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Apple has a new patent pending that gives users the possibility to view a 3D object on the screen. Just move your head to let the object rotate and to look around the object. Information could be tracked via iSight-Camera or infrared sensors and translated into controlling input. A similar system of virtual reality has been developed by Johnny Lee: He is using a WiiRemote for Head Tracking. 

An incredible story. Fede Alvarez from Uruguay uploaded a short film to YouTube in November 2009. It is 4 mins 48 sconds long and was made on a budget of $300. Hollywood saw it and offered him a $30,000,000 contract to make a Hollywood film.

The agency Lost Boys reinterprets the Christmas tree and its role as the traditional focal point for a communal space.

The MIT team has developed a technique for turning innovative new touch-screen displays into giant lensless cameras. They've built a prototype that demonstrates one application of such displays: letting users manipulate on-screen images using hand gestures without gloves or tracking tags on your fingers.

Great. 70 workers are building a wooden 4 x 12 m "digital" time display in real time: a work that involves 1611 changes within 24 hour period.

A founder of Fork Unstable Media and an ex-professor of the Academy of Art and Design (HfG) David Linderman is a new creative director at Hi-ReS!

Dash through the electric snow and check out these bits of bytes. 10 seasonal sites are waiting for you. Hope you like your presents!

This installation by Gebhard Sengmüller, in collaboration with Franz Büchinger, uses photoreceptors to transmit brightness levels to the other side of the display.

A very warm welcome to our new friends from Ars Thanea! We're excited to work with them on cool digital projects in the future.