The Isle of Tune is the brian child of Jim Hall, an Interactive Art Director based in London.  The site lets you create your own music by mapping out roads, then placing road side objects which trigger sounds as cars drive by.

In the age of DJ Hero, it is good to see something that allows people to create rather than imitate.  Nice job Jim.

Check it out for yourself at http://isleoftune.com/ or follow them in the twittersphere - @isleoftune

 

When I first saw Minority Report, I was wowed by the space-aged interface that a certain glove wearing Tom Cruise was interacting with. Yesterday, TED published a talk by John Underkoffler which was filmed earlier this year.  John was a consultant on the film, and has now actually built the interface.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="333" caption="Pick your own path"] [/caption] Remember those adventure books you used to read when you where a kid? You know, the ones that let you control your destiny. Do you climb the tower to save the Princess, or stand your ground and fight the dragon? Well Jonah Peretti (@peretti) has taken this paradigm to Twitter. The only question is.  Will you take the adventure?

N Building from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo.

"This building in Tachiwaka, Japan, is a standalone user experience. Snap a photo of the exterior on your cellphone and be directed to its website; stream live tweets from inside; point a camera towards it and bring up an augmented reality layer displaying information on the stores inside and the sales they're having." - from Idealog

As good as the iPhone is, there are still a few features missing.  One being the ability to multi-task between the plethora of apps you have installed. This video by Ocean Observation shows how they would tackle the multitasking problem, and while their solution occupies too much home screen real estate for my liking (it could hide away and only appear when user taps the home key twice),  it is definitely a feature I would use. Wonder if the folk at Apple are pondering such things?

Brand Republic today reported that TravelTainment have created a travel mash-up for MS Surface. The application plots photos of resorts on a Google map, and TravelTainment are hoping that the this interactive brochure will help transform the way holiday makers approach booking holidays. Although it's not clear from the video, it would be good if features such as retrieving user reviews from sites like tripadvisor, or location specifc information from wikitravel were also included. Interesting that the mapping technology of choice is Google maps, and not Microsoft's Bing Maps.

Nearness from timo on Vimeo.

Vid came in through the twitter-sphere courtesy of @odannyboy Entitled ‘Nearness’ the guys at touch hooked up with BERG made a short film that explores nearness in interactive technologies