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NearInteraction and the Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações do Centenário da República.

NearInteraction — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:34:27 +0000

NearInteraction is proud to represent the Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações do Centenário da República (developed for the centennial celebrations since Republic implementation) with a travelling exhibition of a multi-touch interactive table that reads QR coded cards. Already displayed at two official meetings, the Congresso da Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses, in Viseu, Portugal, and a formal launch in the Biblioteca do Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, in Lisbon, Portugal, the table will be moving to multiple events and several locations around the country. The table displays an intuitive interface upon which the visitors can explore, amongst other topics, the significant events of the Republic, biographies of representative people as well as all the events and initiatives taking place in 2010 as part of the celebrations.

Portuguese Success : Close Encounters of the Future Kind

NearInteraction — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:38:37 +0000

“Please Touch: Their exhibition at Future Labs at the Communications Foundation in Lisbon is attracting alot of curiosity about the next steps in new technology.” We are proud to be featured in Portugal´s own airline magazine, TAP UP. The magazine is available onboard during January. So if you are mile high, have a look out for us in there!

Featured in “Jornal de Negócios” newspaper

NearInteraction — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:36:54 +0000

This month we were featured in Portugal´s “Jornal de Negócios” feature on technological start-up businesses. Diogo Terroso says about NearInteraction´s conception, “There is a conspicuous gap in the ability of companies and organisations to combine and successfully incorporate both creativity and technology, and it is this void that I decided to explore with NearInteraction, to bridge technology and design with innovation.”

Interactive LEDwall at ModaLisboa | Estoril Fashion Force’33

NearInteraction — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:25:01 +0000

NearInteraction joined forces with ModaLisboa | Estoril to create an interactive application for their catwalk LEDwall.
Following the success of the previous edition, where NearInteraction featured an interactive multi-touch table that allowed realtime visualisation of the catwalk pictures immediately after each show, for this edition, NearInteraction presented a generative application that responds visually to the movement of each model as well as the sound accompanying the show.

watch the Aleksandar Protic video
watch the making of video

Habitar Portugal - Ordem dos Arquitectos

NearInteraction — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:47:49 +0000

In collaboration with dass, NearInteraction created an interactive installation for the launch of the exhibition Habitar Portugal.
What will the City of the Future be?
Playtecture is an fictional architectural game that explores the theme of the future of the city, by creating an urban, playful, dynamic and emotional ambiance that changes and interacts in real-time with the public.

watch the playtectures video

NearInteraction featured in the Expresso newspaper

NearInteraction — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:21:21 +0000

NearInteraction was featured in the cover the economy section of the portuguese newspaper “Expresso” - leading the “new wave of technology based companies that do not fear the crisis”.

TEDxEdges Conference in Lisbon

NearInteraction — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:04:08 +0000

September saw NearInteraction as the TEDxEdges Chromium Sponsor proudly contributing to the conference that took place in Lisbon.

Throughout the duration of the event, TEDxEdges featured an innovative multi-touch application developed by NearInteraction, in collaboration with Pacifica and The Others, which allowed the participants real-time navigation of all the comments shared through the Twitter platform. The multi-touch table, presented by NearInteraction at TEDxEdges, is an unique hardware that allows multi-user interaction through touch, combined with graphics and visual information displayed directly on the surface.

watch the video

NearInteraction talks to Falar Global

NearInteraction — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:55:31 +0000

The multi-touch technology presented by NearInteraction in the exhibition Future Labs was featured in the TV program “Falar Global”, a show dedicated to information and communication technologies, from the Portuguese TV channel SIC Noticias.
NearInteraction CEO, Diogo Terroso, introduced some of the innovations presented at the exhibition and how they anticipate the future “… we have systems increasingly close to what is interaction among people, and the innate systems that take place in their daily interaction”.

watch the video

ExperimentaDesign Lisbon 2009

NearInteraction — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:34:56 +0000

Featured in ExperimentaDesign Lisbon 2009, Urban Fluxes is an interactive window developed by NearInteraction that makes use of the Facebook platform being exhibited until the 22nd of September in the Hotel Bairro Alto, in Lisbon.
Connected via mobile phone and the Internet, the aplication feeds from information generated by the dynamics of the city inhabitants, its visitors, and the complex inter-connections that are created between people and their environment.

watch the video

London College of Fashion Graduate Exhibition 2009

NearInteraction — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:29:47 +0000

NearInteraction designed and produced the 2009 London College of Fashion Graduate Exhibition, in association with Paul Albert and John Nussey.

The 2009 Graduate Exhibition displays six multi-touch tables with integrated object recognition to unveil the 570 student portfolios. From a wide choice displayed on the three walls, visitors can make a selection of their preferred cards. Activating once a card is placed on the tables, visitors can move, zoom and rotate by touching the surface of the table a variety of portfolio images representing the chosen student.

watch the video of the exhibition
watch the making-of