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.
Walt-Disney’s ecofriendly movie Trilli is to premier in a pavilion made from recycled plastic.
Designed by Riccardo Giovanetti, the pavilion’s purpose is to explore the qualities of plastic and other recyclables for children. Seating is arranged in the centre for viewing the film and waist high educational stations are positioned around the edge. The molecular arrangement of the circular plastic disks gives it a transparent quality. This makes the internal exhibition visible from far away and therefore inviting, whilst providing the sense of intimacy required for the interior.
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.
The Festival of Stars in Gdansk (Poland) was treated to a special visit this year. An art project conceived by established New York artist Peter Coffin lead to hundreds of bemused onlookers.
Cinimod Studio was hired to realise the project, and produced an innovative structural, technical and electrical design and oversaw the fabrication and assembly.
The overall UFO structure is 7 metres in diameter and manufactured of aluminium for lightness. 3000 bright and individually controllable Color Kinetics LED nodes have been arrayed across the structure and are controlled via a solid state computer. An on board 6 kw generator provides the system power, and the overall UFO can be remotely controlled via SMS messaging.
