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Organigami Project
Organigami website was in Spanish language, luckily foreign language class years back ago help me even a bit. This project about multi-touch table that allows multiple people to manipulate the "organic" creature on the table. By scratching and pulling the visualized creature will respond by going into your direction for example. The table uses a beamer below the surface with mirror to project the visualization.
Organigami was develop by designers Mireia Subirana and Iván Aguado.
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Eyewitness to Genocide
Interactive Table 2009
Potion has creates "Eyewitness to Genocide" to mimic the urgency of an emergency response center, arming visitors to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with resource to take action against genocide.
As visitors enter the centerpiece of the museum's newest exhibit, they are pulled into action by twenty-five overhead screens sharing eyewitness testimonies. Visitors may then approach the grand-scale wood table that serves as a resource and storytelling platform.
The overhead screens provide an ongoing human soundtrack with each screen coressponding to a person who has experienced genocide. The stories, drawn from the museum's collection are not only from survivors but also perpetrators, activist and others involved, creating an intricate narrative for visitors.
Below screens, visitors can take their action towards ending genocide by touching the dynamic interactive table. A sweep of the hand pulls up background information, documents and photographic evidence bringing visitors face-to-face with people of Bosnia, Rwada and Darfur.Potion designed the table to foster shared experience, allowing up to twelve visitors to open stories at the same time with even more reading on. To encourage sharing and reflection outside the museum, Potion has created an interactive paper bookmark, allowing visitors to save and share their most moving stories via a customized exhibit website.
This multi-media installation is centered in an exhibit designed by C&G Partners in coordination with Small Design Firm.
"The purpose of such interactive elements of a museum installation is clear:each person-here in the United States and all over the world-has a personal responsibility to consider how he or she can take action to prevent future atrocities, future genocides and future crimes against humanity. A crime against humanity is a crime against everyone."_ Enough Project Blog
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Private Tasting Table
Interactive Dining Table on 2008
For New York's St.Regis Hotel, an establishment renowned for personal service, Potion created a custom interactive bar and tasting table to expand the reach of the master Sommelier in their new restaurant by Alain Ducasse.
Potion worked closely with the Rockwell Group and The Map Office to design the overall experience at Adour. Constructed from cast bronze with a goat skin surface, Potion's interactives are as far from a traditional touch screen as one can get. Potion's large-scale interactive projections seamlessly blend with the environment, allowing patrons to browse Adour's complete wine list by wine type, country and varietal. They also serve as a dynamic form of lighting within the finely crafted space.
Upon selecting a wine, a rosette appears that contains detailed information about the wine's origin. Sommeliers ans patrons alike may share or send their rosettes to other guests at the bar. At the touch-sensitive Private Tasting Table, Potion's software allows the maitred to create a unique group experience for guests, "setting the table" with personalized wine selections. To keep the experience fresh, Potion create a custom content management system for Adour, allowing the wine director to update he interactive bar on daily basis and for special occasions.
"Ducasse, along with Rockwell and Potion, has..used technology and design to enhance the pleasure of wine-drinking." -Business Week
This one they use as Private Dining Table at the same place.
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Would you like to have poker while eating?
Designed and built by students at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Poker Surface magically combines a multitouch surface with an interactive mobile application that enables users to see their cards when they tilt the phone upwards towards their face. Then, users can complete a play by sliding in their bet(s) and flipping their hand once they're all-in. There's no word on when (or if) this gambler's dream will be available for shipment to man caves everywhere, but you owe it to yourself to peek the video after the break, regardless.
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