Remember the Furby and the Tamagotchi? Both toys sold like electronic pets and both big in Japan. Now there is a new digital pet from Japan, the’ Smartpet’ (I do love the name). ‘Smartpet’ by Japanese producers Bandai transforms users’ iPhones into robotic puppies, capable of moving and responding to voice and gestural interactions. after an initial march …

Coldplay has been turning their audience into interactive participants at recent concerts by handing them Xylobands, LED-illuminated wristbands that can be activated all at once using a radio signal. The wristbands come in a variety of colors and have the Twitter hashtag #coldplayfilm printed on them to promote the band’s live DVD. When ‘turned on’ at …

The tyent ‘under counter extreme 9000T water ionizer‘ is a touchscreen-controlled system for water purification and can be described as the tap of the future! Via two distinct spouts and the ‘turbo’ function, the pH of the water can be specifically set to as low as 2.0 and as high as 12.0: highly oxygenated, strongly alkaline …

Adam Martinakis is a digital artist from Athens, Greece, that primarily works with 3D. He creates environments and humanoids in a surreal, hyper-realistic, abstract condition. Pure, Potent shit. Be careful. VIA http://www.behance.net/adamakis

Italian street furniture design company metalco has developed an interactive, outdoor public transit station for paris entitled ‘Osmose’. the ‘smart stop’ at Gare de Lyon station has been fashioned by french architect Marc Aurel of MA studio, and is the first of what will be several interactive transport stations placed through out the city. ‘Osmose’ is Metalco’s solution …

L’Oreal Paris has released a free iPhone app called ‘The Color Genius,’ which allows people to take a picture of what they’re wearing and then pick the perfect eyeshadow, lipstick, and nail polish to match, blend or clash with their outfit. The handy app also asks if the make-up is needed for daytime or nighttime. …

How would you like to wear a visualization of all the places you have traveled? Or maybe just a necklace designed from destinations that hold a sentimental value to you? Meshu, a new jewelry start up, gives offers the ability to do just that. The initiative, started by data visualizer Sha Hwang and interaction designer Rachel …

QR codes have been exhibiting an uncharacteristic characteristic lately—they’ve been not sucking as much. We had the Korean retailer’s 3-D sunlight-activated QR code, which was scannable only at lunch, when the shadows lined up. Now, we have this Guinness QR code on a beer glass, dreamed up by BBDO New York. It’s literally activated by the product—you …

Well, frankly speaking there is a bunch of design studios that often pop out some over-trendy concepts. One of them is italian ADR Studio that already teased consumors with fake iCam concept half year ago and vanished in huge wave of blogs posts. Now they picked up Instagram brand as an aim. Briefly they designed a real camera …