A Day Made of Glass Part 2

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:

The Expressive Web

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

Fühl-o-meter – Public Face

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

Kinect DJ Maxx

Using Kinect, Romain Dumaine controls sound with gestures with an aim to enhance interaction between a DJ and the crowd.

Kinecthacks.com showcases other kinect/sound experiments.

Rorschmap

Transform Google Maps into trippy, kalidescopic images reminiscent of the ink blots from Rorschach test.

Check it out here: http://rorschmap.com/

Via Laughing Squid

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

Hello World

A simple, elegant art piece made from illuminated rocker switches honors the roots of computer programming while commenting on how quickly technology seems outdated.

 Via Triangulation Blog

Using Your Hands to Light Paint with Kinect Graffiti

Jean-Christophe Naour’s Kinect Graffiti uses Microsoft’s Kinect to respond to gestures creating real-time light paintings.

via laughingsquid

Snap! and Focus It Later

The Lytro camera makes taking quick snapshots quick again. When you click to take a photo, the camera captures all the light information it can and provides you with a digital file you can edit later.

Born out of founder Ren Ng’s years of research and PhD thesis, this development in digital photography has the potential to transform still shots into more interactive, varied pictures as the user can edit the photo to switch between different points of focus, adjust the light levels, etc.

Essentially, the technology lets you take your photos more quickly, and then play with them for longer. What sounds better than that?

Contributed by Christine Wilson

Via Mashable

An elegant frame for digital art

FRAMED* is a simple, modern display that hints at the inevitable presence of these kinds of screens in all our surroundings. Home, work, wherever  — as the technology develops, so will the frame for showcasing it.