Touch this silver cube for a weather forecast. The Cryoscope uses a simple system with an Arduino controller to adjust heat or coolness levels to represent the temperature outside. Just enter your zip code in a webapp and feel tomorrow’s air temperature!
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.
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Prototype of a digital rug that changes shapes as you walk over it.
Contributed by Ellie Hardy
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:
Imagine using an iPhone in the palm of your hand. Now, do it again but put the phone away.
Using a depth perceptive camera, researchers are able to allow people to use their iPhones remotely. People can tap their palms, swipe or perform other gestures captured by a depth-sensitive video camera. The signals are transmitted to the iPhone using a WiFi radio and the actions are performed in realtime.
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37611/
Imagine allowing people to use a personal phone or public kiosk by interacting with either themselves (palm touch) or more subtle means, such as voice or other “natural” gestures. We are no longer tethered to the device.
Contributed by Kevin Jeong
Apple recently released an iAd gallery to the App store where you can get some examples of the latest and greatest iAds to interact with & show creatives.
And if you’re on Android, AdMob has an app for you too.
It always stands out when a brand actually finds an interactive way to interact with their audience. I think this one works because it’s such a simple idea, that you almost feel like you’re acting in the video. There’s nothing to click, nothing to drag or drop, just a simple action of touching your screen. There’s something that we miss online, that we used to have with print ads where when we held the tactile ad it brought us closer to the brand. This is a new approach to “touching the brand.” I’ve seen a few people pull their hand back once the ad is down and say, “ew!” with a smile. That’s what makes it great. Simple advertising, playing off the brands tag line. It’s no wonder this has gone viral so quickly!
Contributed by Lindsay Siegel
via mashable
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.
Innovative furniture design that adds a new kind of flexibility and touch capability to the workspace, created by the Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany.
Via Laughing Squid
Projeqt aims to enable people to share their stories by providing a simple way to create a website viewable on any device. TBWA created the publishing tool and used it to build their own website.