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Google BikeAround: Street View For Alzheimers
Meet Anne-Christine Hertz, a Swedish inventor who works at Health Technology Centre of Halland. Today, she shares a story of how the Centre used Google Street View to invent a device that helps the elderly with Alzheimer’s. Every three seconds someone develops dementia, a condition that creates disability and dependency among many elderly people around [...]
Continue reading...Introducing Snapchat Spectacles: Smart Glasses
Sunday, September 25, 2016
So Snapchat is becoming a camera company. Or so they say, with the launch of “Snapchat Spectacles” a new smart glasses product that lets users instantly snap 10 second videos straight from the glasses that are soon to go on sale for about $130 a pair. It’s a pretty big play for Snapchat, and while [...]
Continue reading...DuoSkin: Tattoo Style On-Skin Interfaces
Monday, August 15, 2016
MIT have teamed up with Microsoft Research Labs to create “DuoSkin” a new type of functional on-skin interface and control device that can control digital interactions on screens, or have a computer control the look of the on-skin patch… Almost Tattoo like, this new style of temporary skin based art, allows almost anyone to create [...]
Continue reading...Volkswagen: The Human Crossing
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
In the UAE, most drivers ignore zebra crossings on a daily basis. So it’s no surprise that 20% of all road accidents in the United Arab Emirates involve pedestrians, often resulting in fatalities. So Volkswagen created “The Human Crossing” to make our roads a little more human (and safe), reminding drivers that pedestrians aren’t invisible [...]
Continue reading...Syrmo: Welcome To Connected Skateboarding
Monday, May 16, 2016
Syrmo is a new connected “Smart Pad” that skateboarders attach to the trucks on their skateboards, it has a bunch of sensors that track every movement of the skateboard, connecting live to an App on their smartphones and records all the tricks in a real-time 3D space. So skaters can re-live their tricks and share [...]
Continue reading...Watch The New Leap Motion “Orion” VR Demo
Monday, February 22, 2016
Introducing the new Leap Motion “Orion”, where truly immersive VR starts with your hands. Built from the ground up for virtual reality, Orion is a massive step forward for Leap Motion capability, lower latency, longer range, better and faster hand recognition, vastly improved robustness to cluttered backgrounds and ambient light, and more. Check out this [...]
Continue reading...Survios: Immersive Virtual Reality Game Demo
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Welcome to Survios, with $4m in funding, this is perhaps the world’s most immersive 360 degree, virtual reality first person shooter game, where you become the player in the game in almost actual reality, complete with hand-held controls so you can light-sabre, sword, shoot or bow-and-arrow people at will. Twisting, turning, jumping and just about [...]
Continue reading...HaptoClone: Holograms That You Can Touch
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Imagine a world of Holograms that you can physically touch! Imagine shaking a friend’s hand or reaching out to pass them a gift? Well a group of haptics and hologram researchers from the University of Tokyo’s Department of Complexity Science and Engineering (DCSE) have brought this prototype to life. Inventing “Haptoclone”. Quite simply, an interactive [...]
Continue reading...Forever 21: Instagram Powered Thread Screen
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Forever 21 have stepped up to the plate with a new Instagram Powered Thread Screen, which in short, is a huge machine made of 200,000 parts, weighing 2,000 lbs, and taking over a year and half to engineer and build (all by hand). With the massive machine displaying users Instagrams 24 hours a day, with [...]
Continue reading...The Climate Portal: Weather Simulation Booths
Sunday, June 14, 2015
If you’ve ever wondered what the weather was like at your next destination while waiting for a flight, well, now you won’t have to with a new installation at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, called “The Climate Portal”. An installation that simulates a range of weather conditions. The installation, created by the guys at Akestam Holst, brings [...]
Continue reading...Shadow WiFi: Preventing Skin Cancer
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Skin Cancer is one of the world’s fastest growing diseases, and in Playa Agua Dulce, Peru, they’ve created an installation to help prevent it… Shadow WiFi, a large structure placed on beaches with a directional WiFi broadcast so that the free WiFi area moved in line with the shadow from the structure, and anyone left [...]
Continue reading...Shell Creates ‘Player’ Powered Football Field
Friday, September 12, 2014
In the Favela’s of Rio, Shell’s #MakeTheFuture program has just unveiled a soccer pitch that is powered by the players foot steps, powering the lights at night so the local community can play their most loved game, 24 hours a day without the reliance on paid electricity. Created with the famous Pavegen impact/power tiles that [...]
Continue reading...Heart Bot: An Experimental Drawing Machine
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Meet ‘Heart Bot’ an experimental drawing machine created by Intel, SMS Audio and Sid Lee as a digital art installation for guests at the Intel ‘Biosport’ headphones launch at The New Museum in NYC. Heart Bot is an experimental machine controlled by the heart rate of its audience. Interactive with the experimental drawing machine was [...]
Continue reading...Saatchi & Saatchi NDS: Feel The Reel Experience
Sunday, August 17, 2014
If you weren’t in Cannes this year or just didn’t get a chance to make it to the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase, then you missed out on a pretty cool experience, and that’s not just because there was some great film shown, but because the audience became the experiment in 2014. Each person [...]
Continue reading...JIBO: The World’s First Family Robot
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Meet JIBO, a real-life social robot that might just change the way you think smart objects and how you’d picture them in your home. And ok sure, this is a concept video, making it seem so fluid and responsive, so there is much to be desired, but… Will this be a robot that people would [...]
Continue reading...ASICS: The Remote Volleyball Cannon Challenge
Monday, July 28, 2014
ASICS have become famous over the last few years for creating interactive installations to engage fans and athletes in new and interesting ways to promote the brand. The latest installation is called ‘The Kerri Cannon’ which is a remote-operated spiking machine built to replicate the power and accuracy of top professional female players like Kerri [...]
Continue reading...Nokia Lumia: 180 Degree Camera Arc Experience
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Nokia are famous for small films shot on their Lumia phones, and here’s the latest one called ‘Living Moments – Multi Lumia Arc of Wonder’ where they’ve taken a contraption featuring 50 Nokia Lumia phones, formed in an Arc, synced to take more than 30,000 images across Manhattan, including areas such as Union Square, Allen [...]
Continue reading...Beck’s Beer: World’s First Playable Music Posters
Monday, May 19, 2014
Check out these playable music posters from Beck’s Beer, where they’ve hooked up conductive ink to sensors and speakers in each posters, allowing it to come to life with each touch of the poster. While Beck’s are claiming it’s a world first, it’s probably not, there was the spotify one, plus this playable sonic poster [...]
Continue reading...The Social Swipe: Charity Donation Billboard
Monday, May 5, 2014
This is a cool Interactive Charity Donation Billboard, it’s called ‘The Social Swipe’ and it places a dual screen billboard at the centre of the equation, through the middle runs a credit card swipe reader, which instantly turns credit card donation swipes into synced video on the screens. It’s a cool way to get people [...]
Continue reading...Coca-Cola ‘Recycling’ Happiness Arcade Machine
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Just in time for Cannes, comes the Coca-Cola ‘Recycling’ Happiness Arcade Machine, where you pay for a game, with an empty bottle, to encourage people to recycle in Dakar, a city of 15 million people. The campaign is designed to show that recycling can be fun, while highlighting the serious issues of rubbish and the [...]
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