Digital rug
April 4th, 2012 | Friends | Categories: Inspiration, Installation, Prototyping | Tags: Inspiration, Interactive, real-time, touch |
Prototype of a digital rug that changes shapes as you walk over it.
Contributed by Ellie Hardy
April 4th, 2012 | Friends | Categories: Inspiration, Installation, Prototyping | Tags: Inspiration, Interactive, real-time, touch |
Frisbee Rush – Mobile to Desktop/TV Game
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.
A Day Made of Glass Part 2
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:
Finding your way…
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)
Via Laughing Squid
Serendipitor – maps plus simple instructions to follow along the way — for the more whimsical commuter
The Expressive Web
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.
Fühl-o-meter – Public Face
December 12th, 2011 | James Taylor | Categories: Architecture, Art, Data Visualization, Events, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Outdoor, Sculpture, Social, Technology | Tags: Art, Data Visualization, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, mood, Projection, Sculpture, Social |
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
October 6th, 2011 | James Taylor | Categories: Development, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Music, Outdoor, Technology | Tags: dj, gesture, Inspiration, Interactive, kinect, Microsoft, Music, sound |
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.
Evolution of the Web
October 3rd, 2011 | Katy | Categories: Development, Education, Online, Technology | Tags: browser, HTML 5, Interactive, Online, real-time, Technology |
Most of us are familiar with the current technologies and buzz words of the Web — various browsers, APIs, HTML5, WebGL, etc. But how many know how we got here?
The Evolution of the Web beautifully charts this history. An interactive timeline, it invites you to poke around, browse screen shots of antiquated programs, and click to learn more about different technologies.
CodeAcademy
September 9th, 2011 | Friends | Categories: Development, Interactive, Online, Tool | Tags: code, development, Interactive, javascript, Online |
Awesome free tool for learning how to code in Javascript! http://www.codecademy.com/
iPad Iteration of novel with Shuffle feature
August 31st, 2011 | Katy | Categories: Interactive, Mobile | Tags: book, Interactive, Mobile, Shuffle |
Read Marc Saporta’s Composition No. 1 on shuffle with the novel’s new iPad iteration.
It doesn’t seem like this would be that relaxing of a reading experience, but it’s cool that the technology helps achieve the work’s original intention to be read non-linearly.
Via Gizmodo