Cave-teknologi

IDEO Labs nye oppfinnelse, iCube, tar i bruk tre hvite vegger og et hvitt gulv for å skape en utrolig effektiv simulering. Sammenhengende, stereoskopiske bilder blir vist på de fire flatene. Brukeren må imidlertid ha på seg spesielle 3D-briller.



ITavisen | Se det utrolige 3D-rommet!

World Builder

RFID-iPhone

Kommunikasjonen mellom de fysiske objektene og iPhone-applikasjonen foregår ved hjelp av elektroniske, trådløse RFID-brikker (Radio Frequency Identification). En egen RFID-leser er koblet til mobiltelefonens bakside.


iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo.

At nettopp iPhone er valgt som hjernen i løsningen virker ikke tilfeldig.

- Apples kommende operativsystem for iPhone (iPhone 3.0) åpner for utvikling av ekstern maskinvare og RFID-leser vil kunne være integrert i neste generasjons iPhone, skriver Martinussen.

Norske forskere lager RFID-iPhone - digi.no : Personlig teknologi

Explore Rome through Augmented Reality

Visitors to the Allard Pierson Museum will get to partake in "A Future for the Past," a swiveling iMac superimposes buildings and text onto two large pictures/murals.

Via Engadget.

Edges

"Edges" is a computer driven light installation projected on the geometry of a room. The idea is to make the geometry and architecture dominate the projection. The projection serves the underlying structure, it's like writing a choreography for the architecture. There is no post production or visual effects in these videos, it`s just a video camera filming the light installation.

Edges

Art, Space and the Public Sphere(s).

Some basic observations on the difficult relation of public art, urbanism and political theory by Oliver Marchart

"Social space is produced and structured by conflicts. With this recognition, a democratic spatial politics begins." - Rosalyn Deutsche

As we know, "art in the public space" can mean at least two things. For one, art in combination with architecture and artistic urban outfitting; this is the traditional conception - among other things, a conception of space as a physical geographical urban and architectural space. Yet on the other hand, "public art" in the sense of more recent forms of "art in the public interest" (or "social interventionism", "community art", etc.) - not least in Austria - has also been developed into a secure niche in the canon of available art practices and forms. Sending Austrian artists, usually subsumed under this header, to the Biennale of Venice is just the keystone of sanctioning social interventionist art practices in art history (and could very well be their gravestone, too).

debalie: cultureel politiek debat centrum

Fortelle med rom

Hvordan forteller man en historie med rom? Da scenograf Bob Crowley lagde kostymer og kulisser til Verdis opera Don Carlos i operaen i høst, gjorde han middelalderens dystre Kong Filip II av Spania til medarkitekt.

Arkitektnytt

Transmitting Architecture

Marcos Novak on "Transmitting Architecture: The Transphysical City"

The history of invention alternates between advances of transport and advances of communication, that is to say from transmitting the subject to transmitting the sign and presence of the subject, establishing a symbiosis of vehicles and media that leads from antiquity all the way to the present. Mode after mode of expression or perception have yielded to being cast across greater and greater distances as agents of will and power. Signal, image, letter, sound, moving image, live sound, live image, sense and action, intersense and interaction, presence, interpresence, telepresence, all express our awareness of other and elsewhere, and underscore our will to interact with the sum of what we know to exist simultaneously with us, relativity's complexities notwithstanding.

CTheory.net

The Internet of things

Sometime between now and 2010, the internet is poised to reach beyond virtual space and take root in the physical world. According to many futurist thinkers, almost every object you can see around you carries the possibility of being connected to the internet. This means that your domestic appliances, your clothes, the books on your shelves and your car in the driveway may one day soon be assigned a unique IP address, just as both computers and web pages are assigned them today, to enable them to talk to each other.

In the past month, a coalition of big technology companies, Cisco, Ericsson and Sun Microsystems among them, have formed the Ipso (IP for Smart Objects) Alliance with the aim of shaping a set of standards for the coming internet of things. "We could incorporate internet protocol (IP) into nearly everything," enthuses Geoff Mulligan, chair of the Ipso Alliance. "There's no reason why the internet shouldn't be in every single appliance."

The next development of the net: the internet of things | Technology | The Guardian

Future Vision Montage

How will emerging technology improve our productivity in the years ahead? What opportunities will arise from evolving trends and global change? Microsoft has collaborated with customers, partners, and thought leaders across multiple disciplines to develop scenarios that explore how long-term trends, customer challenges, and emerging technologies might converge to improve our lives, both at work and home.

As you watch this video montage from 2009, look for examples of how current prototypes may evolve in the years ahead.

Future Vision Montage