110 Stories

110 Stories imposes an outline view of the Twin Towers on the NYC skyline using augmented reality.

Based on your location, the app offers a glimpse back of how the towers figured into the cityscape from multiple vantage points. The app also encourages people to comment and share their memories and impressions of the augmented skyline.

The project, from artist Brian August, reached its goal on Kickstarter just in time for the 10 year anniversary of 9/11.

Read more about it here: http://kck.st/nIyEjN

Wired and Whimsical

From wallets that help your spending to hula girls that tweet from your carshare, the work of concept artist John Kestner — who uses APIs to “teach” objects how to react to our everyday lives — could be amazing inspiration for DOOH work.

Contributed by Leila Coffman

8-Bit Invader – Video Game Projection Mapping

8-Bit Invaders is just a simulation, but seems like a stellar idea to project a video game on building. Making it playable would be even cooler.

via laughing squid
contributed by Sosia Bert

WOW! World of Fourcraft

What do you get when you combine the mystical World of Warcraft with Foursquare?

World of Fourcraft uses the Google maps API and Foursquare to transform New York into a huge, WOW-inspired, multi-player strategy game fueled by check-ins. New Yorkers: declare your allegiance to a borough today!

As it’s well-put by Mashable, “the nerdverse might just explode.”

Via Mashable

Charge Your Phone with Your T-Shirt

There’s a new solution to a dead phone battery, and you can wear it on your body! That is, if you happen to be at a concert. And also have this crazy weird shirt. But the idea of using live sound waves to charge your phone — in this case, with the Orange Sound Charge T-Shirt — is fun, if a little impractical.

Toronto Tourism Cheating Wall

Toronto Tourism has created a “cheating wall” where visitors can see via video screens into Montreal, and vice versa.

Equipped with video and audio, it’s a live portal enabling people to even chat with their counterparts in the other city.

http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/marketer-news/torontomontreal-go-to-the-wall-in-new-tourism-campaign-28905

Angry Birds LIVE

It may not be the most innovative idea ever, but this live version of Angry Birds was probably really fun to produce. Plus it’s always interesting to see the translation of an online experience into the physical world — it definitely started a party in Barcelona!

Contributed by Collin Whitehead

Interactive Sound Sculpture

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

Via Laughing Squid

Elaborate Escape Machines

Walk up close, push the red button, say where you want to go and…. !!!

Amazingly fun and over-the-top.

Facial Recognition Software Can Determine Gender/Age of a Person

Facial recognition on a billboard that can determine the gender, age and race of the people looking at it. Alongside the consumer’s information, the software customizes ads by pulling in local data including the weather and social media updates from sites like Twitter.

Apparently, this is not new technology, but what is new is that the information pulled is being used to target the audience with an appropriate ad.  Minority Report, anyone?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/25/immersive-labs_n_853555.html

Contributed by Andrew Lee