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Pixel Track
Original film no longer hosted by Vimeo. Open in Wayback Machine . Pixel Track is a prototype of a new kind of connected display, produced by Berg in collaboration with the Future Cities Catapult. More…
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Cloudwash
Cloudwash is a prototype washing machine that was made to explore how connectivity might change the ordinary appliances in our homes. Made at BERG and designed by Durrell Bishop . More…
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Robot Readable World
A short film, an experiment with machine-vision footage, pulled together from computer vision research: face detection, motion tracking, object recognition, scanning. A glimpse of the world as cameras and algorithms register it.
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Little Printer
Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper. More…
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Suwappu
Suwappu is a set of small stackable two-piece woodland-animal toys whose tops and bottoms can be swapped between species. The toys come to life through a phone camera held above them, films and stories playing out in augmented space around each character. Made at BERG for Dentsu London, 2011.
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Making Future Magic: iPad light painting
Made at BERG for Dentsu London , this film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world. We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation. More…
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Wireless in the World
Made for the HABITAR exhibition at Laboral , Wireless in the World draws WiFi, Bluetooth and RFID fields directly onto footage of streets, shops and homes. The hidden radio environment appears as patches of colour and glowing volumes; the spaces remain ordinary. More…
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Mag+
Mag+ was an early answer to the question of what a magazine wants to be on a tablet, designed and built at BERG with Bonnier R&D between October 2009 and April 2010. The concept film described an interaction language for a device that did not yet exist; six weeks later Apple announced the iPad.
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Nearness
Nearness is a one-minute film made at BERG as part of the Touch project, with Jack Schulze and Matt Webb. It is a homage to Fischli and Weiss’s Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go, 1987), and an answer to a small question we kept asking ourselves about RFID: things don’t have to touch, they have to come close.
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Olinda: digital radio prototypes from Schulze & Webb
A note on Olinda, a set of home digital radio prototypes by Schulze & Webb (later BERG). A small number of fully functioning prototypes showing that it’s possible to design social, Web-like experiences using industry-standard DAB chip-sets and conventional manufacturing.
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Schulze on design as invention
Jack Schulze, quoted in Matt Webb’s Scope talk at reboot11, arguing that design has to invent, to create new ways of doing things and to contribute to culture. From slide 4 of 44.
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Skål
Made with Einar Sneve Martinussen and Jørn Knutsen as part of the Touch project. Skål is a media player designed for the home that lets you interact with digital media using physical objects. You place objects in a wooden bowl to play back related media on the TV. More…
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iPhone RFID: object-based media
Touch the iPhone to a record sleeve and the album plays. Touch it to a book and the cover loads. The film tries out RFID as a way of binding media to physical objects. Made as part of the Touch project . More…
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Map/Territory
Map/Territory experiments with augmented reality on physical surfaces — physical space overlaid with digital, manipulable map information.
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Woodwork
A glimpse into the processes of transforming rough wood into sculptural, formed objects. Featuring Matt Cottam.