Amazement in the palm of your hand
In 2004 I created this completely magical interactive experience called The Butterfly Garden for the Submerge exhibition. Its a memorable interactive illusion that puts digital butterflies all around you. Born in the palm of your hand, the interactive creatures flutter from flower to flower, until they eventually fly off Read the Rest…

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Data saved to your skin
The Question Table was a prototype design that I created, along with Mike Cobb, as a test to see how information could be saved to your skin.
Based on similar technology that I developed in the Butterfly Garden project, the Question Table was an entirely new concept.
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Going beyond the screen with Hyperfabric
Hyperfabric is one of my all time favourite inventions. I created it as a beautiful art installation that would allow people to go beyond the screen, with a new tactile interface. I came up with the name “Hyperfabric” because I wanted to suggest that new things could be combined in Read the Rest…

Virtual chocolate gets everywhere — especially when you’re in the Chocolate Infinity installation at Cadbury World’s Purple Planet where you can play with electronic chocolate that does just about everything except add to your waistline.
As you enter the infinity room a giant chocolate bar melts into gloopy puddles beneath you and, when you jump in Read the Rest…

Neil contacted me recently telling me about his latest update, a cyborg ring that reads colours. You can see it in action in this video.

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Here is a really nice documentary on one of my projects for Discovery Channel Canada.
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Ben Bradshaw, Minister For South West and Health Minister came to Twofour Studios yesterday (Monday 10 November) for the official opening of the MediaLab – the experiential centre for digital innovation created by HMC Interactive. At the event, attended by over 40 VIP guests including Alison Seabeck MP for Plymouth Devonport, the Minister unveiled Read the Rest…

I just found this really nice video of Cyborg Neil Harbisson using the Eyeborg system I designed for him back in 2004. Its always fun when you make a surprise appearance on TV so take a peek at 2:56! There are some sections of the video in English so take a look.
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In this series, people who love to party and live to excess will be given their very own ‘living autopsy’. Using an exciting new graphic projection technique, they will be able to see their own body opening up as if they were undergoing an autopsy.
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Neil Harbisson, Eye-Borg wearer and student at Dartington College of Art: “I was in a lecture given by Adam Montandon in Dartington college and he was talking about cybernetics and cyborgs and how new technology can change the way we perceive the world and, when he finished and asked him if he thought it would Read the Rest…

I worked on this project, so here’s the video. More explanations to follow shortly!
HMC Interactive have completed work on the first of three major two-day conferences for the Driving Standards Agency. A touch-screen based interactive voting system was designed and built to allow nearly 300 conference attendees to ask questions, fill out surveys and leave Read the Rest…

This video talks about Visual Voice Pro, the software I designed for music therapy rooms. It was filmed at PMZ.

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Here are two more high resolution photos of us behind the scenes at Living coasts. One is of myself testing out our interactive floor with its state of the art infa-red sensors in a system I designed and tested myself. The other picture is of Luke Angell testing out the 3 touch screens mounted into Read the Rest…

Here is a short video interview following my keynote speech at the LegoLand innovation conference in Denmark.
After the keynote students asked me questions on innovation and creativity, and here is the result.
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Arch-OS is an ‘Operating System’ that harnesses these new architectural, technological and social dimensions. Arch-OS, ’software for buildings’, has been developed to manifest the social, technological and environmental life of a building and provide a living laboratory for cultivating transdisciplinary knowledge. Arch-OS buildings will be permanently in a state of flux. By feeding on the Read the Rest…