All you need is a wireless network to hook up your smartphone and watch YouTube videos in this cool, pop up outdoor theatre. Plus the structure itself kind of resembles a jungle gym.
Via Fast Co. Design
Narcissus is a desktop app for macs that responds with flashes of colored lights to your movements. Rumor has it an iPhone version is in the works.
Osaka University shows off their 3D Multi-viewpoint fog projection display.
via DigInfoTV
X&Y is the new brainchild from Australian lighting designer Flynn Talbot. The glowing, globe-like object responds to touch, casting different shades of colored, ambient light depending on the way the user manipulates it.
An installation by artist Nils Volker animates ordinary plastic bags mounted on the wall, making them expand and contract — and interact with passersby — by using microcontrollers and cooling fans. The result is a slightly eerie and captivating interactive experience.
Via stellawongo
Our friends over at AKQA are using their office building (conveniently located next door to AT&T Park) and some clever technology to make online Giants World Series fervor a part of the live game experience:
(pic via AKQA)
Send your tweets to #gogiants to get in on the action.
Read more here.
Video projection mapping transforms the already unusual exterior of Frank Gehry’s IAC building at the Vimeo Festival + Awards in New York.
via Laughing Squid
Teenagers visiting the Coca-Cola Village Amusement Park in Israel could Like locations throughout the park simply by waving their personal RFID bracelet in front of a physical Facebook Like button.
via All Facebook
In 2009, Urban Screen and artist Daniel Rossa teamed up to create 555 Kubik, a facade installation meant to transform the way spectators engaged with O. M. Ungers “Galerie der Gegenwart.”
Exciting to see facade projection made with the building involved in mind.
At the 2009 Branchage Film Festival, Seeper Interactive used innovative projection technology to change festival-goers experience of urban space.
Catch a glimpse of the jaw-dropping work in this video:
Excellent example of the power of technology to completely alter our relationship to physical structures. Other examples here and here.
The technology involved, Architectural Projection Mapping, will be used as a part of Vimeo’s first annual Vimeo Festival + Awards going down in NYC, October 8-9 this year.