This interactive art looks like sand/water falling from the top. What is really interesting about this is that when you stand in front of the screen you can make “shadow puppets” or any type of movement and the screen will pick that up and have the sand fall around you.

Designed and created by David Henderson this robot can interact with people around it. Zeno can pick up conversation with someone and develop relationships. Hanson Robotics’s vision is to have an interactive friend that can convey human emotion and hold a conversation, Zeno does just that. Its as if a young boy’s brain is inside…

The robe ot Jules is a robotic head that can have actual conversations with humans. This robot can also show lots of human emotions. The thing that is real about Jules, is that he himself knows that he’s not real and hopes that one day he will become human. He is also aware of how…

Knowmad was a collaborative effort of Mel Chin, graphic designers, and gaming engineers to create an experience that would utilize antique tribal rugs from the Middle East in combination with a video game to create “…flexible space, conceptually and personally “(Chin). In a tent with unique woven nomadic designs surrounding the console, this game allows…

Click Title for Video! John Slepian‘s Little One fits right in with David Rokeby’s Transforming Mirrors article. Little One is an interactive piece that essentially acts like a baby. Little One senses the presence of others and cries to be held. If Little One is shaken or tipped too much, it throws a tantrum. Little…

In San Jose city, the public interactive projection is designed by Camille Utterback. It was designed in 2007. In the night the people can easily interact with the plaza by seeing their shadow in the projection. The camera in the plaza grab the movement of people.

This project is a little bit scary and peculiar. People randomly walk through the place where it has installed the “Access” and some of them suddenly become the “targets.” Some people may not be comfortable with this sticky spotlight, but some do enjoy it a lot with the vocal beam program. People can control the…

Super Uber, A Brazilian Interactive Media Company, is an exciting venture which aims to merge art, design and technology. With exhibitions at major shows across south america, the U.S. and Europe. Super Uber has created a wall where people can interact with their own shadows. The visitor’s silhouettes and movements reveal the hidden image, the result…

This piece by Daniel Rozin has 650 angle-cut pegs mounted on motors around a small camera in the middle. As the camera detects an object, the pegs rotate to reflect light and create shadows to form the image of the object in front of it. Rozin created software that breaks up the image in the…

Protrude, flow by Sachiko Kodama + Minako Takeno made in 2001 is a physical material that makes it easy for humans to create surreal illusions in pictures. Protrude, Flow is an interactive installation which expresses the dynamics of fluid motion of physical material, the dynamics of organic,wild shapes and movements of liquid by a computer…

This is a great link about 3D projection. The kind that we’ve seen in science fiction movies but perhaps didn’t think possible. It just goes to show you that the things we think are nearly impossible futuristic concepts from the Jetsons are not always far off. Furthermore, as an industrial designer, I am reminded that…

Douglas Irving Repetto’s Giant Painting Machine (Milano) is pretty much just that. Created with found objects and simple machines and motors, it is essentially a mechanical artist. It operates independently from the inside of a temporary four-walled room with walls of mylar, so the paintings can be viewed from the outside while they are being…