The Nike+ Fuelband, Transformed Into An Interactive Music Video
Nike inspired this HTML-5 synesthetic abstraction of their FuelBand. Play it without even breaking a sweat!
Nike inspired this HTML-5 synesthetic abstraction of their FuelBand. Play it without even breaking a sweat!
Pictures. Waveforms. Play buttons. It’s not YouTube, it’s poetry.
The open-source toolkit from Mozilla uses the power of HTML5 to let web filmmakers create innovative interactivity around their videos.
Manhattan denizens sometimes describe the sounds of the subway as the city's incidental music. Now programmer/designer Alexander Chen has created a more soothing version with MTA.me, an interactive NYC subway map-turned-musical-instrument that uses transit lines as its strings.
HTML5 is many things to many people. It's a technical spec, it's an open-web philosophy writ large, it's a standards battleground with unintended consequences, it's The Future of The Internets?! How do you design a logo for all that?
Long and painful is the road of overcoming buzzwords and catchphrases in the interactive space. I've had to isolate the specific qualities that result in a "Web 2.0" solution. I've had to "make social" experiences from inanimate technologies. Yes, I can smell new jargon five months out. And thanks to Apple, Google, and Adobe, soon I'll be reading request-for-proposals that require me to take a new experience and "HTML5 it."
After months of speculation that grew into a fevered pitch of rumor and leakage, Apple today introduced the device that everyone's been talking about: A new type of handheld computer called the iPad.
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