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May 10th, 2012 | James Taylor | Categories: Architecture, Development, Gaming, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Outdoor | Tags: game, Gaming, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, interface, tetris |
Some folks at MIT hacked a building to play Tetris on the side of it.
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May 10th, 2012 | James Taylor | Categories: Development, Gaming, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Outdoor, Technology | Tags: arcade, development, frogger, game, Gaming, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, nyc, real-time |
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.
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May 9th, 2012 | Friends | Categories: Augmented Reality, Development, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Social, Technology, Tool | Tags: app, Augmented Reality, chat, Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, real-time, robot, Social, Video, webcam |
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.
We’ve seen a more mobile, albeit less cute, telepresence robot named Texai in the past.
May 8th, 2012 | James Taylor | Categories: HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Technology | Tags: Augmented Reality, Installation, Interactive, interface, multi-touch, Technology, touch, touch screen |
Disney Research presents Touché, demonstrating that touch interactions don’t have to be limited to an on/off detection on glass, but rather any type of touch on any type of surface.
via laughing squid
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.
March 19th, 2012 | Friends | Categories: Development, Gaming, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Installation, Interactive, Mobile, Online, Technology | Tags: app, development, digital, Gaming, gesture, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, ipad, iphone, Mobile, multiplayer, Online, tv, websockets |
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.
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:
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)
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Serendipitor – maps plus simple instructions to follow along the way — for the more whimsical commuter
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.
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
