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?
An interactive visual jukebox: BubbleBeats
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
A new public art installation for the Museum of London
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
Outdoor Advertising With Twitter-Based Murals (Video)
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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YouTube Leanback is live
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.
A new strategy for making people pay for The Times online: Infographics
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: Interactive information visualization
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
Frog Design Envisions: Your Future in 2020
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.
The term “whuffie,” by the way, is a word coined by author Cory Doctorow in his book Down And Out In the Magic Kingdom. It refers to the measurement of respect or karma a person gains or looses in their lives. In Doctorow’s future, humans have implants in their brains that visually project their whuffie, which has replaced money as currency.
Via VizWorld and DesignMind, the Frog Design blog
Tangible Interaction: Digital Graffiti Wall
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.
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