Video
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Internet Machine
Internet machine is a multi-screen film about the invisible infrastructures of the internet, shot inside one of the largest and most secure data centres in the world, run by Telefónica in Alcalá, Spain. I made it to show the physical reality of our data: the rooms, racks and machines through which ‘the cloud’ is transmitted and transformed.
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The films of Adam Lisagor
I’ve been quite taken with the films of Adam Lisagor for a while. He’s good at surfacing the joy and pleasure in some of the smallest interactions, particularly evident in this ad for the Jambox by Jawbone .
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A phone to save us from our screens?
Microsoft has two new ads, anticipating their upcoming Windows Phone 7 launch. The first is an almost post-apocalyptic vision of humanity stuck with their heads in their mobile devices: Here’s David Webster , chief strategy officer in Microsoft’s central marketing group, explaining their anti-screen strategy: The problem of glowing rectangles is a subject close to my heart , and Matt Jones has been bothered by the increase in mobile glowing attention-wells . I think Microsoft & Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s advertising strategy stands out in a world full of slick floaty media . The only problem is that without any strategy towards tangible interaction, I’m not sure the ’tiles’ interaction concept is strong enough to actually take people’s attention out of the glass.
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Proximity payments
YouTube – The new PayPal iPhone app seems to use the Bump API to match up two physical gestures and make a payment. (I even like their tacky faux-anthropology video). And Square has just announced their payment app for the iPad.
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3D secret – hidden pictures
Beautiful new exploratory game for the Nintendo DS, that uses the front-facing camera and face tracking to calculate a perspective that renders like a window on a new world. DSi?????????????? . Via BERG
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Augmented (hyper)Reality
Augmented (hyper)Reality by Keiichi Matsuda A competent visualisation of an undesirable future.
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Aurora: Mozilla Labs concept video by Adaptive Path
Aurora is a concept video exploring one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept series.
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The original Nintendo Wii trailer
The original trailer for the Nintendo Wii (when it was still the “Revolution”). The first time we got to see such tangible, gestural gaming in the mainstream. (note how little we see the screen)