GUINNESS QR CUP
This Guinness QR code on a beer glass, dreamed up by BBDO New York is literally activated by the product—you pour a Guinness into the glass, and the beer’s black color fills out the code. Scan the code with your smartphone, and it “tweets about your pint, updates your Facebook status, checks you in via Foursquare, downloads [...]
DANIEL BUREN: EXCENTRIQUE(S)
French minimalist artist Daniel Buren’s ‘Excentrique(s)’ has taken over the sprawling nave of the Grand Palais in Paris for the fifth annual Monumenta art project. Excentrique(s) is made of hundreds of colored circles in red, blue, green and yellow which are mounted on stalks which huddle through the central space of the Grand Palais. Buren’s [...]
MODWELLS, WEARABLE BIOSENSORS TO IMPROVE HEALTH
The Modwells System is a sensible health monitoring system that you can wear. This hi-tech system aims to improve your physical and emotional health by improving your life quality. A set of sensors, for input and output are hidden in the garments to gather and assess your health data and provides quick feedback and alerts [...]
ZERO-M FROM MIT MEDIA LAB
ZeroN is a new tangible interface element that can be levitated and moved freely by computer in a three dimensional space. Both the computer and people can move the ZeroN simultaneously. In doing so, people and computers can physically interact with one another in 3D space. Users are invited to place or move the ZeroN [...]
KEEP YOU “POSTED”
A recap after a month’s publishing, we’d like to share with you our favorite posts. Mike Ko unveils his latest creation with “iPhone Diorama”. Visually very successful, this 3D animation video about the Apple smartphone. This showcases the talent of this artist based in Los Angeles. If you thought that the vampire craze sweeping silver screens [...]
iPHONE DIORAMA BY MIKE KO
Mike Ko unveils his latest creation with “iPhone Diorama”. Visually very successful, this 3D animation video about the Apple smartphone. This showcases the talent of this artist based in Los Angeles.
TIM BURTON: DARK SHADOWS
If you thought that the vampire craze sweeping silver screens recently was at its end, you thought wrong. Dark Shadows is cult director Tim Burton quirky remake of the late 1960s American gothic soap opera. The film follows Barnabus Collins, a rich and carefree twenty-something in Maine in 1770, who is transformed into a vampire by a [...]
PATTERNED BY NATURE
Patterned by Nature was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (naturalsciences.org) for the newly built Nature Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The exhibit celebrates our abstraction of nature’s infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process, and through our perceptions. It brings to light the similarity of patterns in our universe, [...]
