Exhibition

Blow Your Mind
The NEXT exhibition is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see, feel and try out some of the most exceptional and mind boggling new tech demos, early products and prototypes while you get the inside from the makers themselves. Dreams are the stuff that this is made of.
Exhibitors at NEXT no.5

Sound Candy | Shuichi Ishibashi

Sound Candy is a device with which anyone in the world can create his/her own playground anywhere of using sound and movements around him/her.
 

Arbour Light | Kitchen Budapest
Light Arbour is an intelligent lighting system which reproduces phenomena of nature to light. While it is a design object in our living space, it provides an alternative communication facility (instead of hypertext) between places and people, reminds for phenomena and presence as well. It consists of two parts. The one is an optional phenomenon recorded as a video, the other is a display from lighting modules. It could be used in real time or like representation of videos which have already existed.
 

 
 
Brain-Computer Interface | Retrogradist

A Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) provides a new communication channel between the human brain and the computer. Mental activity leads to changes of electrophysiological signals like the Electroencephalogram (EEG) or Electrocorticogram (ECoG). The BCI system detects such changes and transforms it into a control signal which can, for example, be used as spelling device or to control a cursor on the computer monitor.
  

Wall of Pong | Adrian Wong & Bhavin Rokad
Wall of Pong is a fast-moving, interactive, laser-based pong game playable on any flat surface.

The system uses a digitally controlled laser projection platform to draw a pong ball onto any flat surface. This allows for a large playing area that can be set up almost anywhere. Hand held paddles with embedded sensors are given to each player. The real life paddles increases the interactivity of the game and makes it an enjoyable and dynamic derivative of the original PONG arcade game.
 

 Verbarius | Art Lebedev
Verbarius is the first clock in the world that tells time the way people do. It has five preloaded languages: English, German, Spanish, French and Russian. Using the USB port on the back of the clock for connecting to a PC you can easily upload any additional language you like. The clock spells out time differently every minute. It’s either forty-five minutes past four, or fifteen minutes to five, or four forty-five, or a quarter to five.

 
 
Take a Seat | Jelte van Geest
Robots are often seen as mean machines or artificial humans made of steel. However, they do have a more friendly side, which should have a more prominent place in our society. For this reason, Jelte van Geest designed these small, moveable poufs. As soon as library passes are equipped with an RFID chip (Radio Frequency IDentification), the seats will be able to track down their users.
 

 
 
Tangible Workbench | Thomas Kienzl - Kommerz
Changeable markers afford completely new possibilities of interaction on a tangible user interface. The heart of the solution are changeable markers, which enable new, complex possibilities of interaction design, which upgrades a TUI from a classic presentation tool to a work tool.
 

 
  
The Dynamically Transparent Window | CAVI
A Dynamically Transparent Window responds to the movements of people passing by. By using thin strips of the foil, narrow bands on the facade change in order to reveal what is on display in the store when people walk by the window. The facade uses various interaction modes in order to lure the by-passers near and make them explore the display.

The Soundgrabber | Medialogy Copenhagen

The meaning by the Soundgrabber is to investigate the possibility of making sound tangible by means of an intangible user interface.
 

 
Edgebomber | Edgebomber

Edgebomber breaks up the classic “ready-made”-gameconcepts. With support of special duct tapes, the player create their own levels and sketches to solve this game.
 

 
Shiftspace | Dan Phiffer
 

ShiftSpace is an open source layer above any website. It seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web. ShiftSpace provides tools for artists, designers, architects, activists, developers, students, researchers, and hobbyists to create online contexts built in and on top of websites.
 

 
Sonicum | Art Lebedev
 

Sonicum is a 3-piece speaker subwoofer set. The speakers are flat panels with NXT technology designed to look like sound icons. It can be connected to the line-in port of any audio source such as a CD player, a computer or a synthesizer.
 

 
Home moonlight | Kitchen Budapest
The night-light system “Home Moonlight” starts to operate when it detects motion in the room, and makes just little light, enough to sense the space, furniture, and things around in the room. The pleasant light covers the whole flat, following the direction of movement, and slowly fades out when movement ceases in the space.
 

 
iBar | Mindstorm

iBar is a system for the interactive design of any bar-counter. Integrated video-projectors can project any content on the milky bar-surface. The intelligent tracking system of iBar detects all objects touching the surface. This input is used to let the projected content interact dynamically with the movements on the counter. Objects can be illuminated at their position or virtual objects can be "touched" with the fingers.

  
Keepon | Beatbots

Keepon is a small creature-like robot designed to interact with children by directing attention and expressing emotion. Keepon's minimal design makes its behaviors easy to understand, resulting in interactions that are enjoyable and comfortable - particularly important in our research on human social development.

 
Internet Umbrella | Pileus

Pileus is an umbrella connected to the Internet to make walking in rainy days fun. Pileus has a large screen on the top surface, a built-in camera, a motion sensor, GPS, and a digital compass, and it provides two main functions; A Social Photo-sharing and A 3D Map Navigation.

 
Optimus Maximus | Art Lebedev
 
Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it. Optimus’s customizable layout allows convenient use of any language - Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana, etc. - as well as of any other character set: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity.

Wobble Active | Medialogy Copenhagen

A wobble board is a device for ankle rehabilitation after an injury. The issue is that the wobble-board trainingis quite boring. The main idea of this project is to use a wobble board as an input device for a computer game, as there are indications that playing games would increase motivation of doing otherwise boring exercises.

Pleo | Ugobe 

Every Pleo is autonomous. Yes, each one begins life as a newly-hatched baby Camarasaurus, but that's where predictability ends and individuality begins. Like any creature, Pleo feels hunger and fatigue - offset by powerful urges to explore and be nurtured. He'll graze, nap and toddle about on his own -when he feels like it! Pleo dinosaur can change his mind and his mood, just as you do.
 

 
Led Eyelashes | Soomi Park 
 
The LED Eyelashes, is a set of artificial eyelashes attached with LED lights. The project try to capture Korean's obsession to big eyes, and how this fetishism is interpreted into excessive plastic surgery done on the eyes among Korean women. When wearing the LED eyelashes, you look embellished as if you were wearing a piece of fashion jewelry  

Mind Chair | Beta Tank
You can't see with your skin. Or can you?

We are reviving this technology for sensory substitution. A movie camera is attached to an enhanced grid of 400 solenoids installed in the back of an ordinary polypropylene chair. People may be able to sit in the chair and see the images from the camera.
 

Optimus Mini-three | Art Lebedev 
Optimus mini three is the world’s first keyboard with color OLED screens. Optimus mini three is an auxiliary keyboard-informer with OLED technology. The three keys display static or animated images. Optimus mini three keyboard can be used as a toolbar, a remote control, an indicator or an RSS reader.
 

 
Mllamp | Kitchen Budapest

Mllamp project is an experiment for simulating emotions with putting minimal intelligence into everyday things. If it has some anropomorph character, the viewer can easily go into with recognizing human gestures. The interaction between the pair of Mllamps associated with human behavior can be recognized as emotions in lamps.

 
Arena 3D | Thomas Kienzl - Kommerz
Arena 3D is a combination of a newly developed interaction device and a special 3D software package.

The user generates individual communication tools out of virtual 3D spaces and tangible models to convey ideas, sell products, present companies or moderate workshops. The basis is the interaction with real world objects on an action surface and a 3-dimensional representation of the content on a screen.
 

 
Jabberstamp | Hayes Raffle

Jabberstamp is the first tool that allows children to synthesize their drawings and voices. To use Jabberstamp, children create drawings, collages or paintings on normal paper. They press a special rubber stamp onto the page to record sounds into their drawings. When children touch the marks of the stamp with a small trumpet, they can hear the sounds playback, retelling the stories they have created.'
 

 
Microsoft Photosynth | Microsoft
Photosynth is a technology, which has been developed by Microsoft Research, who, after having analysed a big collection of photos of objects and places, have collected and rendered them in a reconstructed 3-dimensional environment.
The technology can be used on photos of places, buildings or something else that people normally take pictures of (like The Notre Dame in Paris for example) found on the Internet. Photosynth is able to use those pictures to create amazing multi dimensional environments with zoom and navigation functions. 
 

 
Floating Light Bulb | Jeff Liebermann
Light bulb is a levitating yet powered light bulb. It will float stably in midair and remain on for years without any physical contact, charging, or batteries. Ironically, with the levitation and wireless power circuitry both on, this entire package still consumes less than half the power of an incandescent bulb.
 

FLARE | Whitevoid

FLARE is a pneumatic building facade system. The FLARE system consists of a number of tilt able metal flake bodies. An infinite array of flakes can be mounted on any building or wall surface.
 

 
 
XY interactive textile | Maurin Donneaud & Vincent Roudaut
The XY interactive textile is a large tactile interface for playing electronic music. The performer plays it simply by the movement of his/her hand on it's surface. This textile interface allows users to compose and interpret electronic music by choreographic movements.
 

Stickybot | Sangbae Kim, Mark Cutkosky and Barrett Heyneman

Stickybot is quadruped robot capable of climbing smooth surfaces, such as glass, acrylic and whiteboard using. The design is mostly inspired by morphologic study of the best climber, Gecko lizard.

Playful noise dampener- 
Small virtual animals move around people with an appropriate sound level. The technical parts consist of sound and movement sensors and also LEDs that react on the level of noise. A low noise level gives a good play. Child care centers, where carpets often lack practical fit, find joy in the fact that the good hygiene is kept with an anti-microbialtreatment, which keeps the carpet free from dust and bacteria.