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:

The Expressive Web

Adobe’s The Expressive Web demos the emerging capabilities that html5 and css3 deliver.

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)

Using Your Hands to Light Paint with Kinect Graffiti

Jean-Christophe Naour’s Kinect Graffiti uses Microsoft’s Kinect to respond to gestures creating real-time light paintings.

via laughingsquid

Jam3 – Bjork

Who doesn’t like Bjork?
Our friends at Jam3 http://www.jam3media.com/ who showed off their new site (coming soon) at FITC (its pretty insane) have been busy working with Bjork on her new site which just launched http://bjork.com/.
Its the first phase of her Biophilia project and it will continue growing over time.
HTML5 and they made their own 3D engine to parse the info coming out of Google Sketchup where it was designed by the Parisian artists M/M.

Editor’s Note: This is an excellent use and example of HTML5 + 3D being used in a site.  HTML5 works on mobile and iPad as opposed to Flash, which does not work on i-anything-mobile.

http://bjork.com/

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim J2theA

Interactive Sound Sculpture

“Invoxicated” invites kids – and adults, really – to create and manipulate sound effects in a public space.

Via Laughing Squid

3D Interactive Music Video for Chrome

“3 Dreams of Black” is an interactive film by Chris Milk for Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s ROME album.

Chris Milk was also the director behind Arcade Fire’s amazing Chrome-experiment-music-video “Wilderness”.

For “3 Dreams of Black” Milk used WebGL technology which brings hardware-accelerated graphics to the browser, without the need for additional software.  Chrome is one browser that supports WebGL.

You can read more about it on Google’s blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/3d-dreams-in-modern-browser.html

And can view and experience the video here:  http://www.ro.me

More great examples of the in-browser 3D capabilities of WebGL are located here: http://www.ro.me/tech/

Contributed by Francois Grouiller

Virtual Makeup

Lancome Facebook app lets you realistically try out their new color palettes on your profile pics.

Pretty good execution, but a little hard to use.  The Facebook integration is great.

http://mashable.com/2011/05/17/lancome-house-of-color/

Inspiration for the Creative Process

Justin Gignac, artist and advertising art director, talks at PSFK about the inspiration behind some of his wonderful web-based ideas.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/05/10/justin-gignac-psfk/

Interactive Cat Ears Show How You Feel

Neurowear is a Japanese fashion company that concepts around the idea of the “Augmented Human Body.”

They have created a pair of wearable feline ears that sense brain activity and respond to your emotions.

If the wearer is concentrating, they stand up.  When relaxed, the ears lie down.

Bizarre but fascinating.  What other kinds of interactive devices could respond to brain waves?

http://www.refinery29.com/cat-ear-headbands-that-move-when-you-feel