Disco Dance Floor

Okay this isn’t ground breaking interactive architecture but I love the dedication.

Watch the Video and check out the Documentation of the Project

# 1,536 LEDs
# 128 square feet
# 4,096 colors
# 30 frames/second
# 20,000 hand-soldered connections

All in one week!

You got to give it to them, they really are the ultimate geeks at MIT. Its obviously been done in better ways but these guys get a special mention for their tenacity

Add comment October 11th, 2005

lightspace – Low Res Interactive hypersurfaces

Lightspace provides interactive lighting and entertainment products to numerous industries including Nightclubs, Family Entertainment Centers, Theme Parks, Fashion Shows, Special Events, Stage Lighting & Sound, Health Clubs and Architectural Lighting & Design.

Video

Add comment October 7th, 2005

Fortune’s Vision of the E-Office

I think it’s always interesting to see how publications like Fortune select from the multitude of new interactive devices what they see as the future of for example the office environment. While it shows a certain immaturity in what they percieve as the boundaries of Information Technology, it does remind us that the designing for this market requires an element of novelty or gadgit chic. The true test of course is whether there is more than ‘Fad’ value in a product providing a truely enhancing device or environment. An obvious example that achieves these both being the ipod.

This article doesn’t go into muc depth but does exemplify the current perception corporate industy has on this emerging industry.

Office of the Future
From the Jul. 2005 Issue of FSB
By Maggie Overfelt

Office walls that sense how you’re feeling, technology that translates small movements into big actions, and chairs that know when you need to chill out: Enter the office of tomorrow, where intelligent technology will boost productivity without burnout…

Article includes Immersive Interfaces, Smart Furniture, You’re Tagged, Considerate Computing.

Add comment October 5th, 2005

UVA – LED Walls – Kabaret London

UVA are producers and designers of performance video and environmental graphics for live events. Last year they installed one of these systems into the Kabaret Club on Beak Street, Soho, London.

Video

Barco’s MiPix Modular LED Blocks allowing the screen to follow the curvature on the space. Using their own purpose built software ‘Dragonfly 2′ a VJ can display a low res live display of text, colour modulation, noise, patterns etc.

2 comments October 2nd, 2005