The Popinator
Thinkmodo in USA has created "The Popinator", a machine that instantly delivers popcorn into a person's mouth just by saying the word "pop". 
Made for internal use "The Popinator" is able to pinpoint where in the room the spoken word originated from and shoot a piece of popcorn at it. Popcorn can be shot up to 15 feet.
ibis Sleep Art
What does sleep look like? ibis Hotels has set out to answer that question through a robot that wakes up to create custom 'Sleep Art' when you fall a sleep. 80 sensors concealed in the mattress transmit temperature, movements and sound to the robot who in turn transforms your signals into brush strokes on a canvas live through the night.
The 'Sleep Art' experience is currently available in Paris, London and Berlin. To register for it people need to fill in a form via the ibis Hotels Facebook page.
UPDATE - March 13, 2013
Now there is also an iPhone app that captures and sketches your movements throughout the night in order to create beautiful abstract painting of your night's sleep. The app is free and available for download on iTunes.
The Art of Ironing
Earlier this year I had covered a couple of novel approaches to art. Joining that collection is the below video from Philips Russia where they have demonstrated the unique performance of their irons and steamer products by creating famous Dutch paintings on a plain piece of white cloth...
The book that cannot wait
Last month I wrote about Austria Solar's annual report, whose pages became visible only when exposed to sunlight.
Now Buenos Aires based bookshop and publisher Eternal Cadencia has released 'El libro que no puede esperar' i.e. 'The book that cannot wait' – an anthology of new fiction printed in ink that disappears after two months of opening the book!
How is that possible? Well the books are silk-screened using a special ink and then sealed in an air-tight packaging that once opened allows the printed material to react with the atmosphere. The result being that after two months, the text vanishes.
In the age of portable electronic readers and e-books, I think this a magical way of adding an element of urgency to reading while motivating readers, promoting authors and at the same time benefiting physical book publishers.
Austria Solar Annual Report 2011
Solar energy is the key area of business for Vienna based Austria Solar. Their ad agency Serviceplan was given the task to develop a surprising and attention grabbing annual report that not only puts solar energy to paper, but also positions Austria Solar as a consistently innovative industry organization in the Austrian solar sector.
So a special printing process was used that allowed the content of the individual pages only to become visible when sunlight fell on it! The finished report was then wrapped in a light-proof foil and sent to the members of the Austrian solar organization along with various representatives from business and politics.
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