Chris Woebken
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’.
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Barcode Plantage
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.
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Holographic Google Earth
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!
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Barbarian Group
The Barbarian Group, fronted by Robert Hodgin (of Flight404) have some brilliant interactive work.
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Carsten Nicolai
German artist Carsten Nicolai has some great artworks and installation pieces. Many of the works seem generative, creating beauty from chaos.
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Read at Work
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.
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