..and less than 500 SEK.
Guys who made the software here (NUIGroup) and here (Whitenoiseaudio). NUIGroup has Actionscript 3 files as well.
Download Touchlib from here. OSX users need to compile from source.
Another blog with instructions.
And more Touchlib related stuff here. (including Windows binaries compiled from Subversion)
Greenbox
The guys who brought you something called Flash, are now making you energy-aware. The Greenbox Home Energy Manager empowers homeowners to understand and manage their energy consumption. With knowledge of their energy use, consumers can take proactive steps to conserve energy, understand their impact on the environment, and save money.
It’s basically a web-based energy consumption monitoring tool. Nothing to see yet, though.
Agilewaves
Agilewaves has developed the Resource Monitor, which continuously measures electric, gas and water consumption of a home or business, calculates its carbon footprint in real-time and makes this information readily available on a wall-mounted touchscreen or web page.
Lucid Design Building Dashboard
Building Dashboard® is a web-based display technology that visualizes energy and water use and helps us to improve the environmental performance of buildings. Check out your consumption right now, or look at consumption patterns over time. Don’t understand what a kilowatt-hour is? Instead, see how many dollars you’re spending or pounds of CO2 you’re emitting into the atmosphere. Go a step further and instantly compare your building’s energy and water use with other buildings, or launch a competition and rival your friends and coworkers to reduce their consumption.
all via earth2tech
Whitevoid is an Interaction Design company from Germany. But that’s not the amazing thing. Their website is 3-D, and for the first time it really makes sense and looks amazing.
You might want to check this out as well.
Flare-Facade is their latest project, which basically is an animated wall.
Thursday 4th – Tuesday 9th September in Linz, Austria.
The age of copyright and intellectual property has reached its expiration date. A development that already manifested itself in the technical fundamentals of the Internet has reared its head in the actual practices of a young generation of users and is bringing forth a new economy of sharing and open access.
Good topic. I’m going.
If the concept doesn’t interest you, at least the mans horrible finnish accent will make you laugh.
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Total Immersion‘s software D’FUSION is a real time visual software which makes possible to create Augmented Reality Applications with standard PC receiving one or several video inputs, with high performance and high quality images.
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I really like this video since it’s quite sketchy but challenging for the mind. Be sure to check out other (more traditionnal AR) videos/demos on their gallery page here.
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Antivj is a group that does very, very nice light installations using existing architecture and more. Make sure you watch the whole video.
via Freshcreation check this for more videos.
Litraconâ„¢ is a combination of optical fibres and fine concrete. It can be produced as prefabricated building blocks and panels. Due to the small size of the fibres, they blend into concrete becoming a component of the material like small pieces of aggregate. In this manner, the result is not only two materials – glass in concrete – mixed, but a third, new material, which is homogeneous in its inner structure and on its main surfaces as well.
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I have played around with these classes the last couple of weeks… and yesterday I had the time to have a closer look at Papervision 3D. And I think its worth trying it out. Its a pack of classes for Flash as3 to add a 3rd dimension to Flash. Its really easy to use and looks great. I mean the basics are so easy, so you don’t really have to learn anything, just one more parameter (z axis).
There are some great video tutorials about Papervision on gotoandlearn.com to get started. I recommend to have a look at the other tutorials too. These tutorials are great, with example files to download and very focused on designers like us. Its Lee Brimelow of Frog who is doing these tutorials. The tutorials are very basic… great for beginners! Everthing is explained… e.g. how to download and use classes in flash. And its very interesting to see how Lee works with Flash, I think you can learn a lot about tools, workflow etc by watching some of these tutorials.
To make papervision really useful its its necessary to smoothly move, scale etc objects on stage (tween them). Therefor there is a another great package, Tweener. (there are also tutorials about it on gotoandlearn) With Tweener and Papervision its really easy to make interactive Cover Flows or similar things in Flash. I’ve worked with MosesSupposes Fuse Kit before, but its only as2 (for now) and so doesn’t work with Papervision.
It would be great if you share your favourite Classes, tools and tutorials for Flash here too!
I invite you to browse and discover Password, the quarterly magazine published by Philips Research.
http://www.research.philips.com/password/archive/index.html
Philips Design also publishes its own new value by Design [website].
Worth checking and big thanks to Mine Danisman for her presentation and visit at UID. Mine graduated from the Interaction Program in 2006 and have been working at Philips Design since. You can check her portfolio at www.minedanisman.com.
iTunes U is an area of iTunes that lets universities in the US share – for free! – audio and video from their lectures, talks and events. The contents are globally accessible.
By clicking on Power Search, you can easily limit the regular iTunes search to iTunes U.
Of particular interest to the readers of this blog is Stanford University’s Human-Computer Interaction Seminar, consisting of no less than 36 lectures by people such as Bill Moggridge, Bill Buxton, Elizabeth Churchill, Paul Dourish and Donald Norman.
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A good video introducing and showcasing openFrameworks, a very nice framework for artists, coders, designers and everything in between. It all C++ and very powerful. Let me know if you are interested in it, I would love to play with with some folk at UID.
