Glowing Interactive Circular Swings Change Colors with Motion

Höweler + Yoon Architecture Swing Time is an interactive playscape composed of 20 illuminated ring-shaped swings. The installation activates a temporary park between the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and D Street to create a new type of city park. Custom fabricated from welded polypropylene, the swings are designed in three different sizes so that the community can engage, exercise, and play with Swing Time as individuals or in groups. LED lighting within the swing is controlled by a custom micro-controller, signaling the swing's activity level. An internal accelerometer measures the acceleration forces of the swing. When forces are static and the swings are not in use, they emit a soft, white light that illuminates the area. When the swings are in motion, the micro-controller switches the light from white to purple, creating more colorful glowing effect. Swing Time's responsive play elements invite users to interact with the swings and with each other, activating the urban park and creating a community laboratory of the Innovation District and South Boston neighborhoods.

Sound activated installation at Gaussian Blur

Dawn Lamp is a table light designed by Florian Dussopt. For the Gaussian Blur event during the London Design Festival 2014, Florian Dussopt Design Studio (FDDS) turned 15 Dawn Lamps into an interactive composition. The installation is voice activated or synchronises itself to the music beat.

Telsa P85D Self Driving Vehicle

I'm posting this sole' for the Autopilot preview at the end of this video. Giving up control of something that could end your life is a scary thought but automation is here and Telsa has brought the discussion to the forefront. Zero to 60 in 3.2 seconds. A high-end, all-wheel-drive option of the Model S on Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the target for acceleration was the world's greatest supercars. What the company ended up with was 3.2 seconds from 0 to 60, something that really doesn't look like much on paper, but feels like being in a rocket ship when you're actually inside a vehicle, and ultimately behind the wheel.

World’s First 3D-Printed Car

It took 44 hours to manufacture, and has 49 parts. 
The car, known as the Strati, is perhaps the world’s fully drivable, almost completely 3D printer-manufactured automobile. Local Motors used crowd-sourced design and a custom-built 3D printer to create the one-of-a-kind (for now) 3D printed car and assembled it over six days at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago, Illinois a few weeks ago.

The all-gray Strati is somewhat larger than I expected. It sits low to the ground like a race car and features just two custom leather seats. On parts of the body, you can clearly see the printed layers, in others, the Strati has been milled to smooth perfection. The body feels, well, like plastic, but also extremely solid. It has race-car lines, but also a custom-built quality. Rogers tells me that there are 227 printed layers in the chassis and the only limit was the 3D printer. Eventually, Local Motors expects to use larger 3D printers to print even bigger cars (can you say “3D-printed SUV?).

The 3D-printed car is going to change the way car manufacturers create vehicles. By cutting down the time and cost to build cars, Local Motors has shown the automotive world that things need to change. This line of vehicle is the catalyst, and you can be the first to own it.

Museum Night in St. Petersburg audiovisual exhibition

“Не бойся” (“don’t be afraid” in Russian) was a hybrid party with a special dramaturgy, and audiovisual exhibition, the center of which was a large-scale spatial video installation, developed by a team of Austrian video artists called Neon Golden. Specifically for “Не бойся,” the founder of the collective Stefan Kainbacher and media artist Hannes Hilpold developed the concept of a spatial light installation encompassing 48 m2. The installation was composed of 1,344 pieces forming a complex negative-positive parametric structure on both sides of a later partition wall of the old mansion’s ballroom. The sculpture acted as a unique three-dimensional screen while creating the illusion that this dividing wall had ceased to exist. Throughout the course of the night, Russian musicians performed on a stage with a unique and complex design created by Neon Golden. Precise synchronization of the projections simulated the presence of a virtual architecture responsive to the music being performed by leading figures on the Russian beat-scene, including the debut performance of mysterious hip-hop producer Oligarkh (who blew up the internet with his album "Land and Freedom"), one of the most prolific new Russian musicians Micah Archangel (whose projects include Laric Surapov, Miiisha, party projects Canicool and Cops on Fire); stars of Russian juke music Raumskaya, 21 Outside and others.

Kinetic Sculpture - Fisher Technical

Fisher Technical Services, Inc. (FTSI) is a Las Vegas-based entertainment automation company best known for its sophisticated "Navigator" software and automation products. Their work spans the entertainment world from movie sets to theme parks, theaters to rock tours, and everything in between.

Cornell Cosmos Villareal

Cornell Cosmos Villareal. Outdoor projection mapping giving a sense of life to the modern architecture.

Live 3D video mapping project

53 cubes live controlled and mixed through Touchdesigner, MIDI controllers and the Kinect. Some pre made animations and camera tracking are done with Cinema 4D. Textures are realtime controlled with a second computer running Photoshop remote server.