February 10th, 2012 | James Taylor | Categories: Architecture, Augmented Reality, Data Visualization, Design, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Prototyping, Technology | Tags: Augmented Reality, corning, Data Visualization, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, multi-touch, Technology, touch, touch screen |
Corning released a follow up to their ‘A Day Made of Glass’, demoing the future of touchscreen technology.
Here’s Part 1 with 17.5 million views as of this posting:
February 2nd, 2012 | Katy | Categories: Inspiration, Installation, Music, Outdoor, Sculpture | Tags: Art, Installation, Music, real-time, Technology |
Roof-mounted sensors translate light, rain, wind and thunder inputs to generate an impromptu musical score.
Drawing its sounds directly from the elements, no day’s synthesizer-style music is the same — who knew lightning could sound like reverb and that moonlight purrs?
Another take on a musical house from the artist Swoon: http://kck.st/lDCdCT
Via Laughing Squid
February 2nd, 2012 | Katy | Categories: Geolocation, Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Outdoor, Tool | Tags: google maps, Interactive, iphone, Mobile |
Two mobile apps for navigating the city in two very different ways:
Embark – maps plus some more hand-holding (i.e. alerts, underground access)
Via Laughing Squid
Serendipitor – maps plus simple instructions to follow along the way — for the more whimsical commuter
