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daylighting and signage in contemporary architectural surfaces, Pixel Skin is a multi-layered
electrographic surface which allows the integration of illumination and view controls with realtime
communications media.
www.orangevoid.org.uk
Plastic Logic
Plastic Logic is developing licensable manufacturing solutions for printing thin and flexible activematrix
displays. When combined with an electronic-paper imaging film, Plastic Logic’s backplane
technology enables highly portable, readable and power efficient displays. The initial application
focus is e-readers (e.g. e-books, e-dictionaries, e-maps, e-newspapers). These displays will
often be wirelessly connected to WAN devices such mobile phones and PDAs, allowing users to
access content ‘on-the-move’ more comfortably and efficiently than is possible using a small
integrated display. This is the first step towards flexible and plastic backplanes for a range
of display applications and frontplane technologies including LCD and OLED. Features include
resolution up to 150ppi (pixels per inch); scaleable area to A4 (210mm by 297mm) and above;
4 levels of grayscale; high aperture ratio / fill factor; and bistable e-paper which enables high
contrast reflective display (sun-light readable) and ultra-low power consumption.
www.plasticlogic.com
Printed Food
Printed Food is an edible material that provides a way to convey the nutritious elements of
food to consumers in an extremely compact, visually appealing, and information-rich manner.
Developed by Chef Homaro Cantu, Printed Food has a number of possible applications, including
the delivery of nutritional supplements and ingestible pharmaceuticals, as well as for promotional
and advertising uses. The manufacturing process of Printed Food allows for the incorporation of
text and images, such as the food ingredients, directly on digestible food. Instructions for usage,
references, and storage information may also be included. Chef Cantu even “serves” a dinner
menu as Printed Food. Printed Food’s stability, compact nature, and innovative communication
capability make it an ideal food source for people in extreme environments, such as outer space
or countries with severely limited resources.
www.cantudesigns.com
Sensitive Floor
We’re accustomed to seeing interactive digital media projected on walls, and sometimes ceilings,
but what about floors? Developed by iO, Sensitive Floor is an interactive video projection designed
specifically for walking surfaces. Conventional touch-screen panels and kiosks don’t actually entice
much interaction, but a floor projection placed in a well-trafficked area is nearly unavoidable.
The Sensitive Floor system utilizes a ceiling mounted projector which displays a variety of preprogrammed
visual effects when a moving presence is detected within the field of projection.
Installations may be temporary or permanent, and applications include retail, entertainment, and
exhibition environments, or anywhere that interactive art, information, or advertising may be
featured. According to iO, “We devised Sensitive Floor to be the first interactive media that makes
you smile.”
www.sensitivefloor.com
Smart Slab
The SmartSlab has been described as the world’s toughest digital video display for walls, floors,
billboards and buildings. Each slab is designed in a honeycomb structure inspired by the optics of
a fly’s eye. Instead of using standard pixels it uses hexels (hexagonal pixels) that provide an 18%
better resolution than just the standard pixel. The SmartSlab display is suitable for any position in
any environment; it is capable of holding a ton of weight; it is water, fire and vandalism resistant
and doesn’t power down an entire energy grid when powered up. The SmartSlab is bright too: the
standard luminance is 1,000 Cd/m2 and a high brightness model is available at 5,000 Cd/m2.
Moreover, the SmartSlab can also be used as a speaker, providing a 3D immersive “heightened
reality” sound system.
www.smartslab.co.uk
Super Cilia Skin
Super Cilia Skin is a tactile and visual system inspired by the beauty of grass blowing in the wind.
It consists of an array of computer-controlled actuators (cilia) that are anchored to an elastic
membrane. These actuators represent information by changing their physical orientation. The
current prototype of Super Cilia Skin developed by MIT’s Tangible Interfaces functions as an
output device capable of visual and tactile expression. Most existing computational tools rely on