Archive for the ‘interactive’ Category

Body Brush

Body Brush
Body Brush is a real-time body-driven immersive experience. It captures spatial human motion data and transforms it into a rich variety of 3D visual forms that are visualized through a stereo projector and has 3D sound. The Body Brush process is achieved with the development of a low-cost computer-vision–based...
September 10th, 2009 | feature, interactive | Read More

Fabcell

Fabcell
Fabcell is a chameleonlike fabric that changes color when conducting an electric charge. Developed by Dr. Akira Wakita’s Information Design Laboratory at Keio University in Japan, Fabcell is a flexible, nonemissive fabric made of fibers dyed with liquid-crystal ink and conductive yarns. These materials...
September 4th, 2009 | feature, interactive | Read More

Interactive Shop Window

Interactive Shop Window
Designed by Sensing Places’s Flavia Sparacino, the Interactive Shop Window is an installation driven by the movement of people walking in the street. The setup includes a large and bright LCD (or LED) display placed inside the shop window facing outside towards the street. A wide-angle video camera...
August 22nd, 2009 | interactive | Read More

PixelSkin01

PixelSkin01
Developed by Sachin Anshuman of Orangevoid, PixelSkin01 is an intelligent cladding system intended to bring information display technology to light transmitting building facades. Conventional visual communication, such as advertising, obscures light and views for building occupants when applied to the...
August 14th, 2009 | feature, interactive | Read More

Paravision

Paravision
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is an automated identification process based on the storage and retrieval of data using transponders or RFID tags. These tags are often associated with objects that may be quickly inventoried, such as product palettes, library materials, or passports. Keio University...
August 3rd, 2009 | interactive | Read More

Low Rez LED Net

Low Rez LED Net
Low Rez LED Net is part of a custom-built interactive public art installation consisting of a series of double-sided LED “nets” capable of producing video imagery and animated text. Each net is made up of approximately 8,000 double-sided LED pixels suspended on a cable-net system. The pixels are...
July 20th, 2009 | feature, interactive | Read More

Bubble Screen

Bubble Screen
The Bubble Screen is a dot-matrix display that uses air bubbles as pixels. Developed by Eyal Burstein at Beta Tank, this display can show images, text, and patterns and may be used as a low-resolution screen. The project required two years of development during which experts in the fields of automation,...
September 20th, 2007 | feature, interactive | Read More

Multi-Touch Interaction

Multi-Touch Interaction
While touch-sensitive screens commonly work for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously,...
June 9th, 2007 | interactive | Read More

Optical Camouflage

Optical Camouflage
While new high-performance, light-transmitting materials such as aerogel and light-transmitting concrete compel us to question the nature of solidity, a new technology developed by the University of Tokyo seeks to make matter disappear altogether. Scientists at the Tachi Laboratory have developed Optical...
January 21st, 2007 | feature, interactive | Read More

Pileus

Pileus
Researchers with Keio University’s Okude Laboratory have developed an unlikely platform to showcase content from the burgeoning image website Flickr. Pileus, also known as the Flickr Umbrella, downloads and projects still-image and video content in real time from Flickr or other websites using...
November 25th, 2006 | interactive | Read More