The concept of touching things such as light or smells isn't anything new, but there's so much room for interpretation that it's always interesting to see new applications. At Siggraph 2010, a new tactile display is being shown off which allows the user to feel light and shadow. Called Touch Light Through the Leaves, the device consists of a camera which detects light, and 85 vibration units, which have motors, process the light and shadow information into sensations. Check out the video below to see it in action.
Propellerhead's outdoor drum machine that was taken out "in the wild" at night in Stockholm, Sweden, for people to play with! There are two songs in the video, both of the demo tracks that ship with Reason 5.0. The first one is Polyform by Sharooz Raoofi and towards the end you hear a piece of Kretsloppstest by Adam Beyer & Cari Lekebusch. I especially like that the team used Phidgets to create this drum machine. Phidgets enable you to hook up a mix of digital or analog sensors to a USB interface. According to a post on Create Digital Music, the interface below was supported by a Phidget 8/8/8 interface hooked to a computer, and a force sensor under the pad. The team used a Phidget Voltage divider to make the scaling and calibration magic happen.
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Bron; www.fan.tv Wordt de Samsung Galaxy Tab de iPad-concurrent ?? Op de officiele introductie-video van Samsung is nog weinig te zien van hun Galaxy Tab die de strijd met Apple's iPad moet aangaan. Er is nu echter een Koreaans filmpje op internet verschenen waarin de Samsung Galaxy Tab uitgebreid wordt gedemonstreerd.
Het betreft wel een Galaxy Tab met een Koreaanse gebruikersinterface, maar dat neemt niet weg dat je een goed beeld krijgt van de tablet computer. Hieronder kun je beide video's bekijken.
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In a unique project that is as technologically challenging as it is visually arresting, Dataton WATCHOUT™ multi-display presentation and production system has been used to promote Samsung Electronics Australia’s latest generation of LED LiVE televisions throughout Australia.
When Samsung Electronics Australia and its Brand Experience Agency Jack Morton World Wide were looking for a way to promote the image quality of the company’s latest flat-screen TVs, they hatched (no pun intended) a plan to build a 6-metre tall giant hummingbird covered with TVs of various sizes and mounted at different angles.The idea was that the six-metre high hummingbird would be ‘flown’ above public areas across the country, offering an aesthetically stunning twist on contemporary digital advertising and signage techniques.
While the hummingbird’s stainless-steel infrastructure was being built by Concept Craft, the task of creating a solution for the playback of synchronized video content on the screens fell to Interactive Controls Pty Ltd. The company’s MD, Dean Stevenson takes up the story:
“In total there were 26 screens bolted onto the giant hummingbird, and we needed a way of mapping images across those screens. Because the whole motivation behind the project was to show off the quality of the screens, we had to do all this without compromising the images at all.
Remember back in the old days when holograms were the wave of the future? Sadly, those days are long gone, replaced by stereo 3D glasses and crappy movies shot in 3D HD.
Een documentare over Doctor Laser (Dr. Jason Sapan)
We don’t see this anywhere near enough – screens in public spaces that are large enough, and in sufficient numbers, that they visually demand viewer attention.South Africa-based DC Media has a nice video up about taking over the software for a media company that had invested what must have been a very substantial chunk of change to put up a set of 10 mammoth 103″ plasmas in the arrivals area of Cape Town’s international airport – time, no doubt, for the recent World Cup.
The premise of the post was that they had to come in and fix a remote management mess, which is a common story. Don’t know what was there before. Don’t care. But I do like an install people can’t help but notice. The video shows few people are stopping and staring at the things, but I doubt the media company or advertising brands expect that.
Een katapult waarmee je sms'jes tegen een digitaal scherm kunt schieten. Dat is de SMSlingshot, ontwikkeld door VR/Urban, onder het motto 'reclaim the screens'.
De SMSlingshot is een technisch hoogstandje, ontwikkeld door VR/Urban, een open collectief voor creatieve digitale interventies in publieke ruimtes. De houten katapult maakt gebruik van radiofrequentie, een microprocessor, laserpointer en batterijen.
De houten katapult is voorzien van een numeriek toetsenbord, waarop je een tekstberichtje kunt maken. Het berichtje kun je met de katapult 'afschieten' op een gevel waarop een projector is gericht. Daar verschijnt de tekst in een gekleurde 'splash'. VR/Uban maakt een wereldwijde tour langs digitale festivals, om de SMSlingshot te presenteren. Van 27 augustus tot en met 2 oktober is het een publiekstrekker op het International Media Facade Festival in Berlijn en Liverpool
The future of the coach-potato is looking up as new technology has surfaced that will allow you to move things using only the power of your mind.
Now you can turn the volume of your iPod up and close curtains by merely visualising these things happening. But what if you visualised someone dying, would it kill them? Something to think about.
Bluman Associates provides projection mapping on London's Marble Arch for 'The Gadget Show' The new series of Channel Five's 'The Gadget Show' has opened with a large guerrilla projection with architectural mapping techniques, masterminded by London consultancy Bluman Associates.
'Gadget Show' presenters went head to head in a challenge to find the best way to use new technologies to promote the new series. Jason Bradbury worked with Pod Bluman from Bluman Associates and Bruce Ferguson from The Darkroom to devise a high-impact event – using Marble Arch in central London as the backdrop for a projection sequence, based on the classic Space Invaders computer game of the 1970s – which would go on to become the subject of a viral video campaign. Bluman and Ferguson developed the content from Jason's brief, taking measurements of the Arch's dimensions in order to create the 3D effects and perspective. Bluman said, 'The key to really successful architectural projection mapping is the content design, developing a story that will work with the building. In this case, Jason identified the resemblance between the shape of Marble Arch and the Space Invader from the computer game of the 1970s. We had to make some tweaks to the original design, resulting in the creation of the ‘Gadgetvader’.'
