IntelW‘s Research Lab has come up with a awesome idea to incorporate in toys. By using a KinectW like camera they can see shapes and give them contextual interaction with their environment.
This experiment gives a glimpse into the future which is really interesting. Are we going to shape all our experiences with rich interactive programmed content or is this a logical step in evolution? Anyhoe good busy Intel, it makes me think.
Via Engadget
Via 4D Fiction
Really kewl video from Berg and DentsuW, how (interactive) media can be incorporated in a creative and fun way!
Media surfaces: Incidental Media from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
Via BoingBoing
Three concepts of the future of digital books. I really like the Alice concept.
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.
Via BoingBoing
The people at ABC (American Broadcasting CompanyW) and The Nielsen CompanyW have come up with a smart solution to synchronize content from your TV to your iPad so you can use the latter one as a true second screen.
By using some kind of audio fingerprinting, the ABC serie My Generation sync’s to the My Generation iPad app, providing the user with extra (interactive) content about the show, while watching the show.
I think this technology could get very interesting in the not to distant future.
Via Engadget
If you got an iPadW you must, I repeat MUST, download Flipboard. This is a social (and I mean social) magazine which aggregates content your friends share via TwitterW and FacebookW, but also from sites like BoingBoingW and The OnionW in an extremely nice design. I think the concept and execution it is quite brilliant. A very high “Why didn’t I think of this?”
Influential pioneer who defined the alternate reality entertainment genre worldwide. Sean Stewart is an award-winning science fiction novelist, a groundbreaking figure in transmedia storytelling, and the most experienced and influential writer of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) in the world. A graduate of the University of Alberta in Edmonton and currently based in California, Sean has founded four genre defining companies including 42 Entertainment and Fourth Wall Studios, behind ARG campaigns including The Beast, I Love Bees, Year Zero, and Vanishing Point (Microsoft). In publishing, he has continued to push the envelope of the traditional novel with the transmedia Cathys Book, a New York Times and international bestseller currently published in twenty countries and a dozen languages around the world. For more information about this TEDxTalk or TEDxEdmonton, visit http://www.tedxedmonton.com.
I love the music and the clip… Nice how you can fill in the blank spots… (show! don’t tell)