[135] LG Electronics Terror Elevator Ad Goes Viral

A grid of IPS monitors are installed on the floor of an elevator to create an optical illusion that the elevator is plummeting to its demise as a hidden camera captures the reactions of riders who believe their end is near.
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[134] Pumpktris

People do some pretty impressive things for Halloween, but this playable Tetris jack o’lantern is arguably the most impressive thing ever made out of an orange gourd. Nathan of HahaBird took his pumpkin from typical to totally rad with the use of some LEDs, an Arduino and some good old fashioned drilling and soldering.
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[133] Philips Hue First Impressions: Wi-Fi Lighting Plus Fun

Philips just upped the ante by making bulbs that can not only cast four gorgeous shades of white, but any color you can imagine.
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[132] Printed Optics

Printed Optics is a new approach to creating custom optical elements for interactive devices using 3D printing. Printed Optics enable sensing, display, and illumination elements to be directly embedded in the body of an interactive device.
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[131] Room/E

Moved Room/E into a new set and added one new trick. Room/E is an examination heads up computing in an environment containing the room sized inputs and outputs of computer vision and voice.
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[130] Silo468 – Permanent light installation in Helsinki

Silo 468 is a permanent light installation that transforms abandoned oil silo in Helsinki into a light display and civic center. For this project, Tecné Collective joined Lighting Design Collective to create a custom software that controls the installation’s light show.
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[129] Tesco: Homeplus Subway Virtual Store

Virtual grocery shopping in the subway.
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[128] RainRoom

RainRoom offers an environment of perpetual rainfall that responds to the presence of its visitors. As soon as you approach the installation, a cocoon of dryness is created around you. This leaves you able to wander freely through different areas of the space, surrounded by falling water, and yet to remain completely dry. RainRoom allows the freedom to experience this unique environment; to be untouched by the rain falling all around you.
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[127] Sight

Eye-mounted or eye-embedded heads-up displays are no longer in the realm of science fiction. They’re getting closer all the time, and eventually they’ll be just as commonplace as our regular contact lenses of today.
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[126] Flexible Battery

Korean scientists have created a battery that’s so super-thin and flexible that it could one day lead to gadgets with big screens that can be folded away into your pocket.

A big limitation on the screen size of portable electronics is screen size. Since today’s phones, tablets and e-readers are rigid, there’s an upper limit to what can fit in a pocket or handbag. But the gadget can fold up, that’s another story.
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[125] Concept Futuristic iPhone

We have seen laser keyboards existing for a couple of years now, but sadly they were never a true solution for everyone due to their lack of precision. . What we have right here is a device with a holographic interface and what looks like a projector. Since Apple recently patented a pico projector and bought the domain applepico.com, it’s only a matter of time till we’ll see iPhones with projectors inside and capable of projecting holograms for interface.
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[124] Digital Drawing Board Creates Objects in Stunning 3D Detail

ETOS, or Electronical Tool for Object Sketching, is a tool for designers and architects that lets them see their creations in three dimensions without the need for 3D glasses. The tool uses the familiar shape of a pen and the intuitive function of a touch interface to bring sketches into the real world.
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[123] Augmented Reality App Puts Cartoons on Real-World Stuff

The LZRTAG app takes street art from static images to 2D animations that anyone can create and spread around. After uploading an animation, you print out some customized augmented reality tags that you then post on any real-world surface. A passerby scans the tags with his or her smartphone and gets to watch the two-dimensional animation instantly.
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[122] Digital Data Printer

Oksu is a digital data printer concept taps into this level of sharing by making it possible to instantly “print” a tangible copy of a song, article, link or file that can be physically shared between individuals.
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OKSU from Alexander on Vimeo.

[121] Interactive Displays: Behind the Screen Overlay Interactions

Behind the Screen Overlay Interactions: Behind-the-screen interaction with a transparent OLED with view-dependent, depth-corrected gaze.

[120] New iPad surface with retina display

The new iPad 3 video contains advanced CG iPad 3 features on a new iPad design. A huge step up from iPad 1 features or iPad 2 features.

[119] Soundmachines

The Product, a Berlin-based design studio with a focus on objects, space and interaction, was commissioned by Volkswagen to develop a set of visuals for an interactive musical performance for the premiere of the New Beetle at the 2011 IAA motor show (September 15-25, 2011, Frankfurt am Main). What the client got instead was Soundmachines – a custom-built instrument for performing electronic music by DJing visual patterns on record-sized discs. Honk for ingenuity!
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Soundmachines from The Product on Vimeo.

[118] Still Life

Still life paintings have been an artist favorite for plenty of centuries, and if done well they can be truly remarkable. read more

Still Life from Scott Garner on Vimeo.