Thunderspace

New app creates a relaxing thunderstorm experience using stereoscopic 3D audio

Sometimes there’s nothing more calming than hearing the soft sounds of rain against your window. The newest app from the user interface research lab Taptanium, called Thunderspace, takes relaxing nature sounds to the next level with stereoscopic 3D audio and flashes that mimic lightning. In collaboration with Emmy-winning nature sound recordist Gordon Hempton, Thunderspace captures the experience of a thunderstorm outside your window and puts …

Wavegarden 2.0

An in-depth look at the revolutionary artificial surfing wave with founder José Manuel Odriozola

The idea of a wave-pool often calls to mind crowded water-parks with little ripples that are hardly worthy of their name. Spain’s Wavegarden, the emerging leader in wave-pool technology is quickly changing that. Wavegarden creates consistently perfect, surf-able waves with minimal environmental impact and energy output. While the company has been around since 2005, it’s only recently that they unveiled version 2.0—with larger, longer, more …

The Guggenheim App

The iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum launches a mobile app to coincide with the opening of artist James Turrell's solo exhibition

Replacing the embarrassingly bulky recorder and headset once required for an audio tour, the Guggenheim’s new mobile app comes flush with insightful information, images and video to enhance past and present art exhibitions held in the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum. While the Guggenheim isn’t the first to use the mobile platform—the MoMA introduced their own app in May of 2012, for example—the launch comes …