I wanted to play with Firefox’s ability to read accelerometer input and I just loved the idea by Just Be Nice Studio to only use HTML and browser elements to build a brick breaker game. And that’s how Browser Breakout was born.

For more information and a playable demo please visit the project page.

Brilliant idea by Vitamins Design Consultants for an instruction manual, in particular for people having difficulties learnings to use their new handset.

[via Unplggd]

Lucia is a programable LED Matrix for generative realtime animations that can be affected by presence, light and sounds.
The project is created by Tangible Interaction and programmed by Matthias Dörfelt (Moka) using openFrameworks.
I want one!

You might have seen Berlin based artist Niklas Roy’s work Pongmechanik before, an electro mechanical version of the video game pong. Last sunday his exhibition called Maschinen (machines) at Kunstraum Walcheturm in Zürich, Switzerland ended and if you, like myself, weren’t able to go, he prepared an interactive walkthrough of it. And his work is absolutely worth seeing.

Auto Smiley is an application by Theo Watson that runs in the background and analyzes your facial expressions in real-time. If it detects a smile on your face it pastes an ascii smiley face into the application you are currently using.
:)

“The Twitwee Clock is a modified Cuckoo Clock that wirelessly connects to the internet and constantly checks for new status updates or search results from Twitter. New Tweets are displayed on the built-in display in near-realtime accompanied by the charming yet obtrusive call of a mechanical cuckoo poping out of the clock.”
Please see the project page for more information.

There’s arguably no other company that releases outstanding web projects in such regular intervals as Uniqlo is doing. Here’s a list of all projects since 2006. The current online campaign for UJ can be found here.

TYPEFACE is a custom software built in processing by Mary Huang that translates facial dimensions into generative type design.

I’ve been playing around with the Google Search API lately. Thereby I came up with this little Javascript experiment. Please be patient as it may take some time to load. It does not work in Internet Explorer.

Frost by Ole Kristensen, a reactive projection scenography for a Dansk Danseteater / Danish Dance Theatre dance performance. Developed with choreographer Tina Tarpgaard and programmer Jonas Jongejan using Openframeworks.
[via creativeapplications.net]