We here at Cycloptopus want to wish you a safe and fun Halloween. And remember, trick or treat doesn’t have to mean sick or hurt!

I saw this video today on Boing Boing and it is really amazing. It was cut entirely with webcam footage. At first I thought it was going to just be a bunch of random people just singing or dancing, but the level of interaction is so incredibly impressive. I love it.

A few days ago we found ourselves at a Lego Store and stumbled across one of their augmented reality kiosks. The premise is simple and awesome: hold up a box in front of a camera and a 3-D representation of the fully assembled model is projected on top of it. You can rotate the box and the model moves with it.

Despite getting the stink eye from one of the employees, we managed to take a video of the kiosk in action:

As you can see in the video, the camera tracks the box really, really well. Unfortunately, the setup was limited to a handful of Lego kits—I would have loved to have seen some of the Star Wars sets in action. Nevertheless, I haven’t been so excited about ‘futuristic’ technology since the unveiling of the iPhone. I, for one, welcome our new augmented reality overlords.

Ze Frank posted a link to this ‘VideoSong’ on Twitter. The band is called Pomplamoose (‘grapefruit’ in French) and they are brilliant. The concept of a ‘VideoSong’ is pretty interesting too, there are two rules: (1) What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice) and (2) If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).

I picked up the album on iTunes but they offer some of their songs for free.

They are my official musical recommendation today, September 26, 2009.

I wish Google Street View actually worked this way.