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How to 3d Print


February 21st, 2013  |  Friends  |  Categories: Art, Design, Development, Inspiration, Prototyping, Technology, Tool  |  Tags: ,  |  YouTube Preview Image

A look inside the process.


Data Viz Libraries Galore


June 15th, 2012  |  Katy  |  Categories: Development, Reference, Tool  |  Tags: , ,  | 

Here’s a great collection of Data Viz libraries – mostly javascript – for techies or as a source of inspiration for anyone on what’s out there!

http://selection.datavisualization.ch/


Playing Tetris on a Building


May 10th, 2012  |  James Taylor  |  Categories: Architecture, Development, Gaming, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Outdoor  |  Tags: , , , , , ,  | 

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

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via laughing squid


Frogger Using Real-time 5th Ave Traffic


May 10th, 2012  |  James Taylor  |  Categories: Development, Gaming, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Outdoor, Technology  |  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,  | 

5th Ave Frogger is a hacked version of Frogger pulling in real-time 5th Ave traffic as game data. If you’re in New York this weekend, you can play.

via laughing squid


Nubot – A Video Chat Robot Doll


May 9th, 2012  |  Friends  |  Categories: Augmented Reality, Development, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Social, Technology, Tool  |  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,  | 

Nubot is a doll ready to host smartphone video chats via Skype.

The remote user can control the doll’s body gestures (wave, bow, turn) giving them more of a physical presence.

The folks at Nuuo that developed Nubot use it to have teleconferences between their offices.

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We’ve seen a more mobile, albeit less cute, telepresence robot named Texai in the past.

 


Car Pong Anyone?


April 30th, 2012  |  Ellie  |  Categories: Development, Gaming, Installation, Interactive, Outdoor  | 

Hold the beer and check out BBDO Germany’s Smart eBall installation for the third generation Smart car.
Cars play pong against each other to showcase the road responsiveness of this next gen version of the car.

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A field guide to web apps


April 13th, 2012  |  Friends  |  Categories: Development, Education, Inspiration  |  Tags: , ,  | 

An interactive book of guidelines for designing web apps:

 

http://www.html5rocks.com/webappfieldguide/toc/index/

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim


Frisbee Rush – Mobile to Desktop/TV Game


March 19th, 2012  |  Friends  |  Categories: Development, Gaming, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Installation, Interactive, Mobile, Online, Technology  |  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  | 

Unit9 premiered a new gesture-based, multiplayer, mobile-to-desktop synced game called Frisbee Rush at a few weeks back and are now finishing the app to be released in the coming weeks. More details on vimeo.


The Expressive Web


January 6th, 2012  |  James Taylor  |  Categories: Design, Development, Education, Inspiration, Interactive, Reference, Technology, Tool  |  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  | 

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


If this then that


November 16th, 2011  |  James Taylor  |  Categories: Development, Online, Technology, Tool  |  Tags: , , , , ,  | 

If this then that puts the internet to work for you. The free service allows users to set up a number of ‘recipes’ that fit the structure: if this happens, then do that. For instance, if rain is in the forecast, then send a text notification or if there’s a new post on Craigslist for a certain item, then send an email. Simple utility.