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New Materials

• New Materials, Visual

  LED-FLEX

  04.06.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I'm always looking for flexible materials for my kinetic interactive installations. Heres a LED substitute for neon lights with the added property of being able to change shape. Mule Lighting has developed a product that looks like traditional neon but is much more versatile.

  PDF The uniform and super-bright light output is achieved […]

• New Materials, Visual

  LightPoints - SCHOTT

  02.24.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Here's some pretty slick glass/light technology called LightPoints, one of many architectural materials developed by Schott. Not specifically designed to be interactive but with some cleverly placed sensors and DMX control system for LED switching there's potential for some very nice interactive architecture indeed.

  Website

  A pane of transparent glass conducting electricity is equipped with […]

• Audio, Bartlett, Devices, Furniture, Haptic, Inflatable, Interactive, Kinetic, MIT, New Materials, Reciprocal, Smell, Virtual, Visual

  Can you help?

  02.02.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  As you may have seen there’s a tutorials page attached to the blog which I’ve had online as long as the blog has been running. I’ve been meaning to build up a tutorials section of links to other websites and books about physical computing, hacking appropriated technology etc but just haven’t got around to doing […]

• Devices, New Materials

  Transmaterial: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Physical Environment

  01.30.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  If your building interactive architecture, its obviously not just about understanding digital technology, you have to have an understanding of all the materials in construction that would lend themselves to interactive spaces. I’ve just got hold of this book Transmaterial: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Physical Environment and I’d recommended it to […]

• Devices, New Materials

  Smart Materials 1 - Definition

  01.20.06 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Last night I was at the smart materials event at the Dana Center in Londons Science Museum where a number of interesting materials that could be potentially applied to interactive architecture. I personally didn’t find anything that was mindblowingly new but it was good to talk to some of the people in this industry and […]

• Interactive, New Materials

  Ferrofluid Sculptures by Sachiko Kodama

  12.27.05 | Permalink | 37 Comments

  Ferrofluid is a very interesting material originally developed by NASA it has now found itself been used for a whole range of devices including dampers for controlling and stabilizing large building that move around in the wind. Whats also amazing is that they have such lovely visual qualities when magnetized. The term […]

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