A brand new 3,300 m2 bookstore, Byblos, opens later today, in Lisbon’s Amoreiras Square. Besides 150.000 books, Byblos offers customers five didactic and recreational based interactive solutions conceived by YDreams.
A yStores Shop Window won’t let you miss the store when walking by on the street. Accessible from the street, this interactive touch sensitive interface enables customers to access Byblos-related content anytime of day or night. Inside Byblos, you’ll find an yMagic Book by the auditorium with the scheduled activities.
A specific area designed for kids includes the yLight - a magic lantern whose light source is used to drop the pieces of a thematic virtual puzzle into place; the yWalk – an interactive walkway representing a virtual garden; and a virtual board game - aTrivial Pursuit’ style board game based on kids’ literature.
Congratulations to all YDreamers involved in this successful project!
Next spring sensational OFFF is coming to Lisbon 8, 9 & 10 May. The event promises sensorial exercises in synesthesia, stage performances comprised of computer code and legendary participants from the fields of graphic design and visual communication.
I am personally looking forward to OFFF Lisbon 2008 and would love to see YDreams amongst the headlining participants because from the sounds of it, this one is right up our alley. Read more about OFFF.
YDreams has invited Professor Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, to give a talk at the Faculty of Science and Technology, at the New Lisbon University, on the 27th of November at 14:30.
Lecturing on “Beyond the Digital Revolution”, Neil Gershenfeld, selected as a Time/CNN/Fortune “Principal Voice” and one of the top 100 public intellectuals around today, will present recent advances and new forms of exploring scientific investigation in areas such as Quantum computation and personal fabrication.
Gershenfeld will also be focusing on work developed through Fab Labs (Fabrication Labs), part of the MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) which broadly explores how the content of information relates to its physical representation. The Fab Lab program has strong connections with the technical outreach activities of a number of partner organizations, around the emerging possibility for ordinary people to not just learn about science and engineering but actually design machines and make measurements that are relevant to improving the quality of their lives. The program is underway in countries that include Costa Rica, Norway, India, Ghana and South Africa.
Below, video of Neil Gershenfeld’s Ted Talk about The beckoning promise of personal fabrication.
