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Feel Me is a simple and new way to enrich digital communications.

Think of someone special in your life. When you are together with that person you can communicate in different ways: you can either talk or you can connect nonverbally –for instance by smiling, looking into each other’s eyes, holding hands, and so on. Yet, when you are apart communications tend to be much more explicit. You can certainly talk trough SMS and emails but how can you connect nonverbally?

Based on the finding for which communications with a special person are not about content going back and forth but rather about perceiving the presence of the other person on the other side, Feel Me opens a real-time interactive channel.

Feel Me has been designed and implemented by Marco Triverio as his final project at CIID (Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design).

Imagine this in a world where hi-definition haptic touch has become a reality; the implications are huge. 

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Livecodelab is a place where you can make fancy "on-the-fly" 3d visuals and play awesomely offbeat (literally) sounds.

"On-the-fly" meaning: as you type. Type just three letters: "box", and boom! a box appears. No clicking play, no waiting, no nothing.

The Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Canada has developed a Star Trek-like human-size 3d videoconferencing pod that allows people in different locations to video conference as if they are standing in front of each other.

"Why skype when you can talk to a life-size 3d holographic image of another person?" says Professor Roel Vertegaal, director of the Human Media Lab.

The technology is called TeleHuman and looks like something from the Star Trek Holodeck. Two people simply stand in front of their own life-size cylindrical pods and talk to 3d hologram-like images of each other. cameras capture and track 3d video and convert it into the life-size surround image. Since the 3d video image is visible 360 degrees around the pod, the person can walk around it to see the other person's side or back.

The researchers also created a 3D holographic anatomical browser called BodiPod, which allows students to examine medical imaging data using the cylindrical display

This summer, when your hunger is ravishing, but your fridge is empty, there is one device that can change your destiny. Some people call it a 'pizza emergency button for your belly'. Others say it's the 'best thing since sliced bread'. Dubai piza shop Red Tomato call it 'The VIP Fridge Magnet'.

The Rachel's Wave, 2011
Inlaid maps, acrylic on panel
30 x 42 inches

The "Spectrum" screen saver from Mac OS X is alternated by the use of five Quicktime video players which also reproduce the own screen saver in different times and sizes, following a decreasing and centered composition.

Jarno Smeets is mechanical engineer from the Netherlands who loves mountainbiking, kiting and hanggliding. Fascinated by new technology, robotics, aerodynamics and science in general, Smeets had what he describes as "a crazy plan". A plan to build his own wings, and fly with it.

A short skateboard video from SALAZAR featuring, Bradley Sheppard, Alien, Nate Lacoste, Chris Connolly, Nate Roline, Stacy Gabriel, Desmond Hoostie, Mike Klinkhamer, and Rob Rickaby, covered in chalk creating an aesthetically pleasing effect.

A supermarket scanner that recognizes objects could make barcodes obsolete.

By Toshiba Tec

Agency Republic's 'change the tune' poster is embedded with a simple “knock” sensor that detects vibrations, which in-turn is hooked up to a micro arduino board and finally synced with Spotify