Flicflex - Flexible Interface

Flicflex - Flexible Interface

Flicflex explores the possibilities of future flexible electronic interfaces that could emerge within digital products. By minimizing the graphical interface and embodying physical interactions such as flipping, wrenching and bending, it creates more pleasurable ways of managing information.

Toshiba’s Motion Controlled Notebook

Toshiba’s Motion Controlled Notebook

Motion controlled devices are hot at the moment. Chris Hardwick takes a look at a motion controlled notebook by Toshiba. You can control it with your hand. From a distance. Making a fist shows the menu. Thumbs up is for making a selection. The video tells the rest. Skip the first 30 seconds to go straight to the demo.

BMW GINA - Flexible Skin Car

BMW GINA - Flexible Skin Car

Chris Bangle, director of design at BMW, gives us a first impression of the ideas behind the BMW GINA. A car with a flexible skin that can be sculpted into all kinds of shapes and forms. It adds a human touch to the car.

Water Slide Looping

Water Slide Looping

In Germany they didn’t think it was enough to simply go down a water slide. So they added a bit of a rollercoaster effect to it. You get launched downwards by pulling away the surface that you’re standing on so you can gather enough speed to go through the water slide looping.

Mona Lisa Winks

Mona Lisa Winks

Art enthusiasts are being given the chance to talk to their favorite maestros about their work. Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci are among the virtual painters and sculptors that are on hand to answer questions at a new art exhibition in South Korea. Mona Lisa is brought to life too. Watch the video.

YouTube’s Coolest New Feature

YouTube’s Coolest New Feature

After YouTube’s integrated video advertising, they just added another cool feature: Annotations. It allows you to add text and links to your YouTube videos. Really cool. Here’s an interactive card trick which shows you what that looks like. I included a ‘how to’ video to help you get started. Feel free to mail me your results after adding annotations to some of your own videos.

Free-Air Interactivity

Free-Air Interactivity

About a month ago my post about the interactive hologram generated quite a lot of buzz on the web. Here’s a new video which shows the same technology being used in other situations. For example: Browsing through your photos or having a look at a car from any angle by simply moving your hand in the air.

Since It’s Friday - Walking Ladder

Since It’s Friday - Walking Ladder

The weekend is about to start. Time for a creation that puts a smile on your face. I picked the Walking Ladder by Niklas Roy. It is a remote controlled ladder with a joystick shaped like a paint can with a brush. Handy… Or not? Have a good weekend!

Hybrid Bike

Hybrid Bike

Tokyo based Axle Corporation has introduced a new electric motorbike with a hybrid plug-in, electromagnetic-permanent magnet motor, and is seven times more cost-efficient than scooters running on petrol. The company hopes to apply the technology to four wheelers.

Fusion Man

Fusion Man

Fusion Man has taken human flight to brand new heights. All that was needed was a pair of home made jet wings, a plane and the Swiss Mountains.

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