Found on the amazing web site of field.io

Found on the amazing web site of field.io
Google Translated from French is Alexa Meades latest work where she has made real people into paintings and photographed. Amazing effect.
Nokia and the folks from The Feast social innovation conference teamed up recently to launch Change Connections, an online social-innovation platform.
The site allows users to connect and engage around focus points like disaster planning, community empowerment, and healthcare. Via Core77
This touch screen table have endless possibilities, and it’s a strange there aren’t more of this at lunch restaurants, cafés, events, buss stops, bars, clubs, and public parks.
“Interactive Café Table is a modified pillar table with a rotatable touch screen positioned centrally on the tabletop. Several users can access the screen’s content irrespective of what side of the table they sit on. The idea is to customise the content for each specific environment and occasion, creating interesting pieces of conversation.”
Smokescreen – iPad demo #1 from Chris @ RevShockAds on Vimeo.
We don’t thiiiiiink this is an April fools thing, some guys seem to have made a javascript that actually reads a .swf file and re-plays it in javascript, so it works on the iPhone etc. This is truly amazing if they can make it fast enough (which they can). Imagine doing great Flash web sites, and then being able to have a fall back iPhone version in HTML5, that actually shows animations and sounds. Or to finally be able to view all those videos online that is just not possible now on iPhone and iPad. Good work, we cross our fingers. They are releasing it open source so may be we’ll contribute.
New Media Meeting festival is the festival you wanna go to, even though it’s in Norrköping, 2 hours south of Stockholm. This clip (Shaidon Effect (Denmark) and Ida Selbing’s sculpture (Sweden)) features one of the many installations they show 20-27 November every year. Look out for this event come fall.
Whenefver you’re approaching a problem, you should look at what the Interactive Institute have done, they will probably be way ahead. We wanna highlight a few of their interactive pieces here on the blog to show you just about how clever these people are. Worth mentioning here is that this was our Kalle Thyselius‘ dream job when he was studying at Hyper Island many years ago. We’ll post these highlights in their separate posts. Perhaps the brilliance is not only in the ideas, but also the fact that they can actually play all day.
This Harry Potter magic coffe cup is clever in so many ways.
# Virually free to create, all that’s needed is a little nerd
# Wonderful to experience IRL
# Viral when uploaded to YouTube
# Awards will rain down from the sky
“We feel fine” is Jonathan Harris famous interactive piece from 2006. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). All of this information is saved. The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 – 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions.
Explore Jonathan Harris´ other work at http://www.number27.org/ especially I Want You To Want Me which blew us away at MOMA in New York last year and LoveLines.
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