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Smart LightRaise 60wi2 interactive projector offers differentiated touch and pen recognition
The Smart LightRaise 60wi2 interactive projector combines powerful SMART Meeting Pro collaboration software with an industry-leading user interface. With ultra-short-throw capabilities, you can project onto almost any surface—including dry-wipe whiteboards and meeting room walls. It’s the first interactive projector to offer differentiated touch and pen recognition, allowing up to four users to simultaneously write, draw…
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Interactive Super Mario Coin Block lamp lights brings back arcade gaming memories
We just came across the perfect lighting solution for just about any Super Mario-themed bedroom. An interactive lamp designed after the coin blocks in the legendary Super Mario videogame, this one sports energy-efficient LED lights and is a 6-inch plexiglass cube. Also, the lamp comes with a touch-sensitive button at its base that you could…
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Mercedes Benz uses interactive advertising for Viano minivan at Berlin subway station
Advertisements don’t really need to be an annoying interruption to our day-to-day lives. When given a touch of technology, these modes of marketing could very well turn interesting and bring smiles too! Take this interactive advertisement campaign by Mercedes Benz for instance. Set up at Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse subway station, Mercedes Benz advertised its new Viano…
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Ferrite interactive liquid desktop toy helps pass boring work hours
If staring blankly at a lava lamp seems like a great way to kill time, or if sticking your fingers on a plasma lamp makes you giggle like a happy infant, this brilliant innovation by David Markus is bound to have to pretty distracted once placed on your work table. Called the Ferrite, this one’s…
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Giving fairytales a breath of life, interactive mirror allows kids to participate in stories
One of the best parts of our childhoods includes dreaming of fairytales, wishing we were part of them. Kids today now have a chance to step closer to the fairytales they’ve been narrated, passed down through generations. Called the “Through the Looking Glass”, this interactive mirror by Romy van den Broek incorporates a highly-reflective LCD…
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SCALA demoes Transparent Interactive Display you can play with
SCALA seems to have touched a new level with interactive display with its touch screen display which is currently being demoed at the Digital Signage Japan 2011 event. It has a Samsung Transparent Display technology equipped with a touch interface and software that allows seamless user-machine interaction. The makers say that with this kind of…
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Podotree CubeDog brings enhanced interactivity to games
3D interactive applications aren’t new to us but they aren’t used to getting published all the time on various blogs. Enter CubeDog, an interactive app that packs a fair deal of user customization in conjunction with the integration of a compass and gyroscope among other things. What separates the Podotree CubeDog is its ability to…
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San Francisco’s MUNI Bus System gets interactive game-equipped bus stops
Residents of San Francisco will no longer complain about waiting for the bus. Several bus stops on the MUNI line have been set up with touch-capable video screens, which allow you to kill time with games like puzzles and trivia. This service is available at 20 stops in the Bay Area and is sponsored by…
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Firefly environment brings the floor to life
You aren’t seeing a dream as you sift the traces reality from the video we have hence. It’s something that totally brings about the magic in every footstep. Behold the awesome interactive environment called Firefly. It was commissioned for Shanghai World Expo 2010. The new trend of urban lighting that it defines is likely to…
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Now you can play the drums anywhere with Microsoft’s interactive 3D ‘Mobile Surface’
The world of Augmented Reality has just been rocked really hard by Microsoft’s latest development. They’ve just demoed a working concept of a portable projector like device that can convert any surface into a multi-touch 3D interface for your mobile device, smartphone, netbook etc. This ‘Mobile Surface’ tool will project an image onto any surface…
