetry itself was inspiring as it perfectly mimicked the way animals

moved.

It was a really good performance by the dancers and interesting use of props. Watching

this musical really brings back my childhood memory when i was first watch the movie.

Until today, lion king was still one of my favourite animation of all-time. Lion King

The Musical - I loved every bit of it.

Universal Studio

Our last and final destination on this Singapore trip: Universal Studio. It was raining

heavily when we first got there. Thankfully the rain stopped several minutes later. I

started off at Sci-Fi City with several friends. We first went to  'Lights! Camera!

Action! hosted by Steven Spielberg". its a special effects show taking place in a

stunning hurricane-over-New York setting. I rated this "ride" 8 out of 10.

Sci-Fi City

Next we get on Battlestar Galactica ride.There are 2 track on this ride - Battlestar

Galactica CYLON (blue track) and the red track is for Battlestar Galactica HUMAN. We

first ride the CYCLON track, the hanging roller coaster. It was the most thrilling roller coaster i've ever ride. There's a video been playing on the TV monitor in the area where people queue and waiting for their turn. The video was basically about why we get on this ride. So there's a story behind the ride. We played a role of a character that need to get to some place with this ride.

We didn't get the oppurtunity to ride the HUMAN track because there some technical problem occured. The announcement said that they don't know how much time that they need to overcome that problem. So we decided to went to another ride to avoid wasting our time.

Battlestar Galactica Cyclon

We step into the golden era of ancient Egypt, with huge Egyptian statues looming over

us.The environment was pretty good. You can totally felt that you are really in Egypt.

Theres a people dressed up in ancient Egypt costume, where people can take a picture

together with them. Main attraction at Ancient Egypt was The Revenge of the Mummy. Its

a high speed thrill ride through sharp bends and sudden reverse in the darkness.There's not too many people waiting to ride this thing. We get on the ride almost immediately when we arrived at the queue area (after a long walk).

Egyptian Statue

Then we went to The Lost World. We went to Jurassic Park ride. This is the only ride

that I dissapointed of. We waiting for almost 2 hours in queue area. I felt that I just wasted my 2 hours of my time at Universal Studio waiting to experienced the ride. I guess the reason why so many people waiting at Jurassic Park was because this not an extremely thrilling ride. So its suitable for kids. Since there's many visitors bring along their kids, no wonder that so many people queue up for this ride. The good thing was I didn't get wet at all.

Far Far Away: Shrek 4-D adventure was an amazing experience. Experiencing something new was always fun. I thought I got a good seat in the theater since they said that 1st 5 row was the best seat to experience the 3D effects. Then, the scene where Shrek ride the horses started. I watched my front row seat shaking heavily, but my seat didn't. I was really dissapointed by that, since I cant feel the experience of riding the horse.

But other than that, it was all good. I rated it 9 out of 10. It would be 10 out of 10 if my seat was working properly.

Shrek 4D adventure entrance

Thats the end of our Singapore Trip. We went back To KL at the night. Overall, it was a

bit tiring, but it was fun. I'm surely will visit Singapore again next time!

Exploring Second Life #5 LIGHT & GRAVITY

This time around i went to a place called Light and Gravity. It's an artist exhibition which features a unique layout of colorful and transparent building blocks. The design of the place was really interesting. It's a combination of art and color that combined really well. With some lighting effects, its really a wonderful environment. We travel around by hovering in the air, with some weird pose. It looks like we were riding a motorcycle.

Weird pose

To go to artist gallery  we have to click at the boxes to teleport to the artist gallery. Each boxes bring us to different places. I clicked on one of the boxes called Maya Paris, and it bring me to some place at 2nd level. This place only have a ball, cone, and a signboard. So i was thinking, where's the artwork? So i walk to the signboard and click on it. Some windows popup and it shows a video of the artwork by Maya Paris.

The only things in the gallery

I look up and saw some weird looking torn hanging in the air. So i click on it and a fireworks comes out from it. The fireworks looks similar with the one that played on the video before. Its one of the artist installation that displayed in this gallery.

Fireworks

Overall, this is the most beautiful place I've ever been in Second Life. The color, effects, artwork and installation works perfectly fine for me. The way the presented also was very good

Exploring Second Life #4 London City

Next destination - London City.

I've never been to London, so i don't know if this place looks like London of nowhere near of it. One thing that convince me that this is London is the Britain flag that hanging all around the place.

Britain flag on the walk way

A lot of shop in this city. The first few minutes all i saw was shop. Along the road there was nothing except shop. This is totally look like place that got attention from shopaholics. I saw one car, and i decided to drive that car while look around the city ( since this place is quite big).

Shops all around the place

Me travel by car

This place is basically surrounded by sea. You can sit at bar or cafe and have a chat with peoples around you. There's nothing really special about this place. Its just like any other city in the world, with road and building all along the way. I guess this is London looks like. My advice, if you want to explore London City, fly around. If you walk, it took forever because this is a big place. Another option is drive a car or a motorcycle that can be found in the city.

Exploring Second Life #3 AeonFlux

The concept of this place is Sci-Fi. The moment i arrived at this place, i immediately felt the sci-fi vibe. the texture on this place was well made. the song played on the background added to the sci-fi vibe. The room was well made, but i was bored in there. There's nothing you can clicked on, touch, or feel. I'm basically just walk around, and look around the room ( good thing it was beautifully made).

Sci-Fi room

I went out from the room. The environment at the outside was also beautifully made. It stick to the sci-fi concept. There's a rocket, building all around the place, some tree, light on the floor, and a hanging tile floor where you can walk on. I miss step one of the floor and fall down. If in real life i fall down from the same height, i'm surely will be dead now. 

Exploring Second Life #2 Risk City

The name caught my attention. I entered this place to explore and experience the 'risk' i'll be facing in this place. I started off at some place, where in front of me there was a button with caption 'explore the risk'. when i click it, it takes me some another place, some kind of room.

Transferred to another room

I walk further ahead and i saw another buttons that similar to one i found earlier. this time around, there were plenty of them, around 30. and on top of the button there were a name of the place that we will go when we clicked on them. If i'm decided to tried each of them, it maybe takes hours and hours to finished them. So i choose one of it, and the place called 'Dream'.

Plenty of button

When i click the button, I'm transferred to another room. There nothing in it. Just an empty room with some painting on the wall and the floor. The painting on the floor was a leaves, a big leaves, and on the wall was a girl painting, and it reflected on the floor as well. So i'm guessing the painting is my dream right now.

'Dream' room

I went back to the main room, called the store, and i tried another button. i tired almost all of it. and each of the button transferred me to a same sized room, but with a different environment. The painting on each room was different, and the song also change. All of this room was quite interesting. Each room gives different mood and feeling. I went back to the place where i started this 'Risk City' and walk around. The place looks like some fantasy desert, with weird looking statue all around the place. 

My last thought about this place was - 'Risk City' doesn't risky at all!

Exploring Second Life #1 Help People Island

I dont know why this place named 'Help People Island'. This place looks like some kind of beach island where people comes to chill and free their mind. First thing i realize when i came to this place is this place got a lot of people. The moment i get to this place, 5 peoples was in front me, and a lot more when i walk around.

People stand around

This place was quite interesting. u can sit around, lay around, sunbathing, and a lot more. its exactly a place that got tourist attraction. there's a birds chipping sound, sea, and very quite too. its really calm to be in here. There's one place where u can fishing in front of a big waterfall. You can entered the fish tournament and win some prizes.

I'm laying around while listening to bird chipping sound.

Fishing in front of a waterfall

This is totally a relaxing place. If u feels boring just to sit and lay around, there's a lot of  others activity that you can do. You can do fishing, there's a place where a music is playing and you can dance around, campfire and a lot more.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark Of the Moon 3D

To be honest, I’m not expecting anything from Transformers: Dark of the Moon other than the action and the visual effects. I know the plot or the storyline will not blow viewers mind like Inception or The Dark Night, so I’m expecting an action packed movie with amazing CGI effects. And what Michael Bay gave is exactly what I wanted from this movie.

Overall, this film was pretty good. At least better than the last one. The 3D effect also was pretty cool. There was a time when the 3D effects really impressed me (scene where people jump from the plane).  But most of the time I felt that the visual was pretty dark (because of the 3D glass), so I can’t enjoy the graphic to the max. Although Dark of the Moon will not be the greatest movie of all time, but I can say I enjoyed watching this film.  

Crysis 2

I haven't played video games in quite some time. This is basically the first video game I've played this trimester (since I've been busy with assignment and stuff). I just finished the game few days ago, and one thing for sure is this games has the best graphics I've ever seen.

Throughout the game, i was amaze by the detailed graphics. Crytek (developers) presents

to the player a beautifully realized New York City. From the subway tunnels to the tallest high-rises building, but at the same time, the alien invasion has destroyed enough of the city to make it unfamiliar and uncomfortable.

Another things that made crysis 2 so fun besides amazing graphics is the Nanosuit. Your suit's AI identifies strategic points of interest if you choose, allowing you to mark tactical points or elements, like weapon caches and enemy locations. After that, it's up to you, Will you crank up your armor, Or will you sneak in to flank an enemy position, silently murdering your enemy.

Here's some screenshot of the game

Alienware M18X

Latest gaming laptop from DELL.
If you are looking for a large laptop and money is not really an option, this is the way to go.

Alienware M18X uses Intel Corei7 Extreme CPUs equipped with dual-graphics. With 18 inches screen, this is a prefect laptop for gamers out there. Dell claims "Alienware M18X is the most powerful 18-inch laptop in the universe", and see not many 18-inches size laptop available in the market, they may be right. Too bad it haven't been release yet in Malaysia. Well, I'm sure if I decide to get one of this, its gonna leave my wallet light.

For more information: http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-m18x/pd.aspx

3D projection

3D projection is any method of mapping three-dimensional points to a two-dimensional plane. As most current methods for displaying graphical data are based on planar two-dimensional media, the use of this type of projection is widespread, especially in computer graphics, engineering and drafting. - Wikipedia

555 KUBIK
"How it would be, if a house was dreaming"

The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers "Galerie der Gegenwart". Resultant permeabilty of the solid facade uncovers different interpretations of conception. A situation of reflexivity evolves - describing the constitution and spacious perception of this location by means of the building itself.

The visual pattern 555 Kubik is an expression of geometry through graphics and movement. This particular street projection is a perfect example of how motion graphics projected onto cityscapes can be powerful and engaging. By using motion graphics techniques, they have managed to bring the building to life! I only wished that I could have seen this one in person.

Student Information

Name: Muhammad Hafiz Bin Mat Din
ID:1081106553