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Lynx Excite Angel Ambush London Victoria

By Tom Saunter on March 18, 2011 // Sideblog

An actually quite good use of AR (for once) - Lynx Excite Angel Ambush London Victoria

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Prism London

By Tom Saunter on November 11, 2010 // Sideblog

Just look at this awesome range of designer glasses - PRISM London

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New London Bus Design Unveiled

By Tom Saunter on May 18, 2010 // Sideblog

New London Bus Design Unveiled – would you be seen dead in one of these?

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Audi in Trafalgar Square

By Tom Saunter on May 17, 2010 // Sideblog

KRAM WEISSHAAR LDF AUDI TRAFALGARSQUARE 09 | Audi in Trafalgar Square | Digital Cortex

The London Design Festival has commissioned Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram to design this year’s Trafalgar Square installation. The installation titled OUTRACE consists of an immense mechanical octopus assembled from six industrial robotic arms on loan from Audi’s production line. Custom software developed by the designers will allow members of the public to temporarily take over the installation and render text input as light traces drawn by the synchronized mechanical tentacles. The resulting light paintings will be recorded using specialized high definition video equipment and published online.

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MIT Propose A Digital Cloud for London

By Tom Saunter on November 12, 2009 // design

London invited the world to build them an addition to their skyline, in time for the Olympics in 2012. Their request has been answered by researchers from MIT. Here are some details of their brave response:

The structure, dubbed “the Cloud”, would consist of two 400-foot towers and a number of interconnected, LED-filled bubbles, including an observation deck and a series of digital displays relaying statistical information from the Olympics.

A clean-powered entity, solar panels would provide much of the power needed. It is proposed that other running costs would be covered by its visitors – invited to ‘sponsor’ an LED.

A quote from their website offers some insight into their mission statement:

The Cloud addresses our twin attention spans of the short-term desire for information and stimulation, and our growing longer-term consciousness about our impact on the future, and our productive role within a larger harmonious ecology. It provides two resources – energy and data – harvesting both the natural ecosystem and humanity’s complementary cyber-sphere, fusing the two.

Further technical details below, for those interested:

TheCLOUD Project  

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