Stimulant had a great time watching folks dance with #dBcube at the EMP Museum during the 2014 Decibel Festival, and are bringing it back to the Seattle Interactive Conference on October 15th and 16th. SIC isn’t really known for dance-offs, but perhaps we can change that! As part of the presentation, Microsoft and Stimulant will…
Stimulant is thrilled to announce the first-ever exhibition of The Cube, a new instrument for digital artwork. The Cube is a five-sided, internally-projected sculpture produced by Microsoft, displaying a digital art piece created by Stimulant which will be unveiled at the EMP Museum in Seattle as part of the 2014 Decibel Festival. The festival begins…
We had a chance to walk around InfoComm 2014 this year. There were lots of exciting things to see, and here are some highlights! Attack of the 98” 4k Screens! Seems like everyone is showing off gigantic pieces of glass. LG, NEC, Planar, Panasonic, and Samsung all were showing 98” 4k screens. Not only are…
This was Stimulant’s third year attending the Eyeo Festival and once again it didn’t disappoint. The event took place over a full week this year and was jam-packed with tasty goodness. The days were filled with workshops led by design visionaries and sought-after creative coders, keynotes from some of the most inspirational big thinkers, and…
Seattle’s Bezos Center for Innovation has won a 2014 American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Media & Technology Muse Award! Stimulant collaborated with exhibit designer Olson Kundig Architects to produce two large-scale interactive installations, including the multi-user, gesture- and touch-controlled launchpad exhibit. The Muse awards recognize outstanding achievement in Galleries, Libraries, Archives or Museums (GLAM) media, and are presented…
Amidst the “busy-ness” of April — meeting tax deadlines, observing holidays, and the ordinary course of business — we stumbled across some extraordinary eye openers in technology. The following faves really made us take notice: 1. The Lytro Illum threatens to rewrite the rules of prosumer photography, with its use of light field technology. The Lytro allows one to…
It must be springtime! Several of our biggest hits in the month of March hearkened back to childhood, youth, and renewal. 1. Our favorite diversion was this post from Mashable, 23 Kids Having a Worse Monday than You, with 23 videos reminding us that stumbling and falling down are a part of creativity and growth…even for…
The SFBT caught up with Darren David in their latest CEO Spotlight series. In this Q&A Darren talks about lessons he’s learned building the company, what’s next for Stimulant, and a selection of his favorite San Francisco spots.
LoopLoop for Sifteo Cubes, Intel’s Connect to Life Experience at CES 2012 and Bing for Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft® PixelSense™ were chosen as three of 172 award-winning designs in the most recent HOW Interactive Design Awards. This highly selective and well-regarded competition sponsored by HOW Magazine recognizes outstanding creative work produced by individuals and creative…
