Danish Video design agency Vizoo created a full length holographic display to acompany and interact with models at Diesels fashion show.
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09NovHolographic Catwalk
12JunConversation Clock
I’ve been away for a bit, but found some things of interest on my travels. I got this one from a cafe paper in Vietnam.
This table is a project created by the students at UIUC to give peoples conversations visual representation. Microphones record an ongoing conversation, graphing the audio in concentric rings, differentiating voices by color. The further inward the rings, the further back in the conversation. Patterns reveal themselves such as individual people not speaking, interrupting, dominating, etc. Arguments and group silences become immediately tangible. A projector displays the data on a table in front of the participants. Continue reading ‘Conversation Clock’
15FebopenFrameworks
made with openFrameworks from openFrameworks on Vimeo.
Sony has recreated a ten tonne version of a 19th century moving image device to celebrate the lauch of ‘motionflow technology’ found in thier new Bravia range. Massive crowds turned out in Venaria’s Piazza to see individual shots of Kaka performing a cross drop assembled in sequence within the giant spinning dome.
17DecGestureTek
Interactive booth designed by Imagination for Shell at the Dubai Airshow.
If you look closely you can see a small black dot pointing out diagonally from the top of the white unit (centre-bottom). This is one of two infared cameras positioned on each side to create an invisible tracking area above. Finger movements are recognised like a ‘mouse’ or ‘pointer’, giving the user control over what happens onscreen as part of an interactive experience. Media content is back projected from the base via a series of mirrors onto a glass screen applied with a rear projection film. Continue reading ‘GestureTek’
Sky Ear is a one-night event in which a glowing “cloud” of mobile phones and helium balloons is released into the air so that people can dial into the cloud and listen to the sounds of the sky.
The cloud is built on a non-rigid carbon-fibre lattice, embedded with one thousand glowing helium balloons and several dozen mobile phones.
Each balloon contains 6 ultra-bright LEDs (which mix to make millions of colours). The balloons can communicate with each other via infra-red; this allows them to send signals to create larger patterns across the entire cloud as they respond to the electromagnetic environment. People using phones at ground level can also influence its colour by calling into the cloud (flying up to 100m above them). They are able to listen to distant natural electromagnetic sounds of the sky (including whistlers and spherics). The action of callingthe cloud causes disturbances in the electromagnetic fields andfeedbackwithin thesensor network creating ripples of light remioniscent of rumbling thunder and flashes of lightning.
For full archive infromation, including photos, videos and development process please see the event website
This is one of the more interesting uses for Corian that I have seen. Embedding two trackpads and 2,400 LEDs into the surface of this dinning table gives it a secondary use as the 1972 retro classic game Pong. It’s perhaps one of the most expensive reincarnations of Pong, as Corian can cost anything between £500-£2000 per sqm.
I was going to try and explain this, but the video does it much better.
San Francisco’s Temple, Rotterdam’s Watt and London’s Surya are all eco-nightclubs that already feature piezoelectric dance floors that supposedly generate around half of the buildings electricity. There are some who are sceptical about these claims, however most believe it is a technology with real possibilities that will become a valuable weapon in sustainable designs arsenal.
Additional uses for Piezo:
Yusuke Obuchi’s phenomenal Wave Garden
Self-sufficient Train Station ticket gates
For more detailed information click here
