You know how something as simple as a laser pointer can become your pets newest favorite toy? The Bolt Interactive Pet Laser automatically juts around the room, providing your pet with minutes of fun.
As you can tell from the kitty’s glassy-eyed state, she’s simply enthralled.
I’ve always questioned the layout of The Simpsons’ home town of Springfield. There are many speculations as to what state Springfield lies in, but this interactive map put together by a dedicated fan just might hold the clues to my curiosity.
You’d almost forget all the hot locales riddled through out the town of Springfield if there wasn’t such an abundance of them. You could head on over to Sportacus for some sports equipment then later go to Java the Hut for a coffee. Who would have thought there would be so much to do in the state of Oregon? Hit the link below to experience a virtual Springfield.
Straight out of Hell and right under your Christmas tree is this hotter than Hell KISS-themed I-Dog. Who rocks harder than KISS? That’s right: no one. The dog sports Gene Simmons’ Demon face paint, but also shows some love to Paul Stanley with stars for the Star Child.
It plays back music via a built-in speaker and also puts on an electronic light show, all for just 30 bucks. If this dog was a real supporter of KISS, it’d drop the sassy light show and get to work on some pyrotechnics.
Fancy spiders? Check out this creative piece of Flash animation. You can pull a spider around by its legs or just toss it about, making it your helpless victim for any torture you see fit. Still, no one wants to touch a real spider of that size anywhere but here, where the sky is the limit (actually it’s 255 pixels.) You can adjust the scale of both the body and legs, the color and even the speed of the spider. Have a cat? Let the good times roll my friend.
Getting wet sucks, especially if you’re that alien species from the movie Signs. Michael Burton has crafted an award-winning concept of a virtual water interactive installation. Unlike the Light Rain, you won’t find shoddy poetry and goofy dancers throughout this video. Rather, you’ll see people playing with life-like water displayed on a board.
The water will react to anything pressed up against the board including your entire body. Plants will grow in dry areas of the board, aquatic life will spawn from bodies of water and water will become stagnant if its source is severed. With multiple users, an evolving network of virtual water is obtained. The Waterboard claims to
“offer the means to encourage creating thinking to emphasis the natural progression of the Earth’s water supply”
Looks like he’s going for an eco state-of-mind and from the looks of things, it seems to be quite the success.
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We’ve seen interactive projection walls before but none as artsy fartsy as Wowlab’s. A camera identifies the contours of a human body standing in front of a wall. The projection will then interact with the persons via rain drops splashing in reaction to shadow, water puddles are created, and in the water even constellations may appear.
Now if only I could make sense of all the lousy poetry riddled all over their website.
Jesus was known for a wide assortment of parlor tricks. If I had to choose one of Jesus’ powers, it would have to be turning water into wine, just because I’m a drunk badass like that. Arcstream AV is conquering another one of those biblical tricks with their interactive “Living Image” exhibit at The Science Museum in South Kensington, London.
Living Image uses a 6,500 lumens overhead projector and a variety of sensors that let the 1024 x 768 image of water change in real-time, depending on the visitor’s interaction with the floor display. Special infrared sensors allow for more than one person to interact with the displays at one time. Check out an awesome demo video after the jump. (more…)
*sigh* When will the geek community learn that just because an image is projected on a surface, giving the “illusion” of three dimensions, does not make a media be a “holographic” technology. We won’t deny that this interactive image projection isn’t really cool looking, but come on, it’s no hologram.
Now, with that out of the way, what the good people over at LM3Labs HAVE succeeded in creating, is a very impressive lit image projection show with some sort of gesture reading technology. It’s no hologram by any stretch, but that doesn’t make it lame. — Andrew Dobrow
The UBWall is a Fujitsu-made concept which has burrowed its way out from under the R&D walls into Japan’s busy consumer district. UBWall is an interactive touch display with integrated Wi-Fi and RFID capabilities which first appeared about two years ago, but is only recently being used in the wild.
Financial-services company Nomura Securities is installing an still undecided amount of the UBWall terminals in a number of their institutions with the goal of providing customers with relevant information. UBWall contains a gigantic 50-inch plasma screen which lies dormant in “attract” mode until a customer approaches, which is detected through motion sensors. The integration of RFID into UBWall allows for any brochures or information about the company to be wirelessly sent to their mobile device, which really is pretty damn cool. — Andrew Dobrow
