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Project Milestone by the Eindhoven University of Technology, the city municipality of Eindhoven, Van Wijnen, Vesteda, Saint Gobain-Weber Beamix and Witteveen+Bos is the world's first commercial housing project based on 3D-concrete printing. The design of the houses is based on erratic blocks in a green landscape.

Project Soli by Google ATAP is developing a new interaction sensor using radar technology. It can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy and can be built into small devices and everyday objects. Led by the ever brilliant Ivan Poupyrev, with design and visualisations work by Ottica Media.

Asinas by Jennifer Townley is a mechanical sculpture that is currently part of the exhibition KEEP MOVING at Galerie Franzis Engels. I attended the opening and enjoyed the amazing kinetic artworks by Leon van Opstal, Wicher Meursing, Willem van Weeghel and this mesmerizing sculpture by Jennifer Townley. 

The Augmented Hand Series by Golan Levin, Chris Sugrue and Kyle McDonald, is a real-time interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors' hands. The project was developed at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry through a commission from Cinekid Festival.

Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures by John Edmark are 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light (for this video, rather than using a strobe, the camera was set to a very short shutter speed in order to freeze the spinning sculpture). The number of spirals on any of these sculptures are always Fibonacci numbers.

T8 by Robugtix is a bio-inspired high resolution 3D printed robot spider that uses a total of 26 servo motors. It is powered by the Bigfoot Inverse Kinematics Engine and you can choose between pre-programming your own sequences or directly controlling the robot with a wireless controller. Youtube video!

inFORM by the Tangible Media Group (Hiroshi Ishii is still rocking it!) at MIT Media Lab is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way. inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it, for example moving objects on the table’s surface.

Box by Bot & Dolly is a short film documenting a live performance, captured entirely in camera. It explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping on moving surfaces using multiple technologies, including three kuka industrial robots, projection mapping, and software engineering.

Knock Knock by Khalil Klouche is a playful calculator designed for small children. Knock out a calculation on the wood surface and it will knock back with the answer. Simple, clever and fun! Installation: original wooden box, Arduino board, contact microphones, solenoids.

KIHOU by Tangent is an indirect lighting utilising two kinds of liquid and air bubbles. Sticky liquid is filled in the ceramics bowl and a thin layer of black silicone oil is floated on top of it. A small pump and LEDs are embedded in the bottom of the bowl which makes the luminous bubbles appearing from the black liquid surface.

Do Not Touch by studio Moniker (Roel Wouters, Luna Maurer & Jonathan Puckey) is a crowd-sourced music video for the band Light Light celebrating the "nearing end of the humble computer cursor". Also check out previous works like oneframeoffame.com and nowtakeabow.com and Moniker's research on Conditional Design (read the manifesto).

Greenhouse by Oblong is a creative coding toolkit for spatial interfaces. It enables rapid prototyping of: multi-screen, multi-user, multi-device interfaces leveraging gestural and spatial interaction. Greenhouse is based on Oblong's g-speak platform and it's free for non-commercial and limited-scale use.

21 Balançoires by Daily Tous Les Jours is a giant collective instrument that playfully brings together people of all ages and backgrounds. When in motion, each of the 21 swings in the series triggers different notes and, when used all together, the swings compose a musical piece in which certain melodies emerge only through cooperation.

No to NoUI by Timo Arnall is an essay-like blogpost that takes issue with some of the notions of a cluster of thinking he calls 'invisible design'. The article is nicely packed with links and references to related material also very much worthy of reading.

Code.org is a non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programming education. It has just released a short film with some of the biggest names in the field (like Bill, Mark and Gabe), who talk about the importance of coding. The site has some great learning resources for anyone who wants to get into programming.

Watch Dogs by Ubisoft Montreal is an upcoming open world action-adventure video game. The main gameplay mechanic is the use of hacking and surveillance, using any device tied to the city's central operating system (ctOS) as a weapon against it. Check the gameplay video and dataviz trailer.