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Marvelous Solar-Powered Light Show in Croatia

Greeting to the Sun, a public art installation by Croatian architect Nikola Bašić, comes to life at sunset in the beautiful coastal town of Zadar, Croatia.  This circle of light is consisted of 300…

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Hop Suitcase Follows You Around Like a Puppy

Rodrigo García has designed a suitcase that follows the user around like a puppy. Dubbed "Hop" after bellhops, the prototype contains three receivers that are able to identify signals from the user's cell…

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Google Maps Goes Underwater

Google has officially taken a plunge into the ocean. Starting September 26th, the mysterious underwater world is just one click away on Google Maps. Using specially designed SVII underwater camera, Google partners with…

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Flickering 3D Screen Made of 2880 LED Lights

'Exploded Views', a suspended, chandelier-like installation by San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell, illuminates the Haas Atrium with 2880 computer-controlled LED lights.  Part sculpture, part cinematic display, this flickering grid of light gives a…

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Gorgeous Tree of Light by Pink+Gruen

For those who visited the Fusion Festival near the Lake Muritz in Germany this summer, they were in for a treat as design duo Pink+Gruen created an unforgettable lighting experience for late-night visitors. Dubbed…

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Projection Mapping With Tape Art

Berlin-based visual artist Jacques-Andre Dupont, in collaboration with artistic duo KLEBEBANDE, created a 3-hour-long visually stunning live show for the opening party at Stroke urban art fair in Berlin this year. Combining video mapping with tape…

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ecoATM Kiosk Pays Owner for Used Gadget

This is a good example of technology solving the growing problem of e-waste created by technology. The ecoATM is a patented automated self-serve kiosk that quickly evaluates and buys back used cell phones, MP3…

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Discover Your Brass Voice

Created by Aether & Hemera for the Durham International Brass Festival 2012, "Which is your brass’s voice?" is a sound and light interactive installation consisted of LED lights and 5 microphones that allows participants to discover…

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Interactive ‘Marbles’ by Studio Roosegaarde

'Marbles', Stuido Roosegaarde's latest creation, is an interactive installation consisted of large glowing forms which interact with people via sound, light and color. Each 'Marble' with embedded sensor and interactive technologies is responsive to…

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49 Quadrocopters Perform Synchronized Flying Routine

A swarm of 49 quadrocopters equipped with LED lights was seen performing a choreographed flying routine over the river Danube in Linz, Austria.  Ars Electronica teamed up with Germany’s Ascending Technologies  to create this spectacular…

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AlphaSphere Revolutionarizes the Way We Play Music

Developed by Bristol-based company, nu desine, the AlphaSphere is a brand new electronic musical instrument and controller. It revolutionarizes the way we interact with music technology, through a touch interface and a unique…

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Interactive 3D Animation Created Using 2D Drawings

What you are seeing here is the world's first drawing technology to enable 3D rendering of 2D images. Live2D, developed by Cybernoids, enables smooth 3D motion using 2D drawings. The technology is already being utilized…

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Art of the Heart

This interactive installation by hippo and Chicago-based XL at T2 Studio Company, features a heart-shaped canvas that allows shoppers in a mall to paint their own work of "heART".  Using the Kinect, a motion sensing…

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Gaming Is Coming To A Multiplex Near You

Renga is an interactive, 100 player game developed by wallFour. Ambushed and left for dead, our hero must rebuild the space ship, confront the enemy and return home.  Only this time, the "hero"…

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Time To Play With Pixels 2.0

Netherlands-based design duo Jonas Vorwerk and Yoren Schriever continue to expand their successful interactive project Pixels by adding new functions to the playful light block for people to explore.  The latest version "Pixels…

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Pulse Park Illuminates By Visitors’ Heartbeats

In Pulse Park,  Mexican-born, Canada-based artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer transforms the Westpark in Bochum, Germany, into a sea of light.  With 250 theater spotlights, this interactive light installation is 50-spotlight-bigger than his 2008 installation…

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Ron Arad’s Immersive Light Installation

Israeli artist Ron Arad creates a monumental light installation "720 Degrees" for the Israel Museum‘s Art Garden in Jerusalem. Made of 5,600 silicon rods suspended from a height of 26 feet (8 meters) to form a…

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Lab212 Lets You Swing Your Way Through the Galaxy

Inspired by a Windows 3.1 screensavers, French design studio Lab212 created an interactive installation called "Starfield" using openFrameworks, where a participant sits in a swing and explores a galaxy of stars.  Featuring a…

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