A staged elevator prank, but a very cool installation. LG has hijacked an office elevator, removed the floor, replaced it with a whole bunch of their new IPS monitors which are triggered by sensors to display a virtual floor falling out of the elevator, exposing the shaft and an almost certain fall to death! An [...]
Continue reading...15. October 2012
A tad weird, but cool all the same… The Ideogenetic Machine is an interactive application that incorporates portraits of participants into an algorithmically generated comic book in real time. The comic is created live through custom software using portraits of participants captured with the installations camera and matches it to a database of drawings by [...]
Continue reading...13. October 2012
Nissan Canada have launched a multi-city water projection mapping event campaign to celebrate the new 2013 Nissan Altima, strategically timed with the Canada Day holiday. The 3D projecting mapping installation was experienced on a 120ft water wall pumped with 3300 litres of water per minute into the air to create the perfect screen for the [...]
Continue reading...9. October 2012
Here is the latest ‘Happiness’ project from Coca-Cola, this time from Korea, where a huge interactive dancing vending machine was created, rewarding people who completed the tasks with free drinks, the harder the challenge the more free coke people scored! At first glance, it’s a pretty robust game, powered by a Microsoft Kinect with image [...]
Continue reading...5. October 2012
Strongbow claims to have created the world’s very first digital bottle top with their new ‘StartCap‘ installations, where opening bottles of Strongbow triggers unexpected things on-premise in bars and at events. It’s powered by RFID, with the bottle caps triggering/connecting the RFID signal as they are opened, which is in turn picked up by RFID [...]
Continue reading...2. October 2012
We’ve seen a whole bunch of robots over the last year, most notably the street art robot car from Chevvy Sonic… And now we have the Sleep Art Robot from Ibis Hotels, which transforms your sleeping patterns into physical ones in the form of real art, paint on canvas. The robot uses movement, sound and [...]
Continue reading...25. September 2012
Imagine if you could have hot popcorn perfectly shot into catching distance at the sound of your voice… That might be a weird thought, but hey, lets give it a crack! Introducing the ‘Popinator’ a fully automated, voice activated, popcorn throwing machine that is able to pinpoint where in the room the voice originated from, [...]
Continue reading...20. September 2012
21 Swings is an exercise in musical cooperation. The installation offers a fresh look at the idea of cooperation and the notion that we can achieve more together than separately, so a giant instrument made of 21 musical swings was created; each swing in motion triggers different notes, and all the swings together compose a [...]
Continue reading...19. September 2012
Nurf Gun Wars are pretty big here at VML in Sydney, so we were a tad jealous to see the guys from Nieman Labs beat us to a social controlled Nurf Gun Game converged with an interactive version of the classic Duck Hunt, where Nurf bullets are tracked and scored against the software version of [...]
Continue reading...11. September 2012
So you’re a pedestrian, standing at a busy intersection, waiting to cross the road… Boring right? Well, not any more. Introducing StreetPong, which is creating urban interactions between random strangers on opposite sides of the road! The game screen shows how long the traffic lights have before changing colour, and when the lights change to [...]
Continue reading...5. September 2012
This is a very different kind of projection mapping installation, in that it starts out as a hypermatrix, thousands of individually controlled cubes that move in sequence to create objects and animation. This movement is then integrated into a projection mapping experience to bring to life the Hyundai Motor Group installation at the 2012 Yeosu [...]
Continue reading...2. September 2012
In a 190m2 three-dimensional LED surface stands the Audi Urban Future Concept with the upcoming A2. The dynamic surface demonstrates how the future of connected cars will automatically interact with the typical city infrastructure of tomorrow. The installation features a real-time graphics engine and the tracking software, which receives live input from 11 Xbox Kinect [...]
Continue reading...20. August 2012
An experiment into the future of the Audi brand experience created the ‘Audi Spheres’ project, an experiential installation in Copenhagen that allowed people to experience the Audi brand through technology via augmented reality video pads, giant video walls and interactive spherical displays among others, whilst each physical sphere represented one of Audi’s future brand priorities; [...]
Continue reading...15. August 2012
Let’s just say this isn’t your typical pavilion at a sporting event. This is Nike’s version, an 8 month brand experience project aimed to create the feeling of being ‘fast’ and I suggest, ‘fast’ is exactly what they made! The Nike Camp Victory Olympic Pavilion at the 2012 London games was setup in the middle [...]
Continue reading...13. August 2012
Perhaps the new Volvo has so much hidden technology or maybe because the they just wanted to create some extra buzz at the show, either way, the Volvo X-Ray App that was released at the Geneva Auto Show is a pretty cool way for potential customers to look under the skin of the new Volvo [...]
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23. October 2012
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