Future Of Screen Technology
This is the result of the Open Innovation experiment. It is an experience video showing the future of screen technology with stretchable screens, transparent screens and e-ink displays, to name a few.
From the mighty TAT.
Fullscreen here.
Arcade Fire | HTML5 Video
“Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.” Make sure you run Chrome and have all other apps closed because it’s quite heavy on processor use.
Down.
Here.
Via the new-to-me-yet-exciting Blogilvy
Future Rock Band
Augmented reality and gaming.
Marvellous.
Holographic Interface | Ringo
Interfaces are often square because a square is more space efficient than a circular shape. But when you project on a wall or the ground, you have lots of space. With Pico projectors just around the corner we can begin to think about projected interfaces.
ViaTAT.
Augmented Shadow
Augmented Shadow is a tabletop interface on which the artificial shadows of tangible objects are displayed. One object acts as the light source the others have augmented shadows.
FLUD
FLUD is an intuitive and well designed customisable RSS news reader with social sharing controls, video playback and bookmarking etc.
Here.
Real Life ‘Like’
The video is awful 0 the sound track and V/O being particularly minging. However, the thing it’s on about is a very nice idea. Basically enabling people to perform a “Like” action in the real world, which appears back on Facebook.
Sweet.
Additional inappropriate meeting cliché: ‘Digital is best when it’s not digital’.
3D On YouTube
This (awesome) video:
Has a 3D selector item at its base that looks like this:
Which gives you these options:
So all you need to do is select the relevant option, get some 3D glasses or stare at the screen bosseyed. I have to admit I tried the latter (cross-eyed as above) which actually vaguely worked. Not quite as good as a Bravia, but 3D nonetheless.
Brilliant.
MetaMirror
MetaMirror is a concept application that delivers an enhanced television experience without disrupting the conventional expectations of home entertainment. It allows viewers to access content relevant to the program currently being viewed. The product is a software platform which runs on a secondary device of the users choice, displaying this contextual content over a mirror of the television broadcast. By bringing together live television, real-time contextual information and an intuitive user interface, Meta Mirror is positioned to update television from uni-directional broadcast to two-way interaction.
More here.
Google Tracking Bug Alarm Firefox Add-On
The Google Alarm Firefox addon visually & audibly alerts you when your personal information is being sent to Google servers. Even outside Gmail and YouTube you are constantly sending information to Google through their vast network of tracking bugs: Google Analytics, Google AdSense, YouTube embeds, API calls.. all of this data could potentially be used to monitor & track your personal web browsing habits. Google Alarm shows notifications, plays sound effects and keeps running stats about the % of websites you visit they push data back to Google.
Here.
Projection Mapping & iPad
Link.
Augmented City [3D]
An imagined future world overlaid with digital information, whose build environment can be transformed at the touch of a few buttons. ‘The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape,’ says its creator Keiichi Matsuda. ‘More and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us.’
Via.
Cornell Medical School 3D Cave
The Cornell Visualization Facility is the world’s first high definition 3D virtual reality environment projected in a 3D CAVE environment. It uses the high res blended images, projected on three walls and a walk-on floor. An interactive tracking device, worn by the primary user, coupled with a hand-held electronic wand to manipulate the images, allows multiple researchers to “move around” simultaneously within a three-dimensional data set or structure.
Site here.
Via.
Emulator | Multi Touch For The DJ
Banging – as I believe one says.
More here.
Ex.FM
ExtensionFM is a (pretty fracking smart) browser extension for Chrome that turns the entire web into your personal music library. As you browse, ExtensionFM runs in the background indexing every MP3 file you come across, building a music library for you. ExtensionFM will continue to check the sites you’ve visited, adding new music for you to listen to every day.
Nice.
Here.
Almost via Alfred.