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.
Via Lothas
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:
Via FlowingData
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
Via PSFK
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.
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
Alex Biem of Vancouver-based Tangible Interaction has engineered what he calls a “Tangible Graffiti Wall.” The Wall, which has been present at a number of events including the Vancouver Winter Olympics, lets people “spray” or “stencil” onto a projected display surface using an infrared can.
After users are done, they can email or upload their artwork to Twitter directly from the Wall.
Watch the video:
Digital Graffiti Wall + Stencils from Alex Beim on Vimeo.
Via PSFK
This tool, called EnVision, aims to achieve an interface similar to Google Maps, making the visualization process easy and helping to make scientific visualization a more common activity for researchers.
EnVision is a tool to remotely visualize dataset through a web browser. It allows you to transparently user remote visualization resources through a thin web based client from anywhere in the world.
Via VizWorld
Iron Man has a fun website online where you can view yourself wearing the Iron Man or War Machine helmets, or see the “Heads Up Display” seen in the movie with all of the overlays and elements. Works on both Mac & PC, but requires a lengthy download of plugins and assets.
Iron Man 2 | Augmented Reality Experience.
Via VizWorld
We have to admit that e-books can, indeed, do stuff that paper books cannot. A good example of this is Alice for the iPad, Lewis Carroll’s story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland turned into a children’s storybook but with an interactive twist.
This particular e-book is not meant to be read sitting still; it’s meant to be shaken and stirred, forcing many interactive elements on the screen to move around, fall down or jump up. And I bet the kids will love it.
Alice for the iPad is $9 in the App Store (there’s also a free, lite version), but if you want a taste right now, check out the video below.
Via Mashable!
