Highway consultant firm Atkins´ came up with a new kind of speeding-sign. A sign that , on top of showing you your speed and asking you to slow down, if your speeding that is, also shows you your licence plate number.

Fully Functional, Mobile e-Reader Demonstrates Viability of Rollable-display Concept

A pre-fabricated wall unit supporting a urinal is installed in an existing gallery toilet. The urinal is sensitised to allow participants (both male & female) to draw using their urine. The resulting drawings are displayed in real-time in the gallery space, then automatically uploaded onto the internet.

Digit developed a technology so users were could write on the walls with a custom made ‘virtual spray can’, the movements tracked via ultrasound. The movements were back projected onto glass panels, creating a virtual graffiti wall and the sensation of writing in ‘light’. In real time the movements affect and create sounds.

All superheroes and superheroines have to find a place to hone their fighting skills. Many times these places are high tech installations full of traps and tests to push the hero or heroine to the edge of their ability. A true superperson will be able to confront their fears and weaknesses and conquer them. Unfortunately, most offices aren’t set up for superhero fight training. Until you break out the Mazu Kan, that is.

What happens when you mix those sumo wrestling fat suits with arty digital media? The answer is Ho Fatso, a new interactive installation by artist Rania Ho.

With the tap of a single finger, computer users soon may be drawn deeper into the virtual world using a new device developed in the University at Buffalo’s Virtual Reality Lab.

At 0.5mm thick, the sensor layer can recognize touch and gestures through up to 1.6mm of plastic, making it far more durable and optically clear than traditional multi-layer touchscreens. And above and beyond those touchscreens it can recognize one or two finger contact, a finger used on its side, or even different body parts; a phone call to Onyx can be answered by simply holding it to your cheek, messages sent by swiping them off the screen with the whole finger.

Digital Information Development (DID) has developed a highly portable virtual piano that is played with a keyboard consisting of projected laser beams.

More gentle than the jarring noise of traditional alarms, this clock uses a gradual increase in ambient light, stimulating aromas, and peaceful sounds from nature to awaken sleepers.