09 Tech Tuesday Pico Projectors

Pico Projectors- There are two main types of Pico Projectors, Laser and LED. Laser pico projectors use a laser beam to project the image. The advantage of Laser projectors is that there is no optics, meaning that that focus is no longer a challenge. Unlike a normal projector with a lens that needs to be […]

06 Tech Tuesday – Interactive Floors

Interactive floors have been around for at least 15 years and vary in resolution and sensing functionality. Commercially they are used for three purposes that I know of, Commercial Applications safety mats (large piece of machinery stops working if you step on or off of a mat). These tend to be super durable low resolution […]

ESI Design Shanghai Corporate Pavilion – The Dream Cube

The Dream Cube – Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 The reason I have spent a quarter of the last 16 months flying between Shanghai and New York is now open and featured in a post in the New York Times. Photo Credit: Basil Childers Check out some other links as well […]

Seven Screens – Interactive LED Displays

Media Facades

Kick ass web site on media architecture http://www.mediaarchitecture.org/

Multi-touch

From Gizmodo Here is some software that supports multitouch UPDD Here are some other resources for multi-touch as well DiamondTouch ~sedna 3M 42″DST Accenture Fingertapps has some pretty interesting software for multi-touch manipulation. (Contact Ben Wilde) The have worked with the following hardware platforms: NextWindow Optical Touch screens which use optical sensors and are relatively […]

Large Scal Low-res LED Diplays

http://www.barco.com/corporate/en/products/product_video.asp?element=3611&vId=0 http://www.elementlabs.com/HelixH37.html http://www.elementlabs.com/VersaTILE.html http://www.penac.philips.com/themes/lightcanvas/?Int_origin=1_HP_slot6_us_en_lightcanvs_img http://www.colorkinetics.com/showcase/installs/?id=196 http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/advertising/new-mediamesh-and-illumesh-technologies-turn-entire-buildings-into-led-ads-300709.php http://www.gkd-ag4-mediamesh.de/ http://www.greenpix.org/download.php?mode=0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0YBCSmw-p0

Large Digital Display Software Solutions

http://www.mainlight.com/softled_scrim/products/index.php http://www.vistasystems.net/ http://www.c-nario.com/

Color By Numbers LED Beacon

Color By Numbers A tower of lights that are controlled via cell phone. I wonder if people have any sense of what they are doing but I like the beacon aspect of it. Unfortunately it looks like a big cross from the you tube video. The cell phone is not a great interface for it […]

Volume by UVA: interactive LED Poles

Volumes check out the video as well