We’ve been playing with data retrieval for dynamic visualizations and passioned about local weather data, so we decided to explore the weatherbug API to retrieve local weather data and to make it even simpler we made a drop-dead easy openframeworks

Beats Space 3D is a gestural and spatial drumkit using the Leap and 3D stereoscopic visuals. Players can create their own drum pads by drawing basic geometries with their fingers, each recognized shape represents a different sound and visual element,

some years ago Oblong amazed the whole world with their Minority Report style interactions – actually Oblong’s founder John Underkoffler consulted for the movie interaction and digital technology (have you seen his talk at TED Conference?). NOt much further in

This past September Intel’s perceptual computing group announced the beta version of its SDK together with Interactive Gesture Camera, a small sized depth sensing camera produced by Creative Labs not much bigger than a webcam and focused on close range

Like any responsible geeks, we have been watching the streams for new stuff from CES, and we haven’t been disappointed. Here are just a few things that got us excited for great new tech in 2013:   Brookstone and Lilliputian to introduce

here’s a quick demo of some of our adventures with DMX lighting and Interaction. DMX is a communication protocol used for most of the shows and we got a hold of it together with some led par fixtures and moving

Ad Forum 2012 Havas Worldwide AdForum Event in New York. MadSci Labs developed a set of interactive games for the AdForum event, exploring technologies such as Kinect, Multitouch, object recognition, RFID and projection Mapping. The referees were also able to

Download the code or see the schematic For a recent lab project, we needed to be able to read NFC tags from 12 readers at once. Strong Link makes affordable NFC readers that use I2C communication. The model we use is the SL018 which Marc

For this year’s Vimeo Festival, MadSci partnered with NYU Vimeo Fellows and some of Vimeo’s developers to create a “Smart Pass” system. The system uses NFC technology that the lab is constantly innovating. With your pass Vimeo Smart Pass you