PERCH is a New York-based startup led by MIT-alum Jared Schiffman which is developing interactive retail displays that combine a variety of sensing technologies, digital displays, projections, physical product and digital content into a sleek consumer experience. Clearly reminiscent of the … Continue reading perch
Via Designboom.com, giant motion-activated media reacts to passersby in Washington DC office building. Project by ESI Design; see the original PR release here. Inside Terrell Place — an office building and civil rights landmark in downtown washington DC — ESI design … Continue reading motion activated media wall
Via Dezeen: Olympus Photography Playground “Swarm” installation by Austrian arts collective Neon Golden. I really appreciate seeing the “behind the scenes” video, too! Continue reading swarm
TeamLab is a Tokyo-based creative group with some strikingly beautiful interactive installations that make clever use of projection mapping and physical interaction. I’ve included just a few of my favorites, but check out their site to see their other amazing projects. … Continue reading teamlab
Via Core77: A very fun interactive installation from retail design firm Dalziel + Pow at the 2015 London Retail Design Expo. Daziel + Pow silk screened Bare Conductive ink and graphics onto a plywood wall surface and used the Ototo capactive touch … Continue reading dalziel + pow
IDEO designed and built a kinematic light sculpture called “Edison” at the Epiphany Hotel in Silicon Valley. The LED bulbs fluidly move up and down to abstractly depict various data feeds. IDEO Labs has a great blog post detailing the … Continue reading interactive light sculpture from IDEO
The potential of interns! Design firm IDEO challenged its summer interns to redesign ye olde light switch. Some very creative and impressive results followed in the “Let There Be Light” exhibition. Here is the PDF that documents the results: Let_There_Be_Light_Exhibit_IDEO Continue reading IDEO redesigns the light switch
Functionally useless, but a beautiful art form nonetheless…sort of like a Rube Goldberg machine for light paintings: Students at Carnegie Mellon University are using to create industrial light portraits: a massive robot, typically used for heavy-duty manufacturing, that paints with … Continue reading industrial light painting
Philips Design, Philips Large Luminous Surfaces, and Madrid-based Lighting Design Collective have teamed up to create two different “generative content” functions for the Philips Luminous Textiles product line. Wind Wall Here the platform uses algorithms driven by external triggers such as wind … Continue reading philips + lighting design collective launch “generative content” control system
Hive Systems is an interesting Dutch startup that is building software for simulating and controlling networks of interactive devices. I met their team after I presented at the GlowNext Symposium in Eindhoven (November 2013). Quoting their site: HiveKit is a … Continue reading hive systems
Coming soon: Combining the power of mobile apps with connected lighting, Philips Lighting is connecting Disney bedtime stories to color-changing ambient lighting. What a powerful natural combination: Disney has a long history of using show-control systems to create magical experiences … Continue reading philips + disney storylight
I recently found a fascinating and very detailed description of the design research and development process that led to the “Google Smart Lamp” demonstration, which was developed as a collaboration between Google and London design shop Berg. I originally posted about the … Continue reading google smart lamp: design process
Via Core77 – two more robotic desklamps! We’ve seen robotic desk lamps before (check out this post or this post) and I promise…someday, I’m totally going to build myself a robotic desk lamp!!!! I’m thinking maybe two — a boy robot desklamp on one side … Continue reading more robotic desk lamps!
Via a survey article from Gizmodo, here is a very interesting demo from the design firm Frog, showcasing some interesting UX simplifications that result from networking all the sensing (3D stereo vision cameras, microphones, etc.), displays (including ambient projections), devices … Continue reading room-e
Moment Factory recently published this interesting “featurette” piece on the making of several large multi-media and interactive installations at LAX. What really strikes me about this video is the intensive amount of effort required to produce first-rate architectural media installations. Most … Continue reading moment factory – lax international terminal
As I covered previously, Audi has been creating some fabulous new headlight designs. This round, they are exploiting one of the more exciting aspects of LED technology: The ability to use redundant LEDs within a single fixture to create something I … Continue reading audi matrix headlights
Smart Things is essentially a home-automation system. But what makes Smart Things special is that it makes great use of contemporary technologies such as smart phones, cheap sensors, the Zigbee/Z-Wave standards, and cloud connectivity to move Ye Olde home-automation from … Continue reading smart things
Via Engadget, a Microsoft Research concept that uses a projector to dynamically extend the action shown on a TV screen. Very interesting extension of the virtual world. Continue reading microsoft illumiroom concept
I really like the following workshop brief, for a 2012 parametric design workshop hosted by the University of Nicosia, in Cyprus. A couple of my favorite quotes: “Planet earth will don an electronic skin…when information technology becomes part of the social … Continue reading reactive vs. responsive
Via Designboom, a nice art project from New York-based media artist Aaron Sherwood that utilizes an interactive stretched-fabric wall. Firewall from Aaron Sherwood on Vimeo. From Designboom: made using processing, max/MSP, arduino and a kinect, the piece measures the average depth … Continue reading firewall
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