UNICEF dirty water vending machine

A thought provoking approach to showcase the importance of clean water. Nice.

Digital pinball

Love this digital pinball done by DoubleYou for Nike Spain, as a part of their country adaptation for the gigantic Write the future campaign, looks like digital content within an analog containeris becoming kind of cool these days.

Shadows

Augmented Shadow, by Joon Moon, 2010. used openframeworks. It’s a tabletop interface on where artificial shadows of tangible objects displayed. You can play with the shadows lying on the boundary between the real, virtual, and fantasy.

Billboard yourself

“Billboard yourself, you are made of music” is an interactive installation, what a cool one, fromAlmap/BBDO in Brazil for Billboard Magazine.

Hyperlinks in Printed Books

Ubimark embeds books with two-dimensional codes that work as hyperlinks when photographed. So far there’s just one book available in English, Around the World in 80 Days, with the bar-like codes.

Purdue Professor Embeds Hyperlinks in Printed Books, by Mary Helen Miller

Giant Mouse

Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand turn the Toyota iQ into a mouse, so it could move a cursor on a giant screen and operate a computer. Made me look.

Color a sound

Color a sound uses an overhead projector and a camera to create an inverse color organ that plays like a player piano. Different colors trigger tones or drums.

Interactive Mapping Projection

An interactive projection centered on the mapping for the Nokia customer and his product “Ovi Maps”. A wicked installation that brings human and directions closer to instill the thought of user friendly maps, it is produced in one week using Afx and OFWs. The installation features custom optical flow, face tracking and some crazy complex arrow chess!. By the Seeper collective.

Radius Installation

Sound reactive light installation for Home House, London by rAndom International. Made me look.

Wind factory

Harness the power of nature and put it into good use. This device makes no aspirations to convert wind to electrical current, harnessing the rotational energy to spin gears and knit tubes of infinite length. It’s quite a smart way to think about all the ways we can harvest the potential around us. especially if applied at the scale of a factory.

The machine was made by RCA grad Merel Karhof.