The BEST Interactive Image Interfaces on the Web

To create this list we have been looking at dozens of data visualization, image mapping and picture mosaic solutions plus piles of descriptions. To make the list most useful we came up with the following criteria for the tools:

Should be online and actively maintained by the site owner
Should be interactive
Should use photos / images [...]

Seen in London

Photo by Ben Patiovia Abroath

Advertising: SMS Guerrilla Projector

If you recently seen strange messages been projected onto people’s backs during a concert or on the streets of London these have potentially been done with the SMS Guerrilla Projector by Troikart.
Troika Communications a sister company of Troikart has recently been hired by Warner Music to project messages written by one of the band members [...]

Games: Dynamic Flow experiences

Two often overlooked but beautiful games are the Cloud game and flOw. Both are great examples of flow in games or visualizations. Watch the introduction video of Cloud online or play flOw just to let you calm down by the music.
Jenova Chen who worked on the creation of these games has some background information on [...]

Flickr: Cardboard paintings

We just came across a really great Flickr photo stream with cardboard paintings. Never thought you could use these old boxes for something. Now we know.Have a look at Flickr user señor_b’s photos and his outstanding cardboard stuff stream.

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Video: FedEx Ant Hill

In a presentation FedEx CIO referred to a video that shows the airplane network of FedEx planes flying in and out of Memphis during a 24 hour period. The video is on YouTube now. Nice animation and very relaxing to watch.

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China: How to advertise for health

It does not pay stealing copyrighted material from others. That’s a lesson some Chinese officials just learned the hard way.
When the Ministry of Health of a Chinese city decided to make a poster to welcome visitors from around the world to its health summit, they came up with the poster show on the right (top [...]

Gadgets: Einstein Hollow Face Illusion

UK shop Grand Illusions that provides all sorts of illusion gadgets has an object called “The Einstein Hollow Face Illusion.”
This is one of the most amazing optical illusions we have seen. Watch the video on their web site to see it how it works. The image follows you as you move around the room.

Humor: Want Faster Data Transfer?

John Walkenbach has done it again and created some more quite funny web site parodies at j-walkblog. The ones we still like most is the Bill Gates Inbox and the WiFI spray ad (see image below). Most of the parodies are interactive (like the California experience) or are small web sites.
Note: John Walkenbach’s daily blog [...]

Computers: First things first

After all the ranting and raving today we thought it might be good to have someone else describe the most “pressing” technical issues. So here is what David Letterman has to say about computers in general, the blogosphere (sorry Dave Sifry) and some issues companies like Sony, Dell and others had to go through [...]