Devices
broad spectrum white leds
October 27, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnTake an LED that produces intense, blue light. Coat it with a thin layer of special microscopic beads called quantum dots. And you have what could become the successor to the venerable light bulb.
The resulting hybrid LED gives … Read More
Ambient Devices
October 21, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnPresent day computer technology, including PDA’s and cellphones, utilize only a fraction of our sensory and cognitive capabilities.
Ambient devices elegantly embed digital information into the objects and environments that surround us. These displays are in the form of … Read More
Disco Dance Floor
October 11, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnOkay this isn’t ground breaking interactive architecture but I love the dedication.
Watch the Video and check out the Documentation of the Project
# 1,536 LEDs # 128 square feet # 4,096 colors # 30 frames/second # 20,000 hand-soldered … Read More
lightspace – Low Res Interactive hypersurfaces
October 7, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnLightspace provides interactive lighting and entertainment products to numerous industries including Nightclubs, Family Entertainment Centers, Theme Parks, Fashion Shows, Special Events, Stage Lighting & Sound, Health Clubs and Architectural Lighting & Design.
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UVA – LED Walls – Kabaret London
October 2, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsUVA are producers and designers of performance video and environmental graphics for live events. Last year they installed one of these systems into the Kabaret Club on Beak Street, Soho, London.
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Barco’s MiPix Modular LED Blocks allowing … Read More
VirtuSphere Immersive Virtual Reality
September 4, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnVirtuSphere provides a mechnical basis for truly immersive virtual reality environments, permitting the user to move about in virtual space by simply walking.
The device consists of a large hollow sphere which is mounted on a specially designed … Read More
Listening Post – Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin
August 11, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentVideo
Listening Post won the Golden Nica at the 2004 Ars Electronica Festival in the category of Interactive Art; other winners included Creative Commons and the Wikipedia
Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time … Read More