Category Archives: Tech
Interactive PJ’s for mobile device: Scan a code on your child’s Pajamas
Scan a code on your child’s Pajamas, then start an automatic children’s storybook on your mobile device – with Smart PJ’s.
Interactive Heineken Beer Bottle
Heineken is trying to tap into club culture with an interactive bottle design that uses micro sensors and wireless technology to interact with drinkers. The LED lights react when people toast each other and sip from the bottle, and they can be synchronized to music as well.
Good Night Lamp
Making Hackney sparkle
Just before Christmas POKE London came up with a snow-cannon installation that allowed people to trigger a snowfall using their smartphones.
Posters in Rivington Street in Hackney encouraged pedestrians to make a call or check in using Foursquare. Those curious enough were rewarded with a snowfall to the tunes of ‘Let it Snow’ by Dean Martin.
IBM: Flashing Zebra Crossing
Ogilvy & Mather, Amsterdam, recently organised for school kids to meet up with IBM in order to try and come up with a better idea of how to make Zebra Crossings more effective. Students were asked to submit ideas, and the winners idea got made in real life.
Futuristic highways in the Netherlands glow in the dark
A futuristic highway that can save energy and improve road safety is set to be installed in the Netherlands by mid-2013. The highway includes: glow-in-the-dark road markings painted with photo-luminescent paint which are charged during the day and light up during the night; temperature-responsive paint which indicates slippery roads when temperatures fall below zero; and interactive lights along the highway that light up as cars approach.
Wind lights that light up using the draft produced by cars and priority induction lanes that can recharge electric cars as they run along them also feature. The luminous road markings and weather indicating roads will debut in the Dutch province of Brabant.
The Night is our Canvas
This is a video of a Tagtool session by Maki and iink at an abandoned industrial complex right next to the cemetery of the nameless in Vienna. Made with Tagtool for iPad, the multiplayer app for animated art.
Flying Stick
At Mondial de l’automobile 2012 in Paris, France, the Atelier GH and the agency Audience created the production of “Flying Sticks” – a stand for Valeo. 60 flying sticks creates a choreography as a metaphor and reminder of the company’s environmental policy.
Coca-Cola: Dance vending machine
Here is the latest ‘Happiness’ project from Coca-Cola, this time from Korea, where a huge interactive dancing vending machine was created, rewarding people who completed the tasks with free drinks, the harder the challenge the more free coke people scored.
Adidas NEO Window Shopping
Adidas NEO is taking window shopping to a new level with an interactive digital window concept, that connects to your smartphone. Now it is possible to shop at the store after hours.
Where the Internet Lives: The First-Ever Glimpse Inside Google’s Data Centers
For the first time ever Google has posted dozens of unique photographs inside and around its data centers revealing the absurd level of organization, energy and design that goes into powering some of the largest, most powerful systems plugged into the internet.
The Waterfall Swing
Such an awesome installation!
The Waterfall Swing is a collaborative project between Mike O’Toole, Andrew Ratcliff, Ian Charnas and Andrew Witte.
Towering steel swing set holding arrays of mechanical solenoids that create a water plane falling in the path of its riders. Formed from a tangent of ideas raised from the study of interactions of water as space, the swing is the first in a series that play with interaction in rides and installations. Riders pass through openings in a waterfall created by precisely monitoring their path via axel-housed encoders, creating the thrill of narrowly escaping obstacles.
How the Waterfall Swing works:
Water recirculates through 273 independently controlled solenoid valves at the top of the structure to create a wall of water. This water starts from a collection pool on the ground and is pumped up to a large pipe that feeds the solenoids. Sensors mounted on the swingset gather information about the angle and speed of each swing. That information is sent to a computer that predicts the action of the rider. The computer then creates a hole in the wall of water, allowing the rider to swing through without getting wet.
This is How Technology Will Create a Smarter San Francisco
San Francisco’s leading tech founders come together to imagine a smarter San Francisco with sf.citi.
Thanks to @therkel for finding this.
