When we're not crawling around inside giant touch-tables or augmenting reality, Click Suite has one eye on the web and its never-ending flow of fascinating ideas and innovations. Here are some gems I found over the previous year...
LET'S GET PHYSICAL
I'm intrigued as to how digital interactives can complement physical. For all the educational potential of tablets and low-cost laptops, there's still a strong case for giving youngsters actual, physical stuff to play with. Here's an interesting example of this sort of thing in action.
STORY SOLD
Second Story (a Portland company with similarities to Click Suite) have been bought by SapientNitro. They say "Because of the seismic shift in consumer behavior, digitizing the physical space is the newest frontier for brand storytelling and … [connecting] companies and consumers in innovative ways."
IT'S MOVING
On A Huge Video Wall, A Stunning Kinetic Sculpture Comes To Life.
iPADDAGE PATCH
A touchtable made of iPads.
> Huh?
GORGEOUS
The Rijksmuseum website was mentioned at the National Digital Forum as the new aspirational website for the museums sector.
MEMOTO
A Wearable Camera That Gives You a Photographic Memory. If only it could remember names… (my great weakness).
> Snap!
THE 6 DIMENSIONS OF EXPERIENCE
A visitor experience model from Nathan Shedroff which is relevant to the sort of work Click Suite is doing in the GLAMs space. He says that there are six dimensions of every experience, whether these are natural or man-made and whether these are business-oriented to not.
CUBA CUTS
An interactive documentary on the Cuban missile crisis.
> Explore
FONTS FOR LIFE
New data indicates that the font on your display could save your life. As screens become more and more common in cars, some choices may have more implications that aesthetics.
DRUNK MIRROR
In a bit of clever marketing from Allianz Insurance, digital mirrors were placed in a bar, delivering recorded reflections on a two second delay; an accurate simulation of the reaction time-altering effects of alcohol.
> Hic!
DOH!
Want to use Play-Doh as a game controller? Want to use a trampoline as a keyboard? MaKey lets you do just that.
A NEW ERA IN WARBDROBE MALFUNCTIONS
A fascinating in-depth article on Wearable Computing.
> Zip
IT'S BIG
An interactive infographic that accurately illustrates the scale of more than 100 items from the observable universe, from galaxies to insects.