Now Sam Buxton’s Luminous Anatomy Lounger proves cloning could be really simple. As you come closer to the chair, it will interact with you-its electroluminescent display lights up, with its every detail clear to the user. But when you leave it, the chair’s light then gets dim and finally disappears. [Read the rest of this entry...]
How to quickly and conveniently find your car among the hundreds and even thousands ones? The camera-based ‘Find Your Car’ system installed in Santa Monica Place may help you quite much. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Wanna to have some fun when you’re waiting for a bus? That’s no longer a joke as some Interactive Bus Stations were already built in some districts of San Francisco. [Read the rest of this entry...]
What would tables be like in the next few years? Recently the Media Computing Group from Germany offered a possible answer with their BendDesk. It is a clever combination of common tables and computers, featuring a vertical display and a horizontal larger one. Frequently used devices like mouse, keyboard, paper-based documents and others are all built within the two areas, which promise an effective interaction with the users based on multi-touch technology. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Colorful LED lights have given the US map a new look and actually they’re used to highlight your travels within America. Beautifully framed, the Lighted LED US can effectively interact with the users, allowing them to easily find out how many cities they’ve been to. Really intuitive but pity that we don’t have a LED world map at the present. [Read the rest of this entry...]
So almost nothing SPECIAL appears in the picture? Then continue to check out more pics below… [Read the rest of this entry...]
Designed for Vanerum, an educational design consultancy, Bram Boo’s Salsa is a creative table set embedded with four iPad interactive systems that allow the users to share information and ideas when sit separately. Therefore you can just communicate via the screens if you do not want a talk in the public places. [Read the rest of this entry...]
No doubt the Wii players have influenced many people, and everyday there’re new players getting crazy with the fascinating interactive game. And maybe that’s why more and more designers have come to develop new interactive games, just as it did in the case of Zachery Shivers and Anne Flinchbaugh who have created a motion-controlled version of Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots. Its key ingredient is TI’s accelerometer-equipped Chronos watch, which can translate the players’ actual punches into rock ‘em sock ‘em punches.For more details, you can hit up the source link and the video after the jump. [Read the rest of this entry...]
If you don’t have enough money to spend on racing cars but still want to experience high speed, you should at least possess certain wisdom. Because with the power of invention and imagination, everyone can make an awesome interactive race course, just as the sputnic guys have done. Using old paper board, these guys created a RACER Interactive Video Game Installation that allows the players to drive from a first perspective as the small RC car that’s equipped with a wireless video camera is running on the track. So even if you’re simply sitting on a chair, you can still feel like that you’re driving a real car! Really cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Everyone has a secret, and so do the kids. They’re growing up, learning something new from their parents and teachers every day, and at the same time they’re experiencing the growing pains. To help children aged between 6 and 9 effectively cope with stress and fears, Emi Schenkelbach has designed the cute toy named as Echo. It has an acoustic pipe running from its ear to the belly, so as to record and repeat the words that the kids have said to it. Since the voice will be modified in the belly, no one else would know clearly what Echo is saying so that the kids can keep their secrets. Besides, the voice from Echo will also create unique sound effects to make the children laugh heartily. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The Jing Hua here refers not to “the flowers in the mirrors”, but to an interactive light system designed by Jifei Ou. Showcased during the light festival LUMINALE 2010, the Jing Hua Light has gained much attention for its changing colors, forms and sizes. The interactive installation includes two parts—a bowl and a projection system. So when you move, shake or tilt the bowl, you can then create various kinds of virtual flowers. Fantastic! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Natan Linder and his LuminAR make us love MIT more and love lamps more. The MIT student integrated a small scale digital projector with a robotic arm, creating an innovative interactive system that can help the users to check out images and emails directly on the table top. Its articulated robotic arm can also be used in combination with a laptop or a mobile phone. For a demonstration, continue with the video after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Microsoft, who has long enjoyed a high reputation both at home and abroad, attracted people all around the world again last month, with its new research project “Pinch-the-Sky”. It is a dome that is equipped with an omni-directional camera, a projector and a 3D model of the solar system. The project is also based on the multi-touch technology, which enables the visitors to navigate and manipulate the 360 degree image presented on the roof using freehand gestures or voice commands. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Infectious Light is a modular lighting system made up of several battery-run light bulbs that could sense and react to each other. These bulbs gotta light up one by one when you bring the “mother” light closer to the “baby” lights, and the project takes the very name “Infectious Light” simply from that act. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Even if your lover is in someplace far away, you’ll no longer feel lonely any more, because you have the Pillow Talk! It is an innovative project that aims to connect long distance lovers. [Read the rest of this entry...]
