Visualization

Articulated Surface is a project created by three students (Justine Holzman, Ji Park and Luke Venable) for their Responsive Systems course at LSU's Landscape Architecture program. The proposal uses real-time data from the Atchafalaya River Basin to create a dynamic art installation and public...

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...

City Fireflies is an installation created by design and technology collective UNCODED for the facade at the Prado MediaLab in Madrid. The game functions by using light from cell phones as controllers that remove the "threats" that are...

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...

James and Joshua over at the Rockwell Group labs are getting some recognition in this years IxDAwards for their Plug-In-Play project installed in late 2010 at Richard Meier's San Jose City Hall. The project functioned via "stations" placed...

“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...

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...

Cisco has released this overview infographic of the IoT which speaks of the potential size (50 billion things versus Intels 31 billion) and they bring up a few examples and technologies (including IPv6) as other reasons for the massive increase in devices over the...

Intel has been putting their weight behind the IoT with their Intel Embedded initiative, and now they have released this infographic that illustrates a timeline of the rise of devices since 1960 to an estimated 31 billion devices online by 2020 (I assume they...

Updated annually since 1995 the annual Hype Cycle graphic created by Gartner tracks their perspective on specific technologies and their progress through a life-cycle from "technology trigger" to "plateau of productivity".  This year the Internet of Things...

London based design firm Digit has decided to spice up their office routine by adding some real world competition and fitness to their daily routines with an in-house project City Peaks that "makes mountain ranges out of staircases" The game is powered by a combination...

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...

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...

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 Spotify Box is the work of Jordi Parra as part of his final degree project at the Umeå Institute of Design. It was recently given a "Disrupting Concept" award at the 2012 interaction design awards and he is currently working out the...

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...

LiveHoods is a project developed by a group of Urban Computing researchers at Carnegie Mellon focused on "studying the dynamics, structure, and character of a city on a large scale using social media and machine learning."Starting with New York City, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh the team...

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...