From GE, this is a visual interface/tracking system of the Ecomagination Challenge: Powering The Grid.

This is a data-heavy visualization.  Each submitted idea is a dot, and the concentric rings are a timeline expanding outward from July 2010 to today.  The dot colors represent the idea categories (Create Power, Connect Power and Use Power).  The size of the dot represents how many votes each idea has received and the additional halo around a dot represents the number of comments left by others on that idea.  I can’t tell, but I hope they use the values to calculate the “area” of each dot and not it’s “diameter”!

“…our data visualization teams have put their design skills to work on GE’s new “ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid.” Backed by $200 million in venture capital funds from GE and its partners, the goal is to find the best ideas from researchers and entrepreneurs that will help accelerate the adoption of smart grid technologies. But it can be a daunting task plowing through the more than 1,400 submissions to-date (and growing). So, as you can see in the data visualization, the entries have been represented graphically, with the circles representing clickable ideas.”

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Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled?

BubbleBeats is a cool new interactive jukebox tailored for Android devices that makes organizing music fun. By playfully arranging colorful bubbles, you create complex probabilistic playlists that infinitely delight in reasonable yet unpredictable ways. Dempsey Rice and StartUp Media created this tutorial for the BubbleBeats team.

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Pie chart cake & 7 step cookie from Marti Guixe

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Field Design takes a look at a day in London:

LDN24 is a new public art installation for the Museum of London. It draws filmic impressions and the facts and figures of London life into a picture of 24 hours in the life of the city. Statistics and statements from the web and a huge database are printed along the LED screen by the seconds’ hand of a 24 hours clock. Weather, traffic and news updates, the Thames’ tides, Tube updates and recent fire incidents are pulled live from numerous RSS feeds, Twitter and news portals.

See the display in action below:

LDN24 from FIELD on Vimeo.

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The Canadian Tourism Commission teamed up with DDB Vancouver to develop an interactive campaign to engage the cities of Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles in a playfully innovative way. The agency rolled out “digital storescapes” (a.k.a. Twitter-based murals) with a comprehensive engagement strategy that utilizes Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and a street team as platforms, enticing Americans to ‘keep exploring’ by considering travel to Canada.

The murals feature touchscreen interfaces that centralize tourist buzz by displaying live tweets and photos from travelers in Canada. This creates the opportunity for potential customers to not only become exposed to other travelers’ experience, but also to browse through authentic commentary and have a customized branded experience.

Watch the mural in action:

The Canadian Tourism Commission

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This latest move coincides with Google’s effort to migrate Internet-uploaded video content to television sets.

The feature is still in beta, you can check it out at www.youtube.com/leanback.

Of course, being YouTube, there’s a demo video.

The webs of The Times have already lifted the paywall. But if you want people to pay you got to give them something attractive, diffferent. Unique. And The Times thinks that infographics can be that added value.

They have hired one of the spanish stars of online infographics recently, Rafa Höhr. Former graphics editor of Prisacom (ELPAIS.com, As.com…) and who was working in the online media of Grupo Joly (a regional spanish media group).

Now they’re also publishing interactive infographics for its iPad edition, as I could discover thanks to Esther Vargas.

The Times iPad infographic - “Health Profile of England” from Applied Works on Vimeo.

Infographics people are telling that time ago. We are not just cared about our jobs. Infographics can be the added value. The difference among the flood of webs. Murdoch thinks infographics are a good reason to make people pay. He can success or fail. But he’s not just another person telling the same old story.

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Metasyn is an interface that allows visitors to explore the collection of contemporary art in Roskiilde.  The visualization includes an interactive 3D browser that is among the best I’ve seen.  Items are organized in the space as follows:

The objects are lined up vertically by year showing the distribution of objects over time. For a given object, its vertical order is a product of the ‘grade of dominance’ that the related artist has. The objects that are made by artists whose objects are commonly accruing in the collection are placed closer to the ground plane. This results in an organisation where the most dominant artists are represented close to ‘the core’ of the structure, while the less known artists ends up in the periphery. This decision was made to support the impression of exploring the unknown in the outer areas of the collection, and to increase chances additionally that the museum’s choice of popular artists are promoted.

For the patient, be sure to check out the hi-res version of the video

Created by: Cark Emil Carlsen
Project site: Metasyn

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At the end of last year, Forbes magazine asked a team from Frog Design to help them Envision the Future in 2020.  The day-long event led to an extensive online feature: “Your Life in 2020,” a collection of illustrated concepts and videos that envision the future of ubiquitous computing. In that future,  your computer is not only incorporated into every aspect of your life but is a part of you.

I love that they included the Whuffie, a personal score system developed by Cory Doctorow.