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Bare - Skin Safe Conductive Ink

2009-08-21T05:04:00.000-07:00

Bare is a conductive ink that is applied directly onto the skin allowing the creation of custom electronic circuitry. This innovative material allows users to interact with electronics through gesture, movement, and touch. Bare can be applied with a brush, stamp or spray and is non-toxic and temporary. Application areas include dance, music, computer interfaces, communication and medical devices. Bare is an intuitive and non-invasive technology which will allow users to bridge the gap between electronics and the body.

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Visible Sound

2009-08-03T03:48:00.000-07:00

The intention for this project was to make sound visible. As there is already a variety of ways in which sounds can be seen (equalizers, sub-titles, etc.), the aim was to produce a device where that representation of sound would be a physical one.
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Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons

2009-07-21T23:27:00.000-07:00

Physical buttons have the unique ability to provide low-attention and vision-free interactions through their intuitive tactile clues.
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Ink Calendar

2009-07-16T23:44:00.001-07:00

The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are "printed" daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. A calendar self-updated, which enhances the perception of time passing and not only signaling it.
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Electronic Rule

2009-07-16T05:36:00.000-07:00

Electronic Ruler is a concept design by Shay Shafranek
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Siftables

2009-06-16T01:15:00.000-07:00

Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications. more

Eyelight

2009-06-12T00:12:00.000-07:00

Adding a precision control system to an array of high brightness LEDs transforms the ubiquitous object of a light bulb into a end node of a global surveillance system: A restless eye appears and is attracted to any nearby movement to gaze onto and analyze it. more

Airpiano

2009-06-09T05:35:00.000-07:00

The AirPiano is an innovative musical interface which allows playing and controlling software instruments simply by moving hands in the air. The AirPiano is still in its prototype phase and its concept of a virtual matrix might eventually be used for other applications and purposes.

Brighthandle

2009-04-02T01:25:00.000-07:00

Brighthandle is committed to bring change to the handle industry. We create innovative products and solutions that increase value and functionality of the door handle from an end user perspective. In addition to this, Brighthandle dramatically enhances the esthetics of the door environment from a design perspective.
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littleBits

2008-06-17T21:50:00.000-07:00

littleBits is a library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.
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Hono

2008-04-08T12:36:00.001-07:00

Candlelight sways in invisible faint flow of air. The mysteriousness may be the charm of the candlelight. However, the light source is fire, and thus not all places are suitable for it. A white acrylic tube that encloses candlelight is imaged, and the light that catches the tiniest breeze is realized by using LED.
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Topobo

2008-03-20T05:22:00.001-07:00

Topobo is a 3D constructive assembly system with kinetic memory, the ability to record and playback physical motion. By snapping together a combination of Passive (static) and Active (motorized) components, people can quickly assemble dynamic biomorphic forms like animals and skeletons with Topobo, animate those forms by pushing, pulling, and twisting them, and observe the system repeatedly play back those motions.
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tenori-on

2007-09-12T12:39:00.000-07:00

The TENORI-ON 16 x 16 LED button matrix is simultaneously a performance input controller and display. The TENORI-ON provides six different performance and sound/light modes for broad performance versatility, and these modes can be combined and used simultaneously for rich, complex musical expression.
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Forecast

2007-04-17T01:21:00.000-07:00

A model for appropriate embedded technology, The FORECAST umbrella provides information about the likelihood of rain so that users can make a simple, informed decision about whether to take their umbrella with them as they leave their home.
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table recorder

2007-03-26T03:04:00.000-07:00

The »table recorder« is actually a completely normal wooden table and may be used as such. however, it produces sounds if touched at certain spots on the table top or if something is being put down on it. the progression of the sounds being created are recorded and reproduced in different modi.
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Design by Gravity

2007-03-26T02:31:00.000-07:00

Front designed a lamp that reacts to your movements -
It wakes up to lighten the room when you enter and lays down when you exit.
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RGBy

2007-02-11T08:09:00.000-08:00

RGBy picks up the colour of its surround and lights up in that colour. It can trace the colour of any object from the green of plant to the red of your favourite TShirt. By pressing the switch on top of the lamp, RGBy senses the colour and lights up.
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Chameleon

2007-02-11T08:00:00.000-08:00

Chameleon is a lamp shade that changes to match any color you 'show' it... A traditional bulb at the centre of the lamp provides white light above and below the lamp, while an LED ring around this light projects a selected color into the shade, while at the same time preventing the white light from diluting the color being projected.

The Robotic Chair

2006-11-23T02:39:00.000-08:00

A chair on its own.
The Robotic Chair falls to pieces and then manages to build itself up again. With the help of a built-in camera, the robot can search for its missing parts and put them to their proper places.
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The Heat sensitive Lamp

2006-11-15T05:28:00.000-08:00

In the ‘Heat-Sensitive Lamp’ example, the lamp takes its shape as the lamp is turned on for the first time, its material composition determined by the heat of light bulb. This example highlights electricity as an essential material in the design of a lamp – in fact, energy itself participates in the design of the aesthetic form of the object.
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Walls With Ears

2006-11-11T12:45:00.001-08:00

A traditional textile heritage is celebrated with flocked wallpaper that comes to life as it reacts to ambient noise levels. The louder the space the brighter the wallpaper glows. It explores the experience of human presence and action having a tangible effect on space and provides a direct and analogue reflection of this by addressing the point where ambient space ends and surface begins.
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Katazukue

2006-11-07T07:58:00.000-08:00

Katazukue is a table which ensures it is always clear. The table has a powerful pair of integrated conveyor belts which periodically move anything on the table onto the floor. On another level the piece is intended as a metaphor for technology generally - technology both gives us something as well as taking something away from us.
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Instant Labeling Tape

2006-11-07T07:24:00.000-08:00

This is a simple, customisable, do-it-yourself signage system. By "blacking out" elements of a 14-segment display font on the tape, all you need is a black permanent pen to create your own temporary signs, labels and installations.
...rolls are 65 metres.
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PixelShade

2006-11-07T07:19:00.000-08:00

Pixel Shade is a 'light shade' that forever renews itself and can temporarily 'print out' any kind of digital information continously on the large phosphorescent shade. Patterns can be any image from your holiday in greece to elaborate william morris prints.
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Power Point

2006-11-07T06:53:00.000-08:00

Power Point is designed to make visible the amount of power being consumed by each mains socket in a direct and immediate way.
It can send information through existing power cables, and pass information about patterns of power consumption to a central database or turn off sockets pre-defined as nonessential in the event of power failure.
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Sketch Furniture

2006-11-07T06:17:00.000-08:00

Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space? FRONT has developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined. Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real objects.
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Plable

2006-11-07T05:42:00.000-08:00

Plable is a table with a normal surface on the topside and an ‘imaginary’ playworld underneath. The idea is that children can build their own playland underneath the table while adults interact by moving objects – a cup of tea or a newspaper – on the topside to trigger events underneath.
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