Dome lights in metro stations? Interactive squash courts? Walls coming alive and the advertisement pillars of the future? A
trial of strength? A mobile technology on the increase becoming a
significant reality is now being challenged by exactly the opposite.
While screen technologies are currently bringing forth the most
gossamer screen types – perpetually implementing new resolution and
colour standards, Innovation Lab now presents a novel screen type not
conforming to this trend. It does however pave the way to a new world
of unprecedented possibilities In co-operation
with Christoffer Dupont, student of engineering; Line Langballe,
student of architecture and Dalton Beton (a Danish manufacturer of
concrete components), the Innovation Lab project team has developed the
first screen of transparent concrete that the world has ever seen. A
revolutionising screen type – a novel concept which will come to
influence building industry, architecture, design and a vast array of
business areas. The first firms of architects were already queuing up
long before the manufacturing process had been completed. Innovation
Lab therefore has great expectations to this creation and anticipates a
massive influx of attention, national as international, cementing the
significance of the see-through concrete screen...
Link: Innovation Lab
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November 29, 2006
Cheoptics360
viZoo & RAMBOLL have together created an impressive new media for large city surroundings - blending digital optics with real life activity.
Cheoptics360™ is a new medium that provides hitherto undreamt of opportunities
for narrating in 3D. The medium will move the boundaries for visual communications in public places, and will change how people in the film and advertising worlds and architects work.You are standing in Times Square in New York. Imagine a building with a large glass pyramid on top. Inside a hologram of a full-size true-to-life Madonna is performing. Objects and symbols float around her, reinforcing the musical impression of the living images - like a music video on an MTV broadcast virtually in true life.
It may sound like a scene from the future, but with Cheoptics360™ it is already possible. The fact is that Cheoptics360™ provides entirely new opportunities for showing films and presentations in inspiring and exciting ways. Observers see floating video images, which can be viewed from all angles, 360 degrees around: a spacious 3D experience never previously encountered.
“Cheoptics360™ makes it possible to blend fiction and reality in hitherto unprecedented ways. It opens up a world of possibilities for using the medium in films, commercials, and various other types of presentations,” says Peter Simonsen from viZoo, the company that invented Cheoptics360.
Cheoptics360™ shows films based on the Free Format™ philosophy; in other words, the format is free and unframed, as the idea is to break out of the frameworks and instead use actual space as the framework for narration and the video image.
How the technology works Cheoptics360™ is a four-sided pyramid manufactured of transparent material so the audience can see through it from every side. Inside the pyramid chamber the audience can see objects that seem to be freely floating video images and computer graphics. This is done through surface mirroring and reflections. The pyramid itself is used as a kind of prism that assembles light from four video projections into a solid image.
Link: Cheoptics360
October 19, 2006
HiTV
Jackie Lee the creator of Lovers Cups will also be amazing the exhibition audience with the HiTV a Context Aware Computing project out of MIT Media Lab.
When you
are watching television and gets angry with the speaker because he is boring or
says something wrong your only way to give affective feedback is to either
switch channels or simply turn off your television. The concept of HiTV enables
you to interact affectively and hence receive feedback from your television. This
can be done by throwing a soft rubber ball at the television screen, which
makes the boring television speaker visually distorted and screaming out loud.
The soft ball is like a graspable interface with build in sensors that can detect people interacting with it – for example whether they are throwing the ball at the screen or patting it. A signal is sent from the ball to a signal box in the television by RF. Given these interactions with the ball the user gets both visual and audio feedback. The signal box can also be connected to a network system so that you can share your emotions with other people.
Link: HiTV
HCID Combat Glove
RallyPoint Inc. has developed the HCID Handwear Computer Input Device intended for military use. HCID is a sensor-embedded glove that is capable of recognizing intuitive single-handed gesture commands and detecting hands-on-weapon input actions. Series of sensors sense the hand postur HCID and orientation to recognize different gesture commands whereas hands-on-weapons input actions are detected by thin, flexible force sensors placed throughout the glove. These sensors and their supporting conduction network are fully integrated in the fabric of the glove so that it looks and feels like a conventional soldier glove.
This special glove enables you to select the view mode of your helmet-mounted display without having to take your hand off your weapon or the steering wheal of your vehicle. It is also possible to operate a small, unmanned ground vehicle from a combat-ready posture. The HCID concept also has the potential of being a versatile electronics platform for a variety of possible devices (e.g., metal detector, life sign sensor, etc)
Link: RallyPoint
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