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Angry Birds: A Tangible Slingshot Controller
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...Stanley: The Tweet Powered Interactive Piano
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...Audi City: Digital Car Showroom of The Future
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...Goertz: The Augmented Reality Shoe Store
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...IKEA: The 2013 Interactive Catalogue App
19. July 2012
Here’s a nice move from IKEA to add some interactivity to their catalogues. This video shows a preview of their new app that will bring the IKEA catalogue to life with a collection of additional content for viewers. Users can download the IKEA app and use it to unlock videos, interactive experiences, photo galleries and [...]
Continue reading...V Motion Project: Music Video powered by Kinect
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...LEGO Star Wars: Builders of Sound Installation
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...Delite-O-Matic: The Ultimate Sampling Machine
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...Kinetic Rain: A Dynamic Art Installation
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...Google Chrome Web Lab Experiments
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 [...]
Continue reading...Australian Defence Force: Mobile Medic App
26. June 2012
Less of an ad and more of a test, this is the latest recruitment campaign for the Australian Defence Force, called Mobile Medic – and it just won 4x Gold and many more silver/bronze at Cannes Lions 2012. A mobile app that challenges you to diagnose the patient in the ad through the Mobile Medic [...]
Continue reading...Ford Keyfree App: Auto Login To Everything
18. June 2012
Now this is brilliant. Ford has introduced KeyFree technology into their range of cars, and to showcase this, they have come up with a fantastic app that works much like their KeyFree technology for cars, but for your entire social web of sites… Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Skype .etc Once you install the app on your [...]
Continue reading...Vimeo Award Winning Films 2012
16. June 2012
The second-ever Vimeo Awards were held this week over in New York City. The award ceremony showcased the world’s best videos from Vimeo and their creators. The evening was hosted by Reggie Watts and Beardyman, see some highlights in the video above. Listed below is the collection of the winning entires, it’s a fantastic mix [...]
Continue reading...Billboard: “Guitar Pee” Musical Toilet Installation
12. June 2012
I’ve seen “pee” challenges before, like the one in Amsterdam we posted a few weeks back, but this takes it to a whole new level… Introducing Guitar Pee Mpee3′s, user-generated MP3 tunes that are created on a highly customised toilet, designed as a makeshift guitar, complete with string-type-elements in the urinal which control a real [...]
Continue reading...Tourism British Columbia: The Vending Machine
10. June 2012
I’m a huge fan of vending machine installations, the last one we posted a week or so back “Rugbeer” was one of my favourites, and this new one from Tourism British Columbia is creating some huge buzz for very different reasons… Perhaps the ultimate vending machine, Tourism British Columbia placed a giant, 14-foot tall, 10-foot [...]
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