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New York based design studio Breakfast worked with rider Janeen McCrae to enable her bike named "Precious" to share its speed, location, temperature and more to the world as they traveled across the country in 2010 to raise money for the LIVESTRONG charity.During its 3 month journey...

The Ambient Furniture project lead by MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media group Hiroshi Ishii, David Rose, and Shaun Salzberg consists of 6 prototype furniture concepts that mix "apps with the IKEA catalog" to explore ideas on peripheral awareness, incidental gestures, pre-attentive processing, and eavesdropping...

City Dashboard is a project created by researchers at the CASA research lab that gives you a quick and easy way to check the real-time "pulse" of your city via a single page that aggregates and displays information from public API's and a range...

SENSEable City Lab and SNCF have produced CO2GO, a smartphone app that uses a combination of your phones built in GPS and sensor systems to calculate your total carbon footprint in real-time. The application is...

Color Forecast is an app and website developed by fashion brand Pimkie that shows you which colors are trending in Europe's fashion capitals in real-time. Video cameras were placed strategically in high fashion/traffic areas in Paris, Milan, and Antwerp and then fed back into...

London's "Silicon Roundabout" seems to be on a roll these days with "the Good Night Lamp" to be the latest product to make an appearance from this group of talented companies. Initiated by Design Swarm Industries each lamp "family" is composed of a large...

The Descriptive Camera created by Matt Richardson (@MattRichardson) as part of a Computational Camera class at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program takes an entirely new approach to photography and metadata by creating a device that turns your captured imagery into words via Amazon's Mechanical Turk service and a...

“connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to us” DisplayCabinet is a prototype developed over the course of 24 hours by Ben Bashford, Dan Williams, and Tim Burrell-Saward for last...

The fashion brand C&A in Brazil has launched a new 'Fashion Like' campaign for Mother's Day this year that integrates their flagship store in São Paulo to their Facebook page via digital hangers displaying a real-time like counter for each piece of clothing.Although my current...

iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory) in Brussels just completed "Generator.x 3.0 :from code to atoms" one of their openLAB workshops that focused on "how software processes can be combined with digital fabrication to produce physical objects that are the result of dynamic software systems...

The project was created by Timo Arnall, Einar Sneve Martinussen from AHO and Jack Schulze from BERG and is part of the larger research initiative Touch that investigates Near Field Communication and develops applications and services that enable people to interact with everyday objects...

Ugle is a networked wooden owl designed by Oslo based design-studio Voy that acts as a "decorative personal message system".Controlled over the internet via your iPhone, Ugle lets you send color coded messages remotely to friends and family at your home. When you select...

These 10 networked art projects show the many ways that using real-time data like weather, pollution sensors, wave monitoring and all the other outputs that are streaming around us can be used to visualize and engage our environment in new ways. 1) eCLOUD...

Instaprint is a networked photobooth designed by Brookly based design firm Breakfast that hunts within Instagrams service looking for specific hastags or locations. If it finds a public photo that matches the parameters that you have set on the backend it will automatically take...

Pebble Watch made a big debut on Kickstarter by exceeding its funding goal by $500,000 within the first 12 hours of launching, it will become just one in the latest series of Connected Watches to come to market that brings data from your smartphone...

Pulling in data from the National Digital Forecast Database Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg at Hint.Fm have put together a near real-time mapping visualization project of US wind speed and direction. Information for the map is revised once per hour so you are seeing...

Rymble- The social internet object that brings your social network to the real world. Brought to you by Symplico who focus on designing products and experiences merging the real-world and the Internet. This is their first product...

The Samsung Smart Window, currently in prototype phase and demonstrated at this year's CES features Virtual Blinds, a full touch TFT (thin-film transistor) LCD display and is said to require only 10% of normal power consumption due to being partially powered by the sun....

The Augmented Reality Sandbox funded by the NSF and the sensing technology Touché from the Disney Research team are two projects giving us a glimpse of the next phase of user interface possibilities coming our way. We take a look at them both...

Tomorrow is Another Day is a piece by Mathieu Lehanneur that gathers real-time weather data from the Internet to generate a picture of the future sky. (Credit: Mathieu Lehanneur) Conceived for the palliative-care unit at the Diaconesses/Croix-Saint-Simon Hospital Group, in Paris and...

From their site: TSPS is a cross-platform Toolkit for Sensing People in Spaces. The Toolkit for Sensing People in Spaces (TSPS) works by extending the energy of a person,...

Quadrigram is a visual programming environment tool (currently in private beta) that is a solution for any individual or organization that works intensively with information. It provides tools to formulate and answer questions with a wide variety of...

James Bridle as the closing keynote from this year's Web Directions South conference gave his talk titled "Waving at the Machines" speaking about the New Aesthetic. "So what I’m going to...

Last September in San Francisco Facebook held its annual developer conference F8. Creative agency Obscura Digital added a little spice to the event with their interactive physical installation constructed from participants Facebook social graph data they dubbed...