Playing Tetris on a Building

Some folks at MIT hacked a building to play Tetris on the side of it.

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A Day Made of Glass Part 2

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:

Fühl-o-meter – Public Face

Fühl-o-meter assesses the sentiment of peoples faces’ and projects the ambient mood of the city through a smiley face atop a tower.

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Augmented City

Keiichi Matsuda imagines what it would be like when digital layers of information converge with the physical environment – no device required. (Best viewed in 3D if you have 3D glasses handy)

8-Bit Invader – Video Game Projection Mapping

8-Bit Invaders is just a simulation, but seems like a stellar idea to project a video game on building. Making it playable would be even cooler.

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Video Projection Mapping Makes a Building Sing and Dance

This use of video projection mapping tranforms a building into a twisting, bouncing, dancing machine. It’s also interactive; as audience members direct sounds into microphones, a massive face on the surface of the building appears to sing them.

Created by French architecture firm 1024 Architecture, PERSPECTIVE LYRIQUE was featured as part of the Lyon Festival of Lights in 2010.

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3D Fog Display

Osaka University shows off their 3D Multi-viewpoint fog projection display.

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BBC Dimensions

Picture what things would look like if they happened somewhere else on the map with the BBC’s Dimensions.

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Polymaps

SimpleGeo and Stamen have released Polymaps: a free javascript library for creating dynamic, interactive maps. They provide a beautiful gallery of examples and user-friendly documentation.

The maps make use of APIs from Cloudmade, which has an impressive gallery or mobile and desktop mapping apps.

VIDEO PROJECTION MAPPING

Video projection mapping transforms the already unusual exterior of Frank Gehry’s IAC building at the Vimeo Festival + Awards in New York.

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