16
Sep
The Smart Finger is a device that caps your thumb and forefinger (or any 2 fingers) and uses the signals relayed between the two finger points to calculate the measurement.
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Sep
A Magnetic Curtain you can shape to any form. Through the incorporated structure and magnets, it stays in the shape you push and pull it to.
03
Sep
The Compass Phone asks weather mobiles are surveillance tools, digital leashes. It acts as a tether to another, using its GPS function to point you in the direction of the person you wish to be near with a compass. On the top, the amount of time it’ll take you and them to meet is displayed.
06
Aug
Design firm IDEO created a design concept for the future of self-service banking in hopes to put an end to robotic, inhuman experience of using a modern ATM. Starting from scratch, the company’s work has lead to a visually enhanced machine that is closer to human interaction.
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05
Aug
Kinetic Memory Triggers is a series of five anthropomorphic kinetic sculptures. With technology, objects can be given ‘life’ by appearing receptive and responsive to their users. By mapping anthropomorphic behaviors onto inanimate objects, we can create ‘beings’ perceived as being alive and having human qualities.
28
Jun
Visual Hearing Aid combines the function of both the visual and hearing aid to display what other people are saying via two projectors to the user. The device uses speech to text translation software on embedded controllers to display the speech as text via two micro-projectors.
20
Jun
Reddot reacts to human interaction in the lobby of an office building by displaying color flows in a three-dimensional plexiglass grid that tracks pedestrians as they walk by. The project uses a unique form of presence detection by projecting lasers onto people’s bodies and tracking how far they are from its face, also it writes incoming SMS messages sent by visitors on its 3D display.
15
Jun
The Mood Chair is a piece of interactive furniture that changes colour in response to the colours that its sensors perceive from the environment and the users. Interactive furniture technically consists of partially translucent units, with LEDs, embedded micro-chips and appropriate sensors.
