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Rediscovering Yugop
Yugo Nakamura (click for an interview in Japanese) If you’ve never seen the work of Yugo Nakamura, known online as Yugop, go immediately to his website www.yugop.com and take a look around. And if you...
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Toshio Iwai
Piano - As Media Image (1995) In 1996 I saw the Mediascape exhibition at the Guggenheim SoHo. A collection of digital art, some interactive, it was bold show from a major museum. It received mixed...
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Japanese Advertising Candy
Love Distance Once, back in the pre-web days, when I was in Japan, I spent a lot of my time grabbing as many interactive CD-ROMs as I could get my hands on. They were filled with strange and fun...
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Uniqlo Lucky Switch
Uniqlo’s interactive stuff is always cool, and this little toy is no exception. The “Lucky Switch” widget was part of a 2009 end-of-year clearance campaign. The widget could be embedded into blogs and...
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Two Tabletops
Augmented Shadow The tangibility of tabletop/object interfaces can make them much more approachable and informal than screen-based applications. That, plus you’re focused on the experience — not...
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iPhone + Book = PhoneBook
Take a look at this cute project from the Japanese firm Mobile Art. From what I can get out of Google Translate, it’s what they call a “PhoneBook” and it’s titled “POPO and MOMO Ride! Ride!” (You can...
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Gadget: Invention, Travel and Adventure
When the iPad was released last year, there were several titles that had strong echos of earlier days of interactive CD-ROMs. Relaxing on a sofa and exploring a new world was much more enjoyable than...
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