Idea

Pitching the concept to class groups went over well. Goodwin suggested actually making the product as a user-interface surface. Yeah. Immediately words rushed through my head including scale and cost and time and quality. I am in no way a programmer. A unit of Processing & Arduino does not make one even closely adequate. I could always try it. Besides wasted time and pulled-put-hair what really would I loose? 

researching researching researching. 

Spanish design agency "Think Big Factory" have developed and interactive "Ipad House" using technology existing today. The 'Openarch' system utilises projectors and sensors that turn normal everyday surfaces (ie walls/floors) into interactive planes. Watch it.




To be honest I was mostly excited for Tetris on the floor. Is it too much though? I mean really I though I was on my laptop far too much. If this becomes a reality, optometrists will make a bundle (or more so than they do already) and Panadol sales will sky rocket. Though the opposite may happen, where being submerged within media filled homes will overwhelm our senses and we revert back to the norm.

Austrian design agency Strukt Design Studio was commissioned to design a digital wall that used video projectors. The vid below shows how the 'digital wallpaper' was created and its possible uses. While not interactive, its still a pretty cool way to have different patterned interiors.