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+ Color & Modulation, hand painted(!), computer manipulated, animated swirls of 16mm film. Ambient films by Rob Tyler, that's CM1 above from the Color & Modulation series and images from Novice Robots below.
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In our rapidly changing design landscape, new cutting-edge objects with embedded intelligence are inspiring new ways of living, providing new and innovative functionality in the home... and when big companies like Phillips start producing serious interface concepts like Air Tree, Memento, and Light Chimes we realize just how quickly those changes in our physical world are taking place. JGB
+ presslink.nl
AIR TREE; following cues from nature, the inspiring the Air Tree freshens the home just the way they do in the natural environment; cleaning the air we breathe.
THE CHAMELEON, a lamp shade that changes its color to match any color you 'show' it.
LOOKLOOK captures stills that can be instantaneously sent to a mobile phone or projected onto any surface for immediate sharing with others.
MOMENTO stores the most cherished moments, recorded as short movie clips, and replays them as floating magical fragments in a glass ball.
INTOUCH, hung on the wall, converts one-to-one communications back into 'group-to-group' of 'family-to-family' communications.
LIGHT CHIMES detect changes in the breeze and temperature and translate them into captivating patterns and swirling light.
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Imola Bérczi, Lukasz Kos, Christine Elson, Yusef Frasier, Sarah Iwata, and Gabe Sawhney of TEST|ROOM created "DX Tagged" for the First Annual Design Exchange - National Design Conference in October. While attending the conference, I was able to participate in this interesting project.
"The goal was to create an open interactive project that incited a conversation addressing the role of RFID technology in the design field". During the conference, DX participants consumed food and drinks, socialized, and admired the realtime plan view of ourselves represented by dots, projected on the wall behind.
The aptly named "TIMEStables" were bar height tables that stood at the optimum height for leaning, and socializing.
TEST|ROOM mapped the interactions and movement of those dots through our conference ID badges embedded with the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags, registered by antenna concealed in glowing acrylic tables.
The participant data was compiled, and trajectories based on the intersection of movement within a 10 minute duration of time were rendered into 3D form (above).
After refining the data, TESTROOM then presented their project to the large audience where the the future possibilities of RFID was discussed at length. By making the participants an integral part of the project, the presentation became a lively, and very well-discussed topic. JGB
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When atoms and bits collide you get I/O Brush, a drawing tool from MIT's Media Lab that explores colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking them up" and drawing with them. "I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from their immediate environment.".
+ Watch the video here
+ media.mit.edu
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