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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) - The $75 Future Computer

2010-04-17T13:51:00.003+01:00

The MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte project which aim to create the cheapest educational laptop.

5 IBM previsions for the next 5 years

2010-04-17T13:49:00.001+01:00

IKEA viral campaign using Facebook

2009-12-25T21:55:00.002Z

IKEA offered products to people who tagged pictures of products from their Facebook page.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations Exhibition, V&A until 11 April 2010

2009-12-14T13:04:00.001Z

V&A Decode generative identity from postspectacular on Vimeo.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions created especially for the exhibition.

The exhibition explores three themes: Code presents pieces that use computer code to create new works and looks at how code can be programmed to create constantly fluid and ever-changing works. Interactivity looks at works that are directly influenced by the viewer. Visitors will be invited to interact with and contribute to the development of the exhibits. Network focuses on works that comment on and utilise the digital traces left behind by everyday communications and looks at how advanced technologies and the internet have enabled new types of social interaction and mediums of self-expression.

Did you know?

2009-11-16T13:02:00.001Z

Source: ESAD-DigitalMedia

Kids on DSP - Augmented reality iPhone music application

2009-10-13T01:00:00.003+01:00

London based Kids on DSP worked closely with artists Carl Craig and Acid Pauli. The application features 8 scenes which all play in the reactive minimal techno domain with a twist on microphone input. The acoustic surrounding of the listener is seamless integrated with minimal techno beats in realtime. The Kids really take mixing and sampling culture into the augmented reality dimension.

Choose the Piano stairs!

2009-10-12T19:05:00.002+01:00

Rolighetsteorin developed the Piano Stairs: "We believe that the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory."

I Want You To Want Me by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

2009-08-29T12:46:00.000+01:00

The interactive installation "I Want You To Want Me", by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, for their "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition. I Want You To...

NearInteraction at the London College of Fashion Graduate Exhibition 2009

2009-08-04T22:18:00.001+01:00

NearInteraction at the London College of Fashion Graduate Exhibition 2009 from nearinteraction on Vimeo.

The London College of Fashion Graduate Exhibition 2009 displays six multi-touch tables with integrated object recognition to unveil the 570 student portfolios. From a wide choice displayed on the three walls, visitors can make a selection of their preferred cards. Activating once a card is placed on the tables, visitors can move, zoom and rotate by touching the surface of the table a variety of portfolio images representing the chosen student.

London College of Fashion Graduate Exhibition 2009 was designed and produced by NearInteraction in association with Paul Albert and John Nussey.

Swine Flu iPhone application

2009-08-04T22:06:00.004+01:00

IntuApps released a new iPhone app that has data on the Swine Flu outbreak.

Physical computing

2009-07-20T17:21:00.000+01:00

Nearest Tube Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS by Acrossair

2009-07-08T12:23:00.006+01:00

Nearest Tube developed by Acrossair is one of the first augmented reality apps to go live in the iPhone AppStore. This amazing new application tells Londoners where their nearest tube station is via their iPhones video function.

When you load the app, holding it flat, all 13 lines of the London underground are displayed in coloured arrows. By tilting the phone upwards, you will see the nearest stations: what direction they are in relation to your location, how many kilometres and miles away they are and what tube lines they are on. If you continue to tilt the phone upwards, you will see stations further away, as stacked icons. Only available to Apple iPhone 3GS users.

AR on an iPhone 3G

2009-07-06T00:05:00.003+01:00

Some very early results with Augmented Reality (AR) on an iPhone 3G. Doesn’t use tags and is interactive! Developed by post-doctoral student Georg Klein

Winner of Tropfest NY 2008

2009-07-01T11:41:00.001+01:00

A short film entirely shot by mobile phone on the streets of NY and Sydney.

Layar - first mobile augmented reality browser

2009-06-30T19:40:00.001+01:00

Layar developed by Sprxmobile, combines GPS, camera, and compass to identify your surroundings and overlay information on screen, in real time. It is available for Android now and it will be available for iPhone soon, but exclusively for the 3GS. The reason is that Layar needs a compass to work.

Walking in My Mind exhibition - Hayward Gallery (London) until 6 Sept 09

2009-06-27T15:17:00.005+01:00

Walking in My Mind explores the inner workings of the artist's imagination through immersive, large-scale installation art. Ten international artists transform the Hayward Gallery's indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture terraces into a series of gigantic sculptural environments, each of which represents an individual mindscape. Interior worlds of emotions, thoughts, memories and dreams collide with exterior reality, blurring the boundaries between inner and outer space.

Artists include: Charles Avery, Thomas Hirschhorn, Yayoi Kusama, Bo Christian Larsson, Mark Manders, Yoshitomo Nara, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Chiharu Shiota and Keith Tyson.

Tangible Multi-touch Connectivity by NearInteraction

2009-06-08T14:29:00.002+01:00

Tangible Multi-touch Connectivity from nearinteraction on Vimeo.

As part of Future Labs - Visual Experiences of the Future at FPC, Tangible Multi-touch Connectivity developed by NearInteraction explores the multi-touch gestural concepts of touch to activate, pinch to enlarge and scroll to select within a multi-user environment, combined with the interaction concepts of user-identity, networks, and behavioural lifespan through a metaphorical game.

Augmented Reality in Doritos Sweet Chili Lover package, Brazil

2009-04-09T18:46:00.007+01:00

CUBOCC created augmented reality solution for the Doritos package, a special edition called Sweet Chili. Each package has a AR symbol which is activated in the web site of the brand.

Yellow Arrow, developed by Counts Media, 2004

2009-03-31T21:59:00.002+01:00

The Yellow Arrow (2004) is a global project of public art dedicated to the sharing of local experiences. The initiative began in 2004, in Manhattan, and today has already actions in more than 35 countries and 380 cities around the world. Combining stickers, mobile phones and the interaction of international community, the project transforms urban landscapes into maps revealing personal stories associated to spaces of our everyday life.

Mapping and Tracing

2009-03-31T21:41:00.007+01:00

At the 2006 Venice Biennial, the project Realtime Roma, developed by the MIT SENSEable City Lab, in association with TIM Italia, presents a system that monitors people, buses and taxis in the city of Rome, showing paths and communicational densities. It allows visualizing data that may help understand urban dynamics in real time. The project’s director Richard Burdett argues that “by revealing the pulse of the city, the project aims to show how technology can help individuals make more informed decisions about their environment”.

Bio Mapping (2004) developed by Christian Nold is a community mapping project in which over the last four years with more than 1500 people have taken part in. In the context of regular, local workshops, participants are wired up with a device, which records the wearer's Galvanic Skin Response (GSR). This device is a simple indicator of the emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location.
People re-explore their local area by walking the neighbourhood with the device and on their return a map is created which visualizes points of high and low arousal. By interpreting and annotating this data, communal emotion maps are constructed that are packed full of personal observations which show the areas that people feel strongly about and truly visualize the social space of a community.

Mobile Augmented Reality

2009-03-31T21:23:00.006+01:00

Mobile Augmented Reality systems allow the visualization of digital information, via a mobile device, about a certain locality, thus “augmenting” the available information. The following photos show us two systems of this sort.

Wikitude AR Travel Guide, prototype developed by Mobilizy to run on Android (Google mobile phone operating system

The above image shows a system with the same mobile augmented reality technology that overlaps real image with software-generated 3D objects/graphics. The system operates through computer vision techniques which allow the reading of black and white squares on the real image. The user points the mobile to something containing the squares and the overlapped digital tri-dimensional which is also, interactive (multi-touch). When the user moves/rotates the mobile he can visualise different perspectives of the 3D object, which can also be animated. Furthermore, the system can detect many simultaneous squares thus allowing him the interaction with the different 3D objects by using the mobile’s multi-touch interface (iPhone).

In a near future we will take decisions in physical space based in real time digital information.

2009-03-31T11:48:00.002+01:00

Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech
Pattie Maes is working on newly founded Fluid Interfaces Group, part of the MIT Media Lab. This group aims to rethink the ways in which humans and computers interact, partially by redefining both human and computer. In Maes' world (and really, in all of ours), the computer is no longer a distinct object, but a source of intelligence that’s embedded in our environment. By outfitting ourselves with digital accessories, we can continually learn from (and teach) our surroundings. The uses of this tech -- from healthcare to home furnishings, warfare to supermarkets -- are powerful and increasingly real

LOCA - Pervasive surveillance

2009-03-24T12:28:00.004Z

LOCA is an artist-led project on grass-roots, pervasive surveillance using mobile phones. Combined art installation, software engineering, activism, pervasive design, hardware hacking, SMS poetry, sticker art and ambient performance.
A person walking through the city centre hears a beep on their phone and glances at the screen. Instead of an SMS alert they see a message reading: "We are currently experiencing difficulties monitoring your position: please wave your network device in the air."
Loca engages people by responding to urban semantics, the social meanings of particular places: "You walked past a flower shop and spent 30 mi nutes in the park, are you in love?"
Loca: Set To Discoverable enables people to question the networks they populate, and to consider how the trail of digital identities people leave behind them can be used for good or ill. It asks what happens when it is easy for everyone to track everyone, when surveillance is possible using consumer level technology within peer-to-peer networks without being routed through a central point?

Loca is a group project by John Evans (UK/Finland), Drew Hemment (UK), Theo Humphries (UK), Mike Raento (Finland)
Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2008

Tag a location: Mobotag and Flagr

2009-03-17T23:50:00.007Z

Mobotag reveals the hidden layers of a city through an active exchange of location based media and text messages via the cellphone. It's collaborative phone tagging of the city. Part virtual graffiti, part walking tour, mobotag creates a spontaneous and easy way for tagging a neighborhood via the cellphone. Send and view messages, images, videos and sounds. See art, read stories, and watch a hidden layer of the city reveal itself. Respond with your media and participate in the creative expression and mapping of your neighborhood.
By sending a text message to mobotag, with your city location, you begin a interactive tour of a neighborhood. Using a unique geocoding feature, mobotag tells you what other messages exist in your local area.

Similiar to Mototag, in Flagr you are able to tag a location in a map.

Visualizing high-tech’s human-centered future by Ideo for Intel

2009-02-20T13:19:00.001Z

Hussein Chalayan exhibition - Design Museum, London

2009-02-20T12:55:00.007Z

Leading the forefront of contemporary fashion design, the twice named 'British Designer of the Year,' Hussein Chalayan, is renowned for his innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitudes to new technology.

Exhibition in Design Museum include ‘Afterwords’ which explores the notion of ‘wearable, portable architecture’ in which furniture literally transforms itself into garments; ‘Airborne’ - bringing the latest LED technology to fashion design with a spectacular dress consisting of Swarovski crystals and over 15,000 flickering LED lights; ‘Before Minus Now’ a dress made of materials used in aircraft construction which changes shape by remote control and ‘Readings’ a dress comprising of over 200 moving lasers presenting an extraordinary spectacle of light.

Link to another post in this blog about Hussein Chalayan work

Golan Levin: The truly soft side of software

2009-01-23T02:15:00.001Z

Engineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of whats possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two programs he wrote to perform his original compositions.

...took some jeans and made them play music, by Kin

2009-01-23T00:59:00.001Z

Kin were approached by de-construct to help them realise an interactive in-store promotion for Tommy Hilfiger. To coincide with their new campaign ‘My Denim, My Music’, Tommy Hilfiger’s aim was to fuse fashion and music: both in their external advertising and through in-store promotions.

Tommy Hilfiger Interactive Audio Cassette from kin on Vimeo.

Kin developed a large-scale interactive audiocassette, to work as an in-store point of sale unit. 5 new styles of jeans were chosen, and a unique soundtrack was composed for each one by SkinnerBrosMusic. A specifically designed sticker on each pair of jeans instructs the customer to swipe the jeans against the giant cassette to ‘release the music’.

Kin used pre-programmed RFID tags that were placed behind the stickers. An RFID reader mounted inside the cassette reads the unique tag number.

GoCar

2009-01-22T02:32:00.004Z

GoCar it's a tour guide…a talking car…a trusty co-pilot…and a local on wheels.
GoCar is the first-ever GPS-guided storytelling car - and it's available to rent right now!
Leave your guidebook behind and see the San Francisco, San Diego, Lisbon, Barcelona and Miami most visitors never see.

Your clever talking car navigates and shows you the way – but that's not all. As you enjoy the drive, it takes you to all the best sites and tells the stories that bring these cities to life.
These cars are smart. An on-board computer and a GPS-system do the thinking so you can actually relax and take in the beautiful cities. Best of all, the adventure happens at your pace. You can stop for photos, take detours, grab a coffee or break for lunch.

Walk Score

2009-01-22T01:56:00.006Z

Walk Score help you find a walkable place to live by calculating a Walk Score for any address. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. Walk Score measures how easy it is to live a car-lite lifestyle—not how pretty the area is for walking.

Walk Score website also has the most "walkable neighborhoods" area.

JotYou

2009-01-22T01:43:00.005Z

JotYou™ is location based messaging. Send a message to your friends so they get it when they arrive at school or the ballpark or the mall. Make up geo-games. Track a foot race or bicycle race. Stage a road rally with virtual checkpoints, and feed the directions as participants progress. Ever plan to pick up the milk on the way home from work, but drive right by the store and forget? Use JotYou™ to remind yourself as you pass by specified locations.

How it works: You send a message to one person or many people, and specify a delivery time and location using the map on the computer, or an address from your mobile. When they arrive at the location you specify, JotYou™ alerts them by "buzzing" their cell phone, and delivering the message.

LoJo connect

2009-01-22T01:27:00.003Z

LoJo is a project launched by a team of Northwestern University graduate students to study the intersection of journalism and emerging location-based technologies.

What is locative storytelling?
Using the bouquet of emerging mobile and location-based technologies (from GPS-enabled mobile phones to interactive online maps), locative storytelling provides multi-media content that enhances a user’s connection to a given place. At its best, this kind of interactive media gives users increased entry points, and more control over, any given story, thereby enabling deeper and more vibrant experiences.

What are some examples?
If you’ve ever been on an audio tour of a museum or a city neighborhood, you’ve experienced locative storytelling. Other examples include Google mash-ups (user-enhanced Google maps that layer location-specific information over area maps) and GPS-based mobile games.

Soundwalks

2009-01-22T00:18:00.003Z

Soundwalks is an audio tour company, producing audio guides in which the listener is able to step into the life of a narrator as they guide you through their neighborhood streets and local hangouts. Soundwalks mix fiction and reality in a cinematic experience giving the listener the impression of actually being in a film.

Soundwalk has created over 40 walking tours - over 20 in New York alone: from the birth of Hip Hop in the Bronx with Jazzy Jay and Africa Bammbaataa to a memorial walk in Ground Zero with famed author Paul Auster. Recently completed a three-city project for Louis Vuitton in China, featuring Gong Li, Joan Chen, and Shu Qi and a unique sound experience for the Channel Mobile Art Container, featuring the voice of Jeanne Moreau. Soundwalk also produced the official Sony Picture "Da Vinci Code" tour of the Louvre with Jean Reno.

You Are Not Here

2009-01-21T23:48:00.006Z

You Are Not Here (.org) is a platform for urban tourism mash-ups. It invites participants to become meta-tourists on simultaneous excursions through multiple cities. Passers-by stumble across the curious You Are Not Here signs in the street.

TheYANH street-signs provide the telephone number for the Tourist Hotline, a portal for audio-guided tours of one place on the streets of another. Through investigation of these points and with or without the aid of a downloadable map, local pedestrians are transformed into tourists of foreign places. Current walking tours include Baghdad through the streets of New York City and Gaza City through the streets of Tel-Aviv.

Photosynth

2009-01-21T23:40:00.001Z

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.

How do designers address the immateriality and relatively new language of use of portable devices?

2008-01-27T14:40:00.000Z

Six students from Design Products, Industrial Design Engineering and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art have designed (2005) a landscape of concept furniture derived from the statue-like forms of people sitting, standing or leaning against walls engaged in playing the PlayStation Portable (PSP).

about the project

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

2008-01-27T14:00:00.000Z

source: adverlab

Reactive Cube

2008-01-27T13:42:00.000Z

The reactive cube, like a piece of paper or computer monitor screen is a form of visual medium. It is a more visceral kind of screen, designed to transform digital images into apparently physical objects.

It works by projecting a two dimensional image through a three dimensional mass - in this case water mixed with a specially formulated emulsion. The emulsion is composed of micro-sized particles of oil formulated to stay suspended in water. The projected light is captured by the oil and appears to become a virtually real object.

Each version in the series is based on a particular form of interaction. Some cubes respond to sound, another to the force of a person breath and the most recent draws a line around the edge of a person's hand. In each instance the interface has been made as transparent as possible, avoiding technology that comes between the user and their experience of what happens in the cube.

Later versions of the cube were developed in collaboration with Tom Roope of Tomato Interactive and Andy Allenson of Romandson.

German campaign against drunk driving

2007-12-08T14:27:00.001Z

Piss-screen

Skorpions

2007-11-21T22:49:00.000Z

Skorpions are a set of kinetic electronic garments that move and change on the body in slow, organic motions. They have anthropomorphic qualities and can be imagined as parasites that inhabit the skin of the host. They breathe and pulse, controlled by their own internal programming. They are not “interactive” artifacts insofar as their programming does not respond to simplistic sensor data. They have intentionality; they are programmed to live, to exist, to subsist. They are living behavioral kinetic sculptures that exploit characteristics such as control, anticipation, and unpredictability. They have their own personalities, their own fears and desires.

Skorpions reference the history of garments as instruments of pain and desire. They hurt you and distort your body the same way as corsets and foot binding. They emphasize our lack of control over our garments and our digital technologies. Our clothes shift and change in ways that we do not anticipate. Our electronics malfunction and become obsolete.

Skorpions shift and modulate personal and social space by imposing physical constraints on the body. They alter behavior, by hiding or revealing hidden layers, inviting others inside the protective shells of fabric, by erecting breathable walls, or tearing themselves open to divulge hidden secrets.

Reebok releases Timetanium Shoes designed by John Maeda

2007-11-16T17:32:00.001Z

Greyworld

2007-10-28T19:05:00.001Z

Greyworld goal is to create works that articulate public spaces, allowing some form of self-expression in areas of the city that people see every day but normally exclude and ignore.

The Source, an eight storey high kinetic sculpture, is the new symbol for the London Stock Exchange. Every morning, millions of viewers around the world will watch the installation come to life, signifying the opening of the London Markets.

Five bins and four benches have been injected with a magic serum of life so that they can break free from their staid and fixed positions to roam free in a public square in Cambridge.

Railings plays on the simple pleasure of picking up a stick and running it along a set of railings to make a lovely "clack-clack-clack" sound. We tuned the railings so that when you ran a stick along them they played "the Girl from Ipanema."

Electroland

2007-10-28T17:59:00.001Z

Electroland is a team that creates comprehensive and multi-disciplinary urban projects and scenarios. Electroland is a place where the vast network of electronic impulses and symbolic exchanges became tangible.

This project consists of a luminous field of LED lights embedded into the entry walkway that respond to the presence of visitors; a massive display of lights on the building face that mirror the patterns of the entry; and video displays in the lobby and entry areas.

Electroland has designed a unique Target branded interactive experience adjacent to the newly reopened Rockefeller Center top floor observation decks. The Interactive Breezeway engages pedestrians in an ephemeral interactive encounter where their position and paths are traced by colorful avatars and effects.

This project features two glass pedestrian bridges designed as "Interactive Walkways," each with a field of LED lights embedded in resilient walking surfaces. Sensors detect the presence of people and the system triggers interactive light patterns on the walkway floor.

Computer controlled colored lights fill 81 windows extending over 180 meters at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc.) Patterns are controlled by cellphone by any caller from any location, raising issues concerning private interaction and control of public spaces.

Toshio Iwai's work

2007-10-28T14:31:00.001Z

Toshio Iwai is a Japanese interactive media and installation artist who has also created a number of commercial videogames. In addition he has worked in television, music performance, museum design and digital musical instrument design.

Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

2007-10-26T02:25:00.001+01:00

ThinkGeek product:
- Glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength
- Shows signal strength for 802.11b or 802.11g

Sony's Bravia Advert

2007-10-25T14:29:00.001+01:00

Try them virtually

2007-10-25T14:23:00.001+01:00

"Glasses and contact lenses are noticeably big business all over Asia, so it’s no surprise to see a Japanese optician combining sales of spectacles with the venerable mobile phone.

Glasses superstore Megane Top has just started a handy service where browsers of the frame selection on their mobile website can go one step further and try them on virtually."
Source: digitalworldtokyo

Cadbury's Gorilla Advert - Hilarious!

2007-10-14T13:29:00.000+01:00

Blade Runner - tears in the rain

2007-10-12T23:19:00.001+01:00

Intimate Memory - XS Labs

2007-10-12T16:02:00.000+01:00

This project focuses on the research and development of reactive garments that will display their history of use. XS Labs employ a variety of input and output methodologies to sense and display traces of physical memory on clothing. These garments record acts of intimacy and indicate time elapsed since the intimacy events have occured.

An Intimate Memory shirt with a very sensitive microphone in the collar and a series of light points in a flower pattern incorporated into the front of the shirt. When a friend or partner whispers something into your ear, the microphone will record this event and the lights will light up, showing that an intimate event has occurred. The number of lights indicates the intensity of the intimacy event. Over time, the lights turn off, one by one, to show how long it has been since the intimate event took place.

David Batchelor - Colour and Light

2007-10-12T14:45:00.000+01:00

Through his artwork and writing, David Batchelor explores the concept of colour as a unique phenomenon: how colour’s omnipresence in everyday experience transcends function and aesthetics to create its own symbolic orders.

Brick Lane Remix 1 - Using second-hand light-boxes and shelving units, Batchelor’s Brick Lane Remix 1 is part of a series of work exploring how colour and culture are inextricably entwined. Grouping together a collection of electric signs found in the Banglatown area of London, Batchelor’s installation perfectly captures the gritty and exotic aura of Brick Lane, a shady side street notorious for prostitution, Jack the Ripper, and more recently, curry houses. Framing these cultural references as minimalist screens of neon hues, Batchelor creates a form of visual literature, isolating the essence of locality and contemporary legend. Source: Saatchi Gallery web site

United Visual Artists's work

2007-10-10T23:52:00.000+01:00

UVA's approach combines three disciplines: art direction, production design and software engineering. They tightly integrate these elements to deliver real-time, immersive and responsive experiences.
They work equally with LED, traditional lighting and projection technologies as sculptural elements.

Volume is a sculpture of light and sound, an array of light columns positioned dramatically in the centre of the V&A’s garden (last winter). Volume responds spectacularly to human movement, creating a series of audio-visual experiences. Step inside and see your actions at play with the energy fields throughout the space, triggering a brilliant display of light and sound.

Club Penguin

2007-10-09T17:56:00.000+01:00

"Club Penguin is a US social networking site for kids. There is millions of kids enjoying virtual life on Club Penguin. It’s kind of MySpace but instead of blogging and listing your favorite bands, you’re an animated penguin that can interact with other flightless avatars in a virtual arctic world.
Once registered, your penguin is free to roam the tundra, schmooze with other penguins, and participate in real-time games."
http://www.clubpenguin.com/

The American Look(1958)

2007-10-09T17:24:00.000+01:00

Daan Roosegaarde's work

2007-10-09T16:13:00.000+01:00

Daan Roosegaarde has sculpture graduation and a Master degree in architecture. Based in Rotterdam, his Studio Roosegaarde founded in 2006 initiates, researches and realises art and technology projects.

Roosegaarde's work explores the dynamic relationship between architecture, people and new media. His sculptures are a collision of technology and the human body. In this interaction the sculptures create a situation where visitor and (public) space become one.
http://www.studioroosegaarde.net/

I love Tengu!

2007-09-29T16:39:00.000+01:00

Last week I visited the Designersblock exhibition (100% Design, London) and I didn't resist and I bought Tengu.
Tengu is a character who connects to your computer's USB port. Tengu responds to sound, so if you play music then he looks like he is singing along with it.
http://www.tengutengutengu.com

Interactive Cube for vodafone

2007-09-26T14:25:00.000+01:00

"IDEO designed the reception and an outdoor 4 meter cube display for the Vodafone headquarters in Lisbon. Visitors could play media using either their own mobile phones or interactive furniture. Tom Hulbert designed and developed much of the interactive furniture, software, hardware and electronics."

LED Bubble Wall for O2

2007-09-26T14:03:00.000+01:00

"A network of 22 bubble displays covers a two story wall in O2s flagship store on Oxford Street, London. Text moves in patterns and behaviours, taking various journeys across the wall, changing speed, fading up and down, and appearing to scale and distort. An option to email or SMS to the display was included."
Credits: IDEO, Durrell Bishop, Tom Hulbert

Honda Advert - Energy

2007-09-23T16:00:00.000+01:00

"things knew when they weren’t be used, wouldnt we save a whole load of energy"

Cutting-Edge Cloth

2007-09-19T18:27:00.000+01:00

Today this event in Dana Centre explores the relationship between wearable technology and future fashion.
"we use renowned designer Hussein Chalayan’s 2007 collections as a springboard for discussion and hear from those involved at the cutting edge.
Future-fashion guru Suzanne Lee shares insights into the role wearable technology has to play within the field of fashion. Is it destined to remain on the catwalk? Or is there a way into the mass market for creations like those in the Hussein collections? Are they purely inspirational?
What do engineers have to do with fashion? Ask Rob Edkins, whose company 2d:3d worked with Hussein, putting together a series of mechanical dresses. Chat with someone who runs a ‘renaissance’ workshop… and find out what organisations like this do for future creativity.
Electronic engineer and designer Moritz Waldemeyer shares his experience of working at the interdisciplinary interface. What does the process of concept realisation look like in practice? How is technology being used to enhance methods of interaction with spaces and people? And where does fashion come into it all?"

Mobizines

2007-09-11T10:04:00.000+01:00

"The Mobizines service is all about entertainment snacks for your phone. The latest news stories, film reviews, some juicy gossip or lifestyle tips - The Mobizines service is available to everyone as a way of taking their content mobile.
Lots of top print and online magazines as well as TV channels and record labels are now working with us to create mobile magazines and you can get them on almost any mobile, any time.
You don't pay for our service - just your phone network's standard data charges and you don't have to go online to read our mags - just download them to your mobile in a few seconds, and read them when it suits you. Plus, our service is not a WAP service, so it is quick and easy to download and fun to use."
http://www.mobizines.com

DE PROXÉMICA - Virtual Reality / Video Art Instalation

2007-09-11T00:14:00.000+01:00

"Which is a security distance between people in public spaces?
Which is the minimum distance between two strangers so that a relationship can be established between them?
Can we have an active relation with images (in front of an ad, in a museum)?
DE PROXÉMICA is an interactive video-instalation that pretends to create a situation in which one can play with the relativity of time and space by means of the representation of an environment where social relations are at stake."
Andrés González Fernández y Gabriel Cruz Rivas

Handheld Projector by Xiang C

2007-09-10T23:58:00.000+01:00

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~caox/

Bubble Cosmos

2007-09-10T23:48:00.000+01:00

Interactive art installation using soap bubble and CG image projection.
http://in5.jp/bc/

Khronos Projector by Alvaro Cassinelli

2007-09-10T23:14:00.001+01:00

"The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to perform random temporal jumps between image frames.

The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate "islands of time" as well as "temporal waves" are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that "cuts" the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie."

Peanuts as business cards

2007-09-10T23:08:00.000+01:00

Holographic video projection in Catwalk

2007-09-10T19:38:00.000+01:00

"Diesel’s Creative Team (under the direction of Wilbert Das) based the show on an aquatic theme entitled “Liquid Space” and brought together Barcelona animation studio Dvein – who worked on the CGI visual effects and 3D animations – and Danish multi-media production agency, Vizoo, who provided the innovative technology for the show, which they had created themselves."
source www.creativereview.co.uk

Alexander McQueen

kameraflageTM Technology

2007-09-10T18:29:00.000+01:00

kameraflageTM is a Context-Sensitive Display Technology. I believe this amazing tecnhology could be very interesting in creative development.
How it works? kameraflageTM technology encodes a layer of information that can only be viewed by the human eye when looking at an image of the scene taken by a camera. No software needs to be installed on a camera-phone or digital camera for kameraflageTM to work.

kameraflage fashionTM:
kameraflage fashionTM forces people to think about the reproduction of images in the age of ubiquitous digital imaging devices. Kenneth Cole once said that "In cities everyone is on camera hundreds of times each day. Will you be dressed for it?". kameraflageTM is uniquely positioned to allow designers to create garments and accessories that speak specifically to those who are viewing through a digital camera viewfinder or who view the resulting digital image.
kameraflageTM allows for a new level of expression for those who are required to wear a uniform. Students at private schools and employees of chain-stores will be able to express themselves to their cameraphone toting peers. Will entities that seek to enforce dress-codes be able to combat this technology? Because it is only perceptible within the confines of mediated reality (cyberspace), yet exists in physical-reality, any attempt to control this form of expression will result in forcing people to discuss this decidedly modern grey-area.
The first hand-made prototype was worn by international model anina.net at the 2006 Fall Fashion Week in Paris, France

kameraflage billboardTM:
kameraflage billboardTM technology allows advertisers to place messages in new locations and situations. There are locations where it is currently inappropriate to place branded messages. This is true for historic locations, galleries, museums, etc. Using kameraflage billboardTM advertisers can place their messages in these locations without altering the naked-eye experience. As soon as someone takes a photograph your message becomes apparent.
Encourage audiences to seek out your messages. Build your brand around an interactive experience, where discovery, sharing and technology play a leading role
http://kameraflage.com

Camera Phones Account for 87% of Mobile Phone Shipments in 2010

2007-09-10T18:17:00.000+01:00

InfoTrends Study 2006
"The primary drivers behind this explosion are improvements in imaging functions (i.e. image sensors, zoom, and auto focus); rapid declines in prices for this functionality; higher speed wireless bandwidth; and easier-to-use handsets, services, and peripherals."

Victor Szilagyi works

2007-09-10T17:54:00.000+01:00

xBlocks

"xBlocks explores how elements of virtual and physical play could be more seemlessly integrated."

localHistories - leave your story after the beep

What if you could leave a message for a place instead of a person? localHistories proposes an easily deployable system of hacked answering machines to create localized oral history projects.
As partipants dial into the system to deposit stories, each node becomes active. If visitors are too far away, the nodes play all available stories simultaneously at low volume- in essence, replicating the audio qualities of a cocktail party. When visitors trigger a node's proximity sensor, the node isolates one of the many stories availble, and plays it at an audible level.
http://www.semiot.com/

Fashioning the Future: Tomorrow's Wardrobe - Suzanne Lee

2007-09-10T17:01:00.001+01:00

"Fashioning the Future is a visionary and creative exploration of where fashion and clothing are heading, the very first guide to the 'future wardrobe' and the emergent technologies making it possible. Ten major themes embrace all kinds of clothing, from 'The Spray-On Dress' to 'The Talking T-Shirt'."

Softspace - Contemporary Interactive Environments

2007-09-10T15:31:00.000+01:00

This Saturday I attended “Softspace” conferences, in Tate Modern.
"Softspace deploys new spatial systems including wearable computing, wifi, RFID and custom-designed digital software incorporating light, heat, sound and electromagnetic fields. These not only rely on people’s individual ways of interacting with them, but are enriched by narratives people contribute, creating new metaphors of use."

I was very impressed with the work quality of Jason Burges Studio.

Jason Bruges Studio, founded in London in 2001, creates surfaces, spaces and large scale interventions involving architecture, installation art and interaction design. Innovative technologies are adapted from a variety of industries and coupled with materials and fabrication techniques from the construction industry. http://www.jasonbruges.com

ClickSneacks

This work of Despina Papadopoulos is "part fantasy, part irony, the ClickSneaks subvert both the traditional attributes of a pair of shoes, and expose the multi-layered relationship we have with our clothes and accessories.
For the ClickSneaks the sound of the inspirational high heels has been recorded, only to be activated on each step the revamped sneakers take. Surface mount technology makes it possible to fit the necessary components in the sneakers: the original “click” sound is recorded on a voice chip, while a speaker, amplifier and an accelerometer acting as a “switch”, transform these seemingly normal sneakers into a flighty performance". http://www.5050ltd.com