Sony presented a beautiful installation called “Affinity in Autonomy” that explored future relationships with robotics of various sorts. The installation was beautifully conceived, using both darkness and luminous splashes of vivid blended-pastel colors to create a wonderful experiential sequence. But … Continue reading milan 2019: sony’s affinity in autonomy
The investment conglomerate Investindustrial created a massive 4,000 sqm presence for its newly organized Design Holding portfolio of companies, including Flos, B&B Italia, and Louis Poulsen. Most impressive was a beautiful interactive entryway installation. Depicting fun caricatures of the famous … Continue reading milan 2019: design holding – interactive installation
Wiliot is a spin-out tech startup based in San Diego and Israel that has developed a small Bluetooth chip that can power itself by harvesting energy from common wireless signals. The chip can be connected directly to certain types of … Continue reading wiliot
Boston-based interactive design firm Sosolimited recently installed a public art piece at the Charleston Navy Yard on the tip of Constitution Wharf. According to their press release: ● Custom software collects data in real time from National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration … Continue reading sosolimited – tidal light
Limbic Media is a startup based in British Columbia that is developing real time, interactive lighting controls. Their first product is a sound-activated, predictive control system called “Aurora” with intelligent “AI” learning functions. Beyond their initial product based on audio … Continue reading limbic media
Seeper is a British studio that specializes in experience creation. Check out their very interesting work ranging from attractions to events to digital experience R&D. I love their catch-line: “Our mission is to create awe + wonder by designing and … Continue reading seeper
Lightact is a very interesting lighting and media control system. There are bunch of features baked into the system that are quite state-of-the-art, such as: Native 3D visualization Control of lighting, video and audio Real time rendering, particle and image … Continue reading lightact
Soso Limited is a Boston-based firm developing interactive lighting experiences and data visualization projects. Founded by a few MIT kids, they have a pretty cool portfolio of projects with various methods of social media interaction, for example some novel ways … Continue reading soso
XYZT: Abstract Landscapes is a digital art installation by Lyon-based designers Adrien M & Claire B. The exhibition fuses together some spectacular interactive digital animations with well-executed projection and sensing technologies with a beautiful minimalist black and white color palette. The … Continue reading xyzt: abstract landscapes
What happens when you make the playing court a gigantic media screen, and add in precision player tracking? From AKQA, this is actually a couple years old already… Continue reading nike rise 2.0
An interesting concept from design student Xinyue Yang, via Core77. Although I love the exploration of new ways to interact with lighting, I’m not sure about blowing as a consistent or practical method. But I like the look of these. Continue reading breeze lamp
Nexmosphere is an Eindhoven-based startup/spinoff that is developing a technology platform for interactive experiences in “bricks’n’morter” retail environments. To quote their site: Nexmosphere develops products that enable a rich and intuitive shopping experience that will change the way we shop. … Continue reading nexmosphere
Tangible Interactions is a Vancouver-based studio that creates interactive installations for a variety of events, art pieces and corporate branding. Check out their site – lots of cool projects. Continue reading tangible interactions
Naked Approach is a Finnish research consortium that is focused on exploring a “Nordic perspective to gadget‐free hyperconnected environments.” To quote their site: In our vision, the digital surroundings will form an “omnipotential” environment around the user, providing all the … Continue reading naked approach
Check out my posting “Layers of Eye Candy” on Philips Lighting’s Future of Light blog where I explore using layers of embedded lighting in retail applications. Continue reading layers of eye candy
With the advancement of camera vision systems, digitally controlled light fixtures and IP-networked controls, architectural lighting systems are poised for tremendous application innovations. One example is as such: In a conference room, a stereo vision system tracks the number of … Continue reading responsive emotional control of lighting
Via Designboom: Interesting product concept by Grundig showing projected controls for kitchen appliances. I assume they are using a camera vision system as the control detection interface, with the camera and projector built into the vent hood above. Continue reading grundig connected home – IFA 2016
I just added a new permanent page detailing my thesis project which explored interactive retail lighting systems. Make sure to check it out at this link! Continue reading active objects, surfaces, and zones
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
Interesting post from The Verge on a new chip set from Intel called Joule that is intended to bring powerful computer vision capabilities to low cost, IoT types of devices. The application for using vision systems in architectural lighting control, interactive lighting installations, retail tracking/interaction systems, etc. continues to hold great promise – and as tech like this from Intel continues to drop the price/complexity of such hardware and IP networking becomes pervasive in lighting, there will be a tipping point when camera vision becomes the de-facto sensing standard. Despite the fear of “big bother” always watching, the system capabilities and advantages of … Continue reading intel joule
