Philips - Digi Graf Wall

Lil kid drawing on a digital wall.My parents would have loved to have one of these in the house when I was a kid growing up - would have saved LOADS of re-decorating:)

Mastodon Linoleum Knife-Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie Intro

You gotta watch this! It was shown before the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie it features Mastodon as the voices behind the junk food band.Couple of my favorite lines from the animation:

"If I see you recording this movie,Satan will rain down your throat with hot acid and dissolve you testicles and turn your guts into snakes"

"This is a copyrighted movie for Time Warner.If I find it on Ebay, Iwill break into your house and tear your wife in half!"

Soundball [Physical+Virtual Toys]

Cool football created by Aleksei R. Stevens that connects to a computer via bluetooth and plays sound whist being played with. Here's the clip:


I love toys/object merging the boundaries between the virtual and the physical, the Nabaztag is a great example of this.
I've Gotta get me one of those 'wabbits' - Might have to put it on my wedding list :)

Nicolas Nova:Mixed digital & Physical environments [Turin 2007]

Long but interesting talk given by Nicolas Nova on Mixed digital and Physical environments. He talks about current and emerging technologies within the Ubiquitous computing arena as well as projects that he is currently working on. I especially like the 'blogject' (Blog-Object) project where objects such as Sony's Aibo could potentially automatically post to its own blog when having interactions with the environment and people. Worth while having a look if you have an hour or so free.

Diesel: HD 3D Holographic Fashion Show

Absolutely amazing!.I've watched this clip over and over again and every time I think 'shit the bed :).Diesels Spring/Summer 08 catwalk show is a great mix between physical space and technology.HD 3D animations were weaved with models walking down the cat walk at the Pitti Immagine Uomo fair in Florence. Based on an aquatic theme 'Liquid Space', the Hologram were viewable from both sides of the stage.The team that worked on it aswell as Diesel's creative team (overseen by Wilbert Das) were barcelona based Dvein who created the visual effects which were combined with the 'badass' technology provided by Vizoo based in Copenhagen.Ok you wanna see the clip,it 's a bit log at 17mins but worth a look :)

Wanna know how it's done?
On the crblog they asked Diesel and this was the response:

“The visuals are projected through a series of ‘foils’ into mid air, so you see the images in mid-air. The models can then interact with them and walk through them. We used plastic foils placed at 45 degree angles so that the projected light from the ceiling goes onto a foil, is reflected on to another and then into the air.

We worked it so it had a real catwalk feel and so that you could view it from both sides: you can see the models, the holograms and the public from both sides. It’s never been used this way before as the technology has just been used in the corporate world before, for sales presentations, and the visuals have always just been viewed from one side. So we set up two rigs instead.

The animations were done with standard CGI animation software but were made for a 15m by 2.5m screen. It’s all rendered in HD, too, so was quite demanding as it’s 30 frames per second. We worked on the whole thing, from storyboard through to the final render in just two and a half months. Bringing together Dvein and Vizoo gave us this unique, truly holographic, 3D motion graphic experience.”

If anyone has more in depth info i would love to know.

Chanel’s Mobile Exhibition Showroom

Zaha Hadid has designed this a mobile exhibition show room. It can fit loads of people in and adjust its internal climate whilst showing off the products. This type of traveling exhibition rings true with what I have read at trendwatching.com regarding pop up retail.

Best leave the description to Zaha:

The size of the Pavilion will be 29m x 45m, a total of 700sqm. The overall height is 6m, with the floor raised 1.00m above the existing ground surface. In light of the extensive shipping between cities, each structural segment will be a maximum of 2,25m wide.

The 65sqm central courtyard has large transparent openings to the sky above and is designed to host events as well as provide an area for reflection after visiting the exhibition. The courtyard serves as an intermediate space between the exhibition and a public area of the Pavilion. A 25sqm cloakroom is also provided.

You can read more indepth about it on her blog here

It's coming! Apple iPhone

"The first iPhone kiosk has gone up in Seattle. The display is looping a video of the UI, docks to charge your iPod while you drool over the video and “alarm sticker things.”

Prometeus - The Media Revolution

"Prometeus - The Media Revolution is popular future-forcasting clip buzzing round the web suggests that the internet revolution at the end of the last century will kill all old media as we know it by 2015 and by 2022 all of our 5 senses will be connected to virtual worlds and we'll be busy experiencing each others' memories."

Check it out!

Microsoft Surface

Microsoft have announced the launch of a new computer with table-top style touch-screen that recognizes objects placed on the surface and skips the traditional keyboard and mouse in favor of fingers on the screen.

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