This one droped in today and will be presented at the Nordic EXceptional Trendshop during the weekend.
The SkyScout is a revolutionary, one of a kind, patented handheld device that instantly identifies and/or locates any celestial object visible to the naked eye, providing educational and entertaining information, both in text and audio. A fun learning tool for all ages, the SkyScout Personal Planetarium puts the knowledge of an expert astronomer in the palm of you hand.
Link: Celestron
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
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
Vuk Cosic from croatia will both be presention at the conferencen and exhibiting the Instant ASCII Camera during the event.
The Instant
ASCII Camera is working in the same way that the instant cameras located in the
railway stations. The difference is though, that this particular camera
produces portraits in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
and that it is free of charge. This means that the pictures consist of
different letters; numbers and symbols that put together in a specific matrix
form a portrait. The consumer approaches the camera, presses the green button
and instantly receives his/her portrait on a supermarket type of receipt. Even
though that you cannot use these pictures for your passport it still provides
great opportunities for future application.
Using the Instant ASCII Camera it is possible to get free portraits of yourself. However you cannot use the portraits for your passport due to the fact that your portrait will only consist of letters, numbers and symbols put together to form a picture!
Link: Instant ASCII Camera
Beta Tank is coming over for the event with the Progress Bar.
We are all
familiar with the status bar we see on the computer screen that lets us know how
far the computer is from completing a task. Now the new Progress Bar has been
developed so that you are able to see the progress of your own goals, aims,
ambitions or any other long-term interests, which might get left behind because
of every day life distractions. Progress Bar are objects that are able to visualize
periods between one week and one hundred years. Time is inputted with a turning
mechanism and is visualized through calming radiating lights. Once it is
started, it will ask for almost no attention or upkeep it just shows you your
own progress so that you always know how far away your goals are.
Link: Beta Tank
60-70% of
children treated for breathing problems are having this disease as a
consequence of inhaling passive smoke. The Smoke Doll is a doll designed to
enhance your awareness of the things that you exposes your child to. 
The physical
behaviour of the breathing of the doll is depending on the amount of passive
smoke it is exposed to. Over time the inhaled smoke destroys the dolls
breathing until it becomes irregularly coughing and finally stops,
simultaneously with the appearance of real nicotine stains on its outside. In
this way you are not only aware of what your child is exposed to in your own
home but you could also imagine that some parents would not allow their child
to play with friends in a home with a very ill Smoke Doll.
Link: Smoke Doll
Innovation Lab: Demo Lab
To everyone that is
not familiar with Innovation Lab, we have two Demo Labs at each office (Århus
& Copenhagen) - permanently showcasing prototypes and eye-opening
artifacts. These Demo Labs will also be present at the event (farthest right corner)
and I will reveal some of the goodies you can see, touch, and have our Lab
Agents present at NEXT2006.
Programmable Beverage Container
You know the feeling of shopping for the big dinner where you have invited all of your friends and suddenly you can’t remember what flavour they usually like to drink? With IPIFINI’s new beverage container you just buy the amount of bottles needed and have them decide which flavour they like.
The mini capsules
at the top of the beverage container releases up to six different flavours when
pressed; you can choose between vanilla, lemon, lime, cherry, and two doses of
caffeine.
Sensitive Floor
Have you
ever felt like the earth moved beneath you? Have you ever dreamed of
experiencing the feeling of walking on water? Now you can get an idea of the
feeling when walking on the solid floor. The Sensitive floor by Italian iO Agency is an interactive video floor projection,
which reacts to people walking through the area of interactivity. The depth
perception of this projection technology is amazing in creating the illusion of
the third dimension and stepping into a level below up.
Cutting Scale
You want to improve you cooking skills in the future then I suggest you fellow the development of the concept model from designer Giffin'Termeer (projected development is 1-5 years). This new spectacular kitchen aid equipment is a cutting board that has an integrated scale within a defined area on its surface. Ingredients can be cut and measured on the same surface with very little extra effort thus in precise manner aim for more spectacular cooking experiences.
I recently
talked with the creator of the Cutting Scale Jim TerMeer about the forecast for
this technology and how the recent media hype have had many people contact him
about possible solutions for making this work both digital high tech and analogous
solutions!
The Hug Shirt by
Cutecircuit enables you to share the sensation of a hug with your
loved ones whenever and wherever you feel like it. Sensors embedded in the
shirt of the sender feels the strength of the touch, the skin warmth and the
heartbeat rate of the sender and then send this information to the actuators in
shirt of the recipient. This is done by use of Bluetooth applications and your
mobile phones. The shirt comes in many different colors so that you can match
the style of your shirt to the rest of your outfit. 
Link: Hug Shirt
Utilizing the WIT technology described in the previous post is Fire
Information and Rescue Equipment (FIRE) a project made in co-operation with
Chicago Fire Department. Fire fighting is an extremely demanding job. Lots of
decisions needs to be made in a small amount of time and the decisions are
often based on very little information. 
The FIRE project tries to address all
these challenges by applying and designing new technologies to ease the
everyday life of a fire fighter. Especially seen in the light of the
catastrophe at World Trade Centre the focus of the project is on communications
enhancing tools that are designed to improve safety, efficiency and
effectiveness of emergency responses.
Link: FIRE
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