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Nordstorm :

Please DO Touch the Glass: Our Interactive Window

We were inspired during our March Designer Campaign to do something a little different with our window displays this month.

We’ve talked before about our partnership with Glen Luchford and Ruben Toledo and how they brought writing with light into our Spring 2011 Designer Catalog. It was such a fascinating process, and we wanted to bring a little taste of it to customers and passersby at our Downtown Seattle Flagship Store.

Our brilliant Interactive Development, Visual Merchandising and Operations Teams put their heads together and brought light writing with light to life. With the help of Kinect’s infrared technology and their technical genius, our teams created a seamlessly interactive display that anyone can “paint” on with using just the motion of their hands in front of the glass.

We’ve loved watching the curiosity and delight of people engaging with our windows. So, if you’re in the neighborhood now through April 11, be sure to drop by—and please do touch the glass.

Notes: 9 4/6/11 — 9:36am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zoo9Uy4598yY Filed under: #nordstorm  #interactive  #window display  #kinect  #kinect hack  #tech 

be your own souvenir

Engadget.com :

As souvenirs go, a miniature replica of yourself — striking a pose of your choosing on Barcelona’s La Rambla street — is a far sight more original than a bullfights-and-senoritas snow globe. This past January, the hilariously titled BlablabLAB enlisted three Kinects and a RepRap machine to snap passersby and render them into personalized tchotchkes, in a project called Be Your Own Souvenir. Subjects stood atop a small platform, mimicking the human statues on La Rambla, as the (hacked) Kinects captured their likeness in full 360-degree glory. The resulting images were then processed as a mesh reconstruction, saved as a G-code file, and then fed through a 3D printer — and voila, out popped the tiny statuettes. If you’re a fan of flashy editing and Kinect-based street experiments, check out the video after the break.

4/6/11 — 8:54am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zoo9Uy455RAH Filed under: #barcelona  #kinect  #souvenir  #spain  #tech  #kinect hack