Interactive picture book

Petting Zoo: simple, engaging interactive picture book from the delightful Christoph Niemann.

My Magic+

Disney announced a new bracelet-based system for park-goers: My Magic+. Green, glowing bracelets equipped with RFID technology, will soon allow Disney World visitors to make payments, receive alerts and better navigate the massive park. It will also collect more data about the people wearing them — and undoubtedly raise questions about privacy and the ethics of data collection in the process.

via New York Times

Musical Message in a Bottle

Re: Sound Bottle captures ambient noise and remixes it into unique, unexpected tracks. The bottle’s cork interface controls when it both records and plays back the sounds it captured — a fun use of technology to enhance the soundtrack of everyday life.

via Laughing Squid

what will you look like in 30 years…

… And will that image motivate you to open a 401k?

Wired magazine posted an article yesterday about a cool new digital campaign from Merrill Edge that shows you what you’ll look like in 30 years with the goal of incentivizing you to sock away money.

Contributed by Michael Phillips

Catalogue with digital extensions

The IKEA catalogue grows some digital limbs by using augmented reality.

Via Design Week.

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim.

ARART – Augmented Reality meets high art

The sleek application ARART uses augmented reality to amplify classic artwork.

via Design Boom

Interactive Chapel Music Installation

In this interactive musical installation laser pointers trigger sounds and visuals projected onto the interior of a Czech chapel.

via Laughing Squid

This Exquisite Forest

This Exquisite Forest is a collaborative storytelling tool. Inspired by the Surrealist drawing game of “exquisite corpse,” the site allows anyone to start an animation tree by drawing a series of short frames — a “seed” — or add on to an existing tree. The project, from Google’s Data Arts team, is also temporarily installed in the Tate Modern in London.

Check out some popular trees here and here and here.

A Touch-based Weather Forecast

Touch this silver cube for a weather forecast. The Cryoscope uses a simple system with an Arduino controller to adjust heat or coolness levels to represent the temperature outside. Just enter your zip code in a webapp and feel tomorrow’s air temperature!

Playing Tetris on a Building

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

via laughing squid