LOGIC 2 MAGIC

http://www.experience159.com

http://www.lacoste-future.com/de/

http://vidal.jp/360snap/

Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration. Watch a robotic salamander, a water strider robot, mechanical cockroaches and some cool self-configuring robots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8Yw19bn7Q

Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

demos

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/

Commercial and Entertainment Spherical Storytelling

These Adobe Flash® Immersive Videos allow you to look around in a spherical view. Play one of our episodes or choose a city from our GeoImmersive Database

http://demos.immersivemedia.com/

A cool flashVideo site

http://www.nolaf.org/

To document MoMA’s exhibit spanning design, science and technology, “Design and the Elastic Mind”, CoolHunting enlisted the help of the show’s esteemed curator, Paola Antonelli.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAs5rqg1MPU

A Art Project and a cool site to show it, from James Auger/Jimmy Loizeau:
AfterLife: A conceptual fuel cell generates electricity from a body's decomposition to charge batteries.
http://moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/#/7/

Campaign for eBay, where the brand bought 10 tv advertising spaces of 30 seconds each. These where then auctioned , for the ebay users to announce their own products, along this campaign was the slogan: "You are eBay". This campaign was highlited by several media.

http://videolog.uol.com.br/video?330075

Via Azeem Azaar's twitter feed, a great visualization of worldwide social network market share, from Le Monde:

http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/2008/04/10.html

Ian Sands of Microsoft demonstrates the TouchWall. It is capable of infinite zooming which allows you to overview a massive amount of media and instantly viewing the content by zooming in.

The TouchWall system consisted of a PC running Vista and Plex, a 4×6 foot plexiglass screen, a rear projector, a infrared camera and the three infrared lasers. As you can see in the video, it worked, and well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPrfqdl55D0

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/14/microsoft-touchwall-can-inexpensively-turn-any-flat-surface-into-a-multi-touch-display/

Melanie Coles, a young web designer and artist, has set out to stimulate an intriguing viral game. She has hidden a huge painting of Waldo on a rooftop somewhere in Vancouver, in hopes that it will appear on Google Earth. She got an A for the project. Congratulations, Melanie!

video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2pQNuxzkwM

Site : http://www.whereonearthiswaldo.com/

Multiple Flex clients connect to the same shared object.

Sample Application:
http://www.themidnightcoders.com/weborb/dotnet/runexample.shtm?page=0

The example demonstrates the following:

* Remote SharedObject connectivity and synchronization
* Multiple Flex clients connect to the same shared object. As a client changes the state of the object by updating a property, the change is automatically sent to all connected clients.
* The example uses the following SharedObject APIs:
o SharedObject.getRemote
o SharedObject.addEventListener
o SharedObject.setProperty

the site:
http://www.themidnightcoders.com/weborb/dotnet/

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

These Magical Mirrors bring back the child in you. You can find them in Germany and as you pass by them they respond to your movements. They also respond to the traffic that passes by. This turns the shopping area into a playground at nighttime. Just like this and this. The clip is in German but don’t let that stop you from watching it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eWXnjghEpo

With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Some are beautiful to look at and interact with. Others are a testament to usability and functionality. And a handful excel across the board. To be selected among the best is an incredible achievement worthy of praise -- and perhaps a little bragging.

http://webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=12

Mission
Shutdown Day is a non-profit organization registered in the province of Quebec, Canada. Shutdown Day was founded with the sole purpose of spreading awareness about the pitfalls and dangers that lie in the excessive use of television, computers, and computing equipment like game boxes, cell phones, music players, online social websites, etc. that impinge on social space and interaction amongst our communities.

Shutdown Day also aims to partner with other like-minded organizations in promoting sustainable development, especially in the area of social behavior relating to the effects modern technology.

http://www.shutdownday.org/

We’re glad to announce that we’re already working hard to make Alternativa3D availiable ’till the end of May. We’re planning to open SWC-library for non-commercial use, and also preparing licenses for commercial use in any projects. We’re also creating developers portal, useful support system and on-line documentation.

http://blog.alternativaplatform.com/en/