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dynamo london regular contributor, Ross Phillips, has a great new installation in the Super Contemporary exhibition that has just opened at the Design Museum. For this interactive installation, four pods around London take short videos of the heads, bodies or legs of the people standing in front.... read more

tags: action, art, creativity, entertainment, Gallery, head, installation, interact, interaction, interactive, london, performance, personal, toe, video

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Beautifully executed typographic navigation allows the user to move smoothly across the British Heart Foundation's recently launched Annual Review. A click here is good for your health. read more

tags: charity, heart, navigation, Sennep, typographic

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This post is somewhat late, I know, as the UK edition of Wired magazine is already into its second issue. So, I bought this first issue, remembering the relatively short-lived attempt to launch a dedicated UK edition a decade or so ago, and wondered how this version might be better than that a... read more

tags: cultural, Davies, information, magazine, media, news, print, publishing, Russell, trends

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When a free web service called WolframAlpha launches in the coming days, the general public will get to try a "computational knowledge engine" that has had technology insiders buzzing because of its oracle-like ability to spit out answers and make calculations. Which has a bigger gross domesti... read more

tags: search

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This technology basically works like a massive iPhone screen. I look forward to a time, hopefully in the near future, when I can do my work on a big screen like this. Imagine using Illustrator or Photoshop at these dimensions! Jeff Han is the scientist who has developed this inexpensive way t... read more

tags: computer, Han, interactive, interface, iPhone, perceptive, pixel, screen, touch

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Latest version of the web trend map. It makes for interesting viewing. You'll have to follow the link to see it in detail. But if you're very very quick you still have chance to offer your comments before it's published. read more

tags: cultural, earth, entertainment, fun, global, google, illustration, image, information, Internet, Map, mapping, network, trends, update, virtual, web, world

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WikipediaVision is an (almost) real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits and what part of the world they come from. It's kind of useless, but compelling viewing for all that. read more

tags: earth, global, information, interface, Internet, locations, tracking, update, wiki, world

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PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard, and the postcards are then published on the web. Anyone can contribute, and the secrets range from admissions of sexual misconduct to confessions of criminal activity. ... read more

tags: american, art, blog, community, Confession, Mail, Postcard, Secret

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PolarClock is a self-initiated project developed by interactive designer, Gabriel Bucknall. PolarClock can be a screen saver, a Mac Dashboard widget or an iPhone app and it is available for Mac and Windows. The PolarClock uses concentric arcs, to represent the passing of months, dates, days, ... read more

tags: Clock, digit, fun, Polarclock, screensaver, Time, widget

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