Sparklab
April 2nd, 2012 | Friends | Categories: Inspiration |
An awesome idea from Stanford d.school students, the Sparklab truck delivers much-needed tools and supplies to schools.
April 2nd, 2012 | Friends | Categories: Inspiration |
A Day Made of Glass Part 2
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:
Musical House
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
Finding your way…
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
The Expressive Web
January 6th, 2012 | James Taylor | Categories: Design, Development, Education, Inspiration, Interactive, Reference, Technology, Tool | Tags: adobe, css3, design, development, HTML5, Inspiration, Interactive, Technology, web |
Adobe’s The Expressive Web demos the emerging capabilities that html5 and css3 deliver.
Uncover Your World
January 4th, 2012 | Friends | Categories: Art, Geolocation, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Mobile, Prototyping, Technology | Tags: 3D, app, printing |
Grow Interactive worked with Google to concept and develop Uncover Your World, a lovely mobile experience for Google’s Search App.
To build the ad experience, Grow modeled an entire “world” with 3D technology and used a 3D printer to bring it to life. Check out the making-of video below:
You can explore the mobile site here: http://www.uncoveryourworld.com/
Contributed by Mia Ruiz-Escoto
MapCodes: Sexier, More Useful QR Codes
January 4th, 2012 | Katy | Categories: Art, Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Sculpture, Technology, Tool | Tags: maps, QR code |
You may think their time has passed, but what if QR Codes were less ugly and more useful?
Designer Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino set out to improve this troubled medium with Mapcodes, a hyper-linking system that uses fragments of maps — instead of indecipherable blocks — to link to full maps.
http://designswarm.com/blog/2011/09/mapcodes/
Although still in prototype/idea territory, it’s refreshing to see more user-friendly (and beautiful) graphic languages being developed for connecting digital content to physical locations.
Contributed by Ralph Paone
Fühl-o-meter – Public Face
December 12th, 2011 | James Taylor | Categories: Architecture, Art, Data Visualization, Events, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Outdoor, Sculpture, Social, Technology | Tags: Art, Data Visualization, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, mood, Projection, Sculpture, Social |
Fühl-o-meter assesses the sentiment of peoples faces’ and projects the ambient mood of the city through a smiley face atop a tower.
via laughing squid
Make Real Beats
November 1st, 2011 | Katy | Categories: Inspiration, Music, Outdoor, Tool | Tags: app, ipad, iphone, Mobile, Music, sound |
Collect sounds from everyday life and use this app to make music with them!
Via Laughing Squid
Inkling
November 1st, 2011 | Katy | Categories: Art, Inspiration, Technology, Tool | Tags: Art, digital, sketch, Wacom |
Attention all creative directors who never bothered to learn Photoshop: here’s an amazing new Wacom tool that transforms your sketches into digital files.
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
Via Discovery News