Tuesday, August 20, 2013

[156] Coca-Cola: The Personalised Road

Playing on the back of things like ‘Share A Coke’ made famous in Australia, Coca-Cola in Israel have created ‘The Personalised Road’ a long popular strip of billboards that have been converted into personalised Coca-Cola messages for anyone who downloaded and connected to the app. read more

[155] How Pay-Per-Gaze Advertising Could Work With Google Glass

In the patent, which was filed in May 2011 and granted last week, Google claims that “a head-mounted gaze tracking device” — presumably Google Glass — would send images and the direction the person wearing the device was looking to a server. The system would then identify real-world ads that the person wearing the gadget had seen, allowing Google to then charge the advertiser. read more

[154] The Inspiring Story of a Man With No Vision, but a Big Voice

Once upon a time, Pete Gustin dreamed of becoming a voiceover artist. But at age 8, he was diagnosed with macular degeneration, a medical condition that results in loss of vision, turning him legally blind. At 21, a New York-based agent told him he'd never make it in the business; his blindness prevented him from reading lines. read more

Wednesday, July 03, 2013

[153] HOW THE LIVE CONCERT EXPERIENCE IS CHANGING DRASTICALLY

Summer is in full swing and that means thousands of festivals and concerts are entertaining people across the globe. Despite changes in the way people are consuming virtually every other form of entertainment and media, live shows has more or less remained the same. Sure, there may be better pyrotechnics, lasers lights and stadium sound systems year after year, but the concert going experience is ripe for technological innovation.
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Monday, July 01, 2013

[152] This Subway Window Whispers Ads That Only You Can Hear

Do you ever feel like ads are speaking to you? Well, new talking windows ads for Sky Go—a mobile streaming service—literally speak to you using bone conduction technology. read more

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

[151] Huggies: Dad's pregnant too

[150] KRISS, 모니터속 가상현실 촉감 느끼는 '마우스' 개발

미래창조과학부는 한국표준과학연구원(KRISS) 질량힘센터 연구팀이 가상현실의 느낌을 실재감 있게 전달해 줄 수 있는 복합 촉각 마우스를 개발했다고 12일 밝혔다.
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[149] Futuristic Internet-Enabled Sign Spins to Show Directions

We’re living in an ever more-connected world, and it’s only a matter of time before absolutely everything is electronic and equipped with wi-fi. Points is a futuristic internet-enabled directional sign with arms that spin to point the way to your desired destination.
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[148] Sony and Lego ponder next-gen toys in Tokyo

The project was on display as part of an open house at a Sony computer science lab in Tokyo.
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[147] Tunetrace – photograph real drawings to make music

Make drawings in the real world, photograph them with Tunetrace and hear them transformed into music.
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[146] Lasers and bubbles

Using a high-speed infrared camera to track bubbles and other movement, and project lasers back onto the objects.
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Lasers and bubbles from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

[145] Murmur — From sound to light, by talking to walls

Murmur is an architectural prosthesis that enables the communication between public and the wall upon which it is connected. The installation simulates the movement of sound waves, building a luminous bridge between the physical and the virtual worlds.

Murmur — From sound to light, by talking to walls. from Chevalvert on Vimeo.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

[144] Axe Young & Mature

https://www.youtube.com/user/AxeExperience/Home

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

[143] Coca-Cola: Small World Happiness Machines

In the latest ‘Open Happiness’ installation from Coca-Cola, they set out to break down barriers and create a simple moment of connection between two nations, India and Pakistan, who have different opinions. read more

Thursday, April 25, 2013

[142] Fujitsu Develops Technology That Turns Paper Into a Touchscreen

"This system doesn't use any special hardware; it consists of just a device like an ordinary webcam, plus a commercial projector. Its capabilities are achieved by image processing technology," explains Taichi Murase, a researcher at Fujitsu's Media Service System Lab. read more

[141] Second Surface – Multi-user spatial collaboration system

Collaborative drawing in 3D space has a long history at MIT and on CAN. Starting in the early 2000′s where translucent screen was used to observe three-dimensional objects drawn in space (sorry no link) to our own GD3D app published on the AppStore in september 2010 (free). There is general interest in populating virtual environments and we have seen a large number of projects in the past that do just this. Unfortunately this virtual space is very fragmented, each project relying on its own interface and technologies not to mention different devices used to navigate it. read more

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

[140] How It Feels [through Glass]

Want to see how Glass actually feels? It's surprisingly simple. Say "take a picture" to take a picture. Record what you see, hands free. Even share what you see, live.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

[139] Interactive Christmas Card

Experience Mobile Mobile
2010


Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.


Happy Christmas from AKQA
Dec 12, 2008


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Monday, February 11, 2013

[138] What Intersections Would Look Like in a World of Driverless Cars

Driverless cars! Probably, we wouldn't need to have traffic lights. See the model for an intersection that all cars don't need to stop. Traffic will constantly flow.
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Monday, January 07, 2013

[137] Leap Motion

Leap Motion represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It's more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements.
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