Magnetic Appcessories

Tangible interface designer and inventor Andrea Bianchi, along with his colleague, Ian Oakley (University of Madeira / Carnegie Mellon Europe), have come with a novel approach to interacting with a mobile device. Using the magnetometer built into most modern smartphones, Bianchi and Oakley have created a series of tangible user interfacedemonstrations that go beyond what’s achievable with capacitive touch displays.

MAKE | Magnetic Appcessories with Andrea Bianchi

Kinetic Rain

Berlin firm ART+COM just completed this stunning new kinetic sculpture in Terminal 1 of Changi Airport in Singapore. Kinetic Rain consists of two sets of 608 suspended raindrops made from lightweight aluminum covered in copper which are raised and lowered in a 15-minute computationally designed choreography controlled from motors embedded in the ceiling. ART+COM created a similar though somewhat smaller piece for the BMW Museum in 2008.
Colossal

Projects inspired by ‘Immaterials: Light painting WiFi’

'Immaterials: Light painting WiFi' has spread across the internet and become a popular cultural phenomena over the last year. Today I want to write about a couple of other kinds of impact that the film and the visualisations have created. We have observed the concepts, arguments and visual language being taken up and interpreted as new and derivative work by other practitioners. This points to a different sort of cultural propagation: the spectacle of the film created a momentum that has driven others to re-interpret, re-create and extend the work in many different directions.

YOUrban

'Appmates' toys that work with new iPad app

Disney's next big iPad app? There are toy cars for that. The entertainment company has unveiled a new range of physical toys called Appmates, which will be used to interact with apps on Apple's tablet.

The first Disney brand to get the Appmates treatment is Pixar's Cars. There will be six toy cars sold in packs of one or two for £12.99 and £19.99 respectively, which go on sale in October. They will be sold in Disney's physical stores and on its website, as well as in Apple's real-world and online stores.

The companion iPad app will be free to download. It includes a mode for children who don't own one of the physical toys (or at least don't have one to hand).



guardian.co.uk

Precision in Movement

Move-skjorten, som er full av sensorer som registrerer dine kropps-bevegelser. I kombinasjon med en iOS-app måles bevegelser i fire strekk- og bøysensorer i rygg, fronten og på sidene.



Appen, som kjøres på en iPhone eller iPad samtidig, fanger opp sensor-informasjonen og tar denne opp slik at du kan gå tilbake siden for å se hvordan helhets-ytelsen var.

Og for å hjelpe deg underveis sender appen sanntids-tilbakemeldinger til antrekket. Via elektriske komponenter i hofte- og skulderpartiet får brukeren en haptisk feedback slik at bevegelser kan korrigeres og tilpasses.

Utviklerene ser for seg at denne teknologien vil kunne anvendes blant annet innen yoga og pilates, som er veldig presisjons-drevet. I tillegg kan golfere forbedre swingen sin. Eller den kan anvendes som en del av fysikalsk terapi.

Move: Precision in Movement

100 ganger mer presis enn Kinect

I klippet under kan du se hva en presisjon på 0.01 mm. gjør når man faktisk bruker teknologien, og ikke bare ser på en haug tall. Produktet er en liten USB-dings med sensorer og kameraer som fungerer sammen med Leap Motions egenutviklede programvare.



Selskapet gir i disse dager utviklerne demo-kits og en SDK-pakke. Lanseringen av flerbrukerversjon ventes allerede tidlig neste år til en relativt utrolig god pris: 70 dollar (rundt 400 kroner).

Kilde: ITavisen

Patterned by Nature

Patterned by Nature was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (naturalsciences.org) for the newly built Nature Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. 10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, this sculptural ribbon winds through the five story atrium of the museum and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD glass. It runs on roughly 75 watts, less power than a laptop computer. Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass.

Google utvikler Internett-brille

«Project Glass» fra prosjektgruppen Google[x]. Brillen er fortsatt bare en prototyp, men består av en liten skjerm foran øyet som kan vise alt du i dag kan se på en smarttelefon, lagt oppå virkeligheten.

Funksjonene Google nå viser frem, er alt man er kjent med fra en smarttelefon: Klokke, kalender, værmelding, tekstmeldinger, (video-)samtaler, kart, reiseinformasjon, foto og stedsinformasjon.

En av Googles argeste rivaler, Apple, jobber også med teknologi man kan ha på kroppen, skriver New York Times.

Kilde: Aftenposten

“No digital natives but the devices themselves”

There are no digital natives but the devices themselves; no digital immigrants but the devices too, James Bridle writes. He extracted a history of 35,801 latitude/longitude codes from his iPhone after discovering in April 2011 that iPhones store location data without the users’ knowledge. He then plotted the geocodes onto a map for each day and published it as a book, Where the f**k was I.

jill/txt

Interaktive plakater

Her ser du hvordan det som kan bli fremtidens plakater fungerer:



Kilde: Diginfo.tv

Augmented Identities

In the following video from a company called TAT, you can see a prototype of an AR mobile solution.

www.tat.se/videos/



Via Jordi Linares' blog

Lady Gaga uses Sonic Notify - the inaudible QR code for smartphones

She’s known for her trendy music and being on the cutting edge of fashion, but Lady Gaga has also been pioneering a sonic technology that’s set to transform experiences at live events.

At her Monsters Ball tour she deployed a product made by U.S start-up Sonic Notify that transmits a signal to the smartphones of audience members that can then link them to various websites and images – and even give them the chance to vote for the encore song.

The signal is cleverly embedded within a song or an audio track of some sort, and picked up by the Sonic Notify app.

It's a bit like a sonic version of a QR code - a scannable barcode used on some adverts that customers can read with their smartphones to access offers and more information.

The app was developed as a result of band MGMT’S record label, Cantora Records, opening a technology division and offering finance to promising start-ups.


Mail Online

Hand from above

Via New Media Artworks: Prequels to Everyday Life

Rimi klare for nye skjermer

Denne uken lanserer JCDecaux sitt nye digitale nettverk på T-banen i Oslo. Totalt 194 skjermer på Oslos ni største T-banestasjoner kalles Digital Metro Panels – DMP. En av de første annonsørene ut er Rimi som lanserer sin 2.0 versjon av sin handle-applikasjon. Med å gjenskape en Rimi-butikk på perrongen.

I kampanjen benyttes bl.a. en kombinasjon av DMP-skjermene og store bannere på perrong. Kampanjen sikter mot å involvere de reisende til å skanne ulike varer via QR kode. Bak kampanjen står reklamebyrået McCann og mediebyrået IUM.

Utendørskampanjen er delt inn i tre deler:

1. På de digitale skjermene får de reisende demonstrert hvordan de kan skanne varer med Rimi Pluss
2. De store bannerne er en Rimi Pop Up store hvor de reisende kan starte handleturen ved å skanne varer
3. For å gjøre det enklere å laste ned Rimi Pluss, har vi tilrettelagt for gratis WIFI er tilrettelagt på perrongene

Propaganda

LevelHead

LevelHead is a spatial memory game by Julian Oliver.

levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.