Archive for the ‘interactive’ Category

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

Super Cilia Skin

Super Cilia Skin
Super Cilia Skin is a tactile and visual system inspired by the beauty of grass blowing in the wind. It consists of an array of computer-controlled actuators (cilia) that are anchored to an elastic membrane. These actuators represent information by changing their physical orientation. The current prototype...
October 27th, 2006 | feature, interactive | Read More

Sensitive Floor

Sensitive Floor
Sensitive Floor is an interactive video floor projection that reacts to the way people walk on it. Developed by iO Agency, this new media for physical spaces transforms mundane floors into arresting communication tools. Sensitive Floor adapts effortlessly to different contexts and needs, such as retail,...
July 21st, 2006 | interactive | Read More

Virtual Clay

Virtual Clay
You may soon be able to reach out and manipulate clay in cyberspace, thanks to a new tool for transmitting touch to the virtual world. “This technology will give product designers, or even artists, a tool that will allow them to touch, shape, and manipulate virtual objects just as they would with...
March 15th, 2006 | interactive | Read More

Plastic Logic

Plastic Logic
Plastic Logic develops licensable manufacturing solutions for printing thin and flexible active-matrix displays. When combined with an electronic-paper imaging film, Plastic Logic’s backplane technology enables highly portable, readable and power efficient displays. The initial application focus...
March 10th, 2006 | interactive | Read More
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