Technology

September 21, 2013

Interactive Installation Invites Visitors to Manipulate Clouds

Cloud Pink is an interactive installation by Seoul-based creative Everyware (formed by Hyunwoo Bang and Yunsil Heo) that allows the public to live out their childhood dreams of touching and manipulating clouds. The immersive piece features a fabric screen that invites visitors to poke and prod the material from below, thereby causing a visual reaction in the projected simulation of wafting pink clouds.

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November 17, 2012

Mesmerizing Metallic Flower Sculpture Open & Closes

Una Lumino is a kinetic sculpture comprised of metallic buds that are made of acrylic and stainless steel. The mechanical installation by Korean artist Choe U-Ram incorporates his signature style of combining beauty and technology. Standing at just over 17 feet tall, the whirlwind of elegant robotic flowers are automated to bloom open, shining a brilliant light, and revert back to their closed state.

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October 17, 2012

SnapBox Turns Smartphone Photos into Framed Canvases

If you're like me, you've taken hundreds (if not thousands) of photos on your iPhone (or other smartphone) and, one day, when you find some time, you vow to print them out and put them in a nice frame. That was 2010. Now it's been a few years and you still haven't gotten around to it. (What can we say? We're busy people!) Enter SnapBox!

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