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Interactive Projection Mapping

I just can't stop stumbling across nice example of projection mapping work. I was really inspired by this work from B-Reel where you can effectively play snake, using your mobile as a controller. Read on...
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Published: January 22, 2012

Blocks + Projection mapping = Interactive Toys

PPP introduces a new way to play with toy blocks. Various images would be projected to the toy blocks depending on how you stack and place them by using image recognition and projection mapping.

http://ppp.aircord.co.jp/en/work/tsumiki/index.html

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Published: November 13, 2011

Connectable things – Sifteo: Interactive Cubes

Connectable, playable cubes that make a game...
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Published: June 19, 2011

Connecting things can be fun…. Pilleurs de Brume

The future of board games maybe? But not on a board and a lot more expensive than snakes and ladders. You use an iPad and a couple of iPhones. It looks great and all this from 5 students in France. Clever clever people.
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Published: June 19, 2011

Video Encoding for iPad using Adobe Media Encoder

Video Encoding for iPad using Adobe Media EncoderSeems to be a bit of a struggle getting the facts on how to encode a video correctly for the iPad using Adobe Media Encoder, especially as there is no Preset. So after a bit of experimenting and research i thought i'd share what i know. As well as a custom Preset file i made that might be useful.
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Published: April 4, 2011

Never been so excited about a light bulb until now…

This won Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011. It's called the Plumen 001 and it's a low energy lightbulb, designed by Hulger and Sam Wilkinson.
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Published: March 30, 2011

Great work – Canon Pixma Sound Sculptures

In September 2010 Dentsu London launched this project in collaboration with biochemist/photographer, Linden Gledhill for Canon’s PIXMA colour printer range. It feels a little like what Sony might have done next after there experiments with colour. "The project features surreal ‘sound sculptures’ made of dancing droplets of paint captured in extreme detail as they react to sound waves."
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Published: March 30, 2011

TV advert + iphone app = Honda Jazz

Honda, with the help of the clever boys and girls at Wieden + Kennedy London has used a technique for creating interactive experiences between you're iphone and a TV ad.

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Published: February 1, 2011

Using Kinect… without an Xbox

The future of this looks very promising, and full of potential. It certainly seems more promising than the Wii remote hacking projects that went around when that first came about. By then i am thinking in terms of practical uses, for things like interactive installations etc. READ ON

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Published: December 1, 2010

3D Playtime #3

Shattering things So by this point i'm really enjoying playing around with Cinema 4D... there is so much stuff in that software and it's really user friendly. So the Greyscale Gorilla tutorial now is http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2009/12/shatter-and-destruction/ It involves a free third party plugin called destruction, and cinema 4D's mograph 2 features. Rock n Roll!
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Published: September 9, 2010