Canadian Twitter Based Murals

The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) has launched interactive murals to inspire Americans to book a Canadian vacation. These murals have taken over the streets of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles this summer – pulling content from Twitter to display real-time updates from and about Canada. The digital storescapes celebrate the CTC’s comprehensive social media strategy, and follow its 2009 Marketer of the Year award from Marketing Magazine.

WESC Interactive Window Display Concept by Module Advanced Interface Design

Interactive Window Concept made for the module Advanced Interface Design at Hyper Island hosted by North Kingdom. Links: Beatriz Areilza bareilza.com, Gustaf Engström gustafengstrom.se, Juliana Oliveira Silva cargocollective.com/?julianasilva, Lucas Lima luklima.com, Marcus Wallander lorem-ipsum.se

Surface 2.0 by Microsoft

This new version of Surface is powered by a multicore CPU and GPU by AMD and will be manufactured by Samsung (SUR 40) in a partnership with Microsoft. What’s special about the new version is that the new Surface is just 4? thick and uses the new PixelSense technology where every pixel is an infrared sensor (instead of a camera like the old Surface), making the device slim enough to be wall-mountable. The new Surface also features the biggest piece of Gorilla Glass ever produced. Sinofsky demonstrated the accuracy of the new PixelSense technology by placing a piece of paper in front of the Surface and the device was able to read the text accurately.

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