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Chris Woebken is an interaction designer based in London. His portfolio has all sorts of wonderful experiments in this field but my favourite is his 2005 project ‘FlicFlex’ (which kinda reminds me of Flat Futures).

Barcode Plantage is an interesting look at ordinary, everyday barcodes. Simply run your barcode through the application on their website and you will be presented with a great visualisation, showing where your product originated, the manufacturer and other tid bits of information.

Damn! Nicolas Loeillot has uploaded this amazing video of a holographic representation of google earth. Wouldn’t it be aweseome if the heights of mountains, city skyscrapers etc. were rendered on top of it too!

Italian artist Carlo Bernardini creates some amazing light sculptures.

The Barbarian Group, fronted by Robert Hodgin (of Flight404) have some brilliant interactive work.

German artist Carsten Nicolai has some great artworks and installation pieces. Many of the works seem generative, creating beauty from chaos.

VaryWell write software, build hardware and generally create brilliant interactive apps and interfaces.

I stumbled upon Read at Work the other day and was really impressed by the whole deviousness of the scheme! The basic premise allows you to read classic novels whilst posing as doing that important powerpoint presentation that was due yesterday. The interface is really nifty (at emulating windows) and the whole thing kind of reminds me of the boss key that was prevalent in early video games.

Flight404 is the blog of processing master Robert Hodgin. The projects featured here are mind blowing. If you’re into glowing things and particle effects you should definitely check this out. Also of interest is Robert’s vimeo page which can be found here.

There’s some great work going on over at Dvein. As well as having a pretty damn slick website, I’m really diggin’ the Diesel Liquid Space Show visuals.