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Digital business cards. Show your business contacts that you are cutting edge:

http://www.augmentedbusinesscard.net

Well done Oblong industries, very cool technology. A mouse is a device our grandchildren will probabely laugh about. posted by Markus

http://vimeo.com/2229299

The new Sony Bravia ambient advert

Fallon’s latest ad for Sony Bravia features an enormous zoetrope in Venaria, a town near Turin in northern Italy. The zoetrope has been causing a stir online for the last couple of months, with Sony posting films of it in action on YouTube while the ad was being created. The zoetrope presents a series of still images of the footballer Kaká, which when rotated (at speeds up to 50km per hour) and viewed through small slits on the outside of the zoetrope, give the illusion of being animated. posted by Gemma

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/the-sony-bravia-zoetrope/

Featured site in the .net magazine. The interaction by drawing for sure is fun, the illustrations are beautiful. Good Job, Grey and unit9. posted by Markus

 http://www.toshiba.eu/whatnext/

 She is so smart, it almost hurts. A must view, but after work please (it’s almost an hour). posted by Markus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soYKFWqVVzg

nice prototype posted by Markus

http://der-mo.net/relationBrowser/RB_v1.15_demo/social%20network/index.html

more here:

http://der-mo.net

beautiful information graphics posted by Markus

This week, I have been mostly loving the work of Chuck Anderson.  Beautiful static imagery, combining photography and light effects. 

Posted by Phil

Some really nice examples of data visualisation and inforgraphics

Posted by Phil

http://critica.us/product-design/invisual-a-tactile-silicone-case-for-the-apple-iphone/

Check out this guys print and illustration work… very nice indeed. His illustrative approach to information graphics is really very refreshing. posted by Chris

http://www.wonksite.com

These guys surely know how to entertain you on a monumental scale. And commercially speaking, they definitely have means to create a ‘wow’ factor for any event, exhibition or building opening or even a product launch. They specialise in 3D-Mapping Video Projection which is a much more evolved way of projecting a piece of information on a massive surface or architecural structure. Compared to the usual projection of static images we’ve seen around…

http://www.easyweb.fr/slideshow.html

This piece of technology is still quite amazing to watch. Especially as it allows more than one person to work independently or simultaneously. It is, indeed, a new way of interacting with digital content. That’s a lot more fun!

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html

I’m sure you’ve all seen or used Cooliris by now, but if not it a rather sexy way of shopping and browsing pics and videos. Just thought I’d get it up here to spark some thinking about the way we browses multiple items e.g. order tickets, instruments, charts, videos etc…

http://www.cooliris.com

 From the guys from hi-Res!/Nanika/Hahakid (isn’t it all the same guys?)

 yes, this could be pimped up quite a bit, but the idea is cool and beautiful.

http://www.hahakid.net/tentacleclock_alpha/tentacleclock_alpha.html