Just when you thought people were getting over Angry Birds, comes this, a super cool, force feedback USB controller for Angry Birds that literally simulates the feeling of a slingshot and comes complete with a TNT activation plunger. And as you can see, everything is controlled by the slingshot, you can control the power, the [...]
Continue reading...11. August 2012
From Digitalarti Labs comes this very cool Water Light Graffiti Installation. It’s basically an interactive surface made of tens of thousands of LED’s that are illuminated by the contact of water or moisture, meaning that you can draw with just about anything, water pistols, paint brushes, a wet hand or a moist cloth… The Water [...]
Continue reading...6. August 2012
We haven’t posted a projection mapping event for a little while, so this timely piece from Gillette is perfect, combining a series of various projections onto buildings, walls and ultimately on water, to wish TEAM USA luck at the Olympics, just as the world finished watching the Opening Ceremony. A spectacle of light and water [...]
Continue reading...1. August 2012
It’s summer. The London Olympics are on and Selfridges are hosting Nike’s House of Innovation. What’s the Nike House of Innovation? Well, it’s a very cool brand experience that is made up of a handful of challenges, exhibitions and environments that converge the physical and digital retail space for “everyday athletes” as they compete against [...]
Continue reading...29. July 2012
So you’ve probably heard that Google is launching its own Fibre network in Kansas City, well here it is, with Google starting to ramp up information around the massive project, starting with this video, Introducing Google Fiber: The Next Chapter of the Internet, upping Internet speeds by upto 100x. The installation is of course real, [...]
Continue reading...28. July 2012
For Dutch people wanting to score tickets to the London Olympics to cheer their country, here’s your best chance yet with “Up! Holland Up!”. Volkswagen have created a sound/scream powered car and are giving you the chance to post your fastest 100m sprint time for the chance to win tickets. Volkswagen have removed the all [...]
Continue reading...24. July 2012
Check out Stanley, the world’s very first tweet powered interactive Piano! As a connected object, Stanley is reliant on the us to activate him, all by a simple tweet to @StanleyPiano, upon which he will swing into action as he works through the song requests of the twittersphere, playing them via a host of mechanics [...]
Continue reading...23. July 2012
The new Audi City ‘Digital Showroom’ has been around for a few days now, but weirdly hasn’t had the traction I expected it to get with just over 10,000 views on YouTube so far. But when you do look at this, it’s brilliant, a new form of retail experience for a car brand, one that [...]
Continue reading...22. July 2012
My obsession with the convergence of the physical and digital world’s seems to be catching on! Ok, I didn’t create the trend, but I sure got in early and we now see a tonne of convergence pieces here at Digital Buzz. And this one, to showcase a new TV series called ‘Perception’ in NYC, is [...]
Continue reading...21. July 2012
How does a German online shoe store grab some attention in the real world? Well, a virtual shoe fitting installation makes sense right? Yep, here it is, the Virtual Shoe Fitting Store from Goertz, an Augmented Reality, Microsoft Kinect powered installation that is plugged into a giant screen, then rolled out as virtual shoe stores [...]
Continue reading...12. July 2012
Energy drink V has added a new piece to it’s recently launched ‘V Motion Project’ with this music video, created from body movements, over in New Zealand. They created this piece by hacking the Kinect motion tracking software and integrated it with audio production software, The V Motion Project created a tool that could transform [...]
Continue reading...10. July 2012
LEGO and Star Wars fans will love this. I saw this on an award board at Cannes this year and thought it was a genius idea, and the LEGO ‘Builders of Sound’ installation that celebrates the first 3D episode of Star Wars literally is. Comprised of a huge barrel organ containing over 20,000 individual LEGO [...]
Continue reading...8. July 2012
This has to be one of the very best vending machines I’ve ever seen. And trust me, I’d know, I’ve got somewhat of a vending machine posting fetish, some sort of modern-retro-coolness kinda of crush on these things, and the near limitless ideas they can spawn. And here, in Australia, comes the Delite-O-Matic, a seemingly [...]
Continue reading...8. July 2012
This signature art installation in the Departure-Check-in hall of Terminal 1 at Singapore Airport might just depict modern beauty, a computer controlled, floating set of copper raindroplets called ‘Kinetic Rain’. Created in two installations beside the entry escalators, each consisting of 608 rain droplets made of lightweight aluminum covered with copper, hanging from steel thread, [...]
Continue reading...3. July 2012
As Google continues it’s Chrome Experiments, we’ll now be lucky enough to see them in the flesh with a year-long public exhibition at the Science Museum in London. The Chrome Web Lab Installations can be interacted with by anyone, anywhere at at the Chrome Web Lab Site. The Lab is made up of 5 Chrome [...]
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12. August 2012
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