Firewall is a new interactive artwork by New York media artist Aaron Sherwood created in collaboration with Michael Allison. The presentation is relatively straightforward but still visually stunning: different ‘modes’ of light are projected onto a taut membrane of spandex which then reacts kinetically in response to touch. Firewall was made using Processing, Max/MSP, Arduino and a Kinect that work in tandem to create the experience and will be used in an upcoming performance art piece involving dancer Kiori Kawai who will interact with the piece on stage. Learn more over on Sherwood’s blog. 
 
VIDEO HERE: http://vimeo.com/54882144#

The Smartpet Robot Dog is the newest pet robot in the world from BANDAI, Japan! It works with the iPhone or iTouch through bluetooth. It can act in 6 different positions while singing and dancing at rhythms.

Flashkus is a recyclable cardboard flash drives that comes in easy-to-use strips. This concept is by Russian-based design studio Art Lebedev.

Latvian conceptual artist and creative director Voldemars Dudums created this insanely clever bird feeder using an old computer keyboard and some cubes of bacon fat. When the birds would fly down to snack their inadvertent key presses were fed to an api that parsed each little tap into a bonafide tweet on the @hungry_birds Twitter account (fyi, these particular feathered friends became political during the U.S. elections, so there’s that). The birds, mostly tomtits, would tweet roughly 100 times each day and could even be watched live over on Birds on Twitter. It even landed Dudums a people’s choice award for Guerrilla Innovation in Advertising. Unfortunately the project went offline in March of this year, as that’s when the cryptic avian tweets cease. I feel like a schmuck for being so late to the party on this, but reading through the archive of tweets is still pretty entertaining for random literary gems like “OOOMMMGGGGG” and “AIAIAIA”.

part bionic and organic..not a cyborg!!!

Designs For Better Energy Use

The "invisible iPhone keyboard" is the creation of Swiss designer Florian Kräutli. Using the iPhone's built-in three-dimesnional accelerometer, the has developed an application that translates vibrations from different surfaces caused by tapping. reflected onto a paper keyboard as guidelines, the app is then calibrated using special software, where a program generates a series of defined patterns using the frequencies collected  from the data. From this, each different vibration is then converted as a simulated key press on the 'invisible keyboard'.

iPhone PRO is a camera created by South Korean designer Choi Jinyoung. iPhone Pro has 4.5 inch wide LCD and 2 side button, it can use 3D camera. It can be used more professionally by setting DSLR lens, Beam projector, portable speaker and removable hard disk and so on in the rear of the camera.  It designed for users who do high standard work or hobby.

This is the by Cute Circuit, which was put together by embedding LEDs and hooking it up to display tweets that were sent to a Twitter account that it was linked to online. It was don't by Nicole Scherzinger, who wore it to the launch of a new 4G network from Everything Everywhere in the UK. If you wanted to see your messages displayed on the dress were instructed to send their tweets to @EE or post them with the #tweetthedress hashtag

iRock is a power generating rocking chair that charges Apple devices. The chair’s rocking motion is harnessed by gears that in turn wind a generator. The chair also includes an iPad dock and speakers. iRock is currently being developed for sale by Swiss furniture retailer Micasa.