digital lifestyle
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
today I was invited to the “Digital Lifestyle Show“,
an event that pretends:
- To provide a platform for pilot projects to showcase their creative concepts and commercial values
- To establish cooperative relationship with leading companies in Digital Lifestyle products to enable long-term partnerships in the future endeavors of Digital Lifestyle development
- To enhance cohesion and engagement of the core industry alliances and experts through a common vision, transfer of new technological concepts, and inspirations for inter-company collaboration
- To raise public awareness about the value and competitive edges of Hong Kong to become the key driver for Digital Lifestyle development in Asia
Themed “Enjoying our Lives with Technology”, the exhibition is staging about 20 award-winning and state-of-arts projects from PolyU, Hong Kong Baptist University and leading companies in Digital Lifestyle development. The Show enables visitors to experience futuristic digital lifestyle at a mock-up residential setting furnished with interesting innovations and technologies. It is hoped that the exhibition will inspire new products and innovative concepts, enable efficiency of our lives, and, most importantly stimulate futuristic thinking for blending the best of technology with the best of life.”
Basically consisted in a fancy and pretentious house (Bel-Air N8) stuffed with digital media projects from School of Design and commercial products from the event sponsors.
Two things that called my attention are:
1) “The Interactive Dome
A cool semi sphere that acts as a dome-shaped projection surface with multi-touch capabilities.
done by Dr.Clifford Choy form the School of Design, PolyU HK.
In this exhibit, they turn the Interactive Dome into an interactive globe for visualizing geographical information. The Earth is projected onto this dome-shaped surface. Users can turn the globe with their hands, and can zoom into a specific portion of the globe.
yeah! very fun to use, but a bit flickering… needs a bit more work, but the concept is really interesting.
like this project? check this other one from a Carnegie Mellon team that back in 2004 made an inflatable 360 dome that functioned like a mini-planetarium for gaming fun…
2) “Fallen Angels”
A project done by Hung Kueng and imhk lab
it consists in an installation with a screen and a webcam that runs a software that simulates dropping objects falling on a moving body.
I could explain the details, but better take a look at this video
