Billy Butlin was among the first few to have given a thought to an all-inclusive family holiday, and now the vision is being realized with the grand, seven-story Ocean Hotel that boasts of 200 extra comfy rooms. Constructed at the existing Butlins resort in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, this one has all the added spunk of a modern day luxury hotel complete with he fancy lifts, disco music and some spectacular lighting systems, especially the one under-bed ones for kids.

And that’s not the only highlight. The luxury resort proudly presents a 670-square meter spa that integrates a snow cave complete with artificial snow farms as well. The total worth of the hotel is £20m. So you can be quite sure to get a royal treatment with the various relaxation pods and treatment rooms with lasers as well as the tummypod that lets expecting mother treat they unborn babies to some classical music.

The hotel also has some cool interactive disco singing showers. For a four-night mid-week holiday for four, you have to pay between £366 and £800. Breakfast included. And for a week long break, it will cost you about £1,440.

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Product presentation was never so tech savvy! With the new �atracTable� you can now impress your customers in just a few seconds. Transform your conventional counter or information desk into an astonishing interactive surface with atracTable. The multi-touch surface offers you an infinite number of tools and possibilities for a surprising presentation.

Present your products in a stylish new way by simply placing them on an atracTable and the table takes care of the rest with creating a special ambiance around them. For each product placed on the user-friendly surface, a menu-based interface appears with which you can interact directly with the intuitive movements of one or more of your fingers. Browse the menu, move the objects or use the multimedia effects for an innovative presentation.

AtracTable is the combination of video-based movements tracking system, a computer, a beamer, and a screen. It�s interesting how much easier and fun filled a simple product presentation could be made. Less time consuming and more satisfactory information could be extracted within seconds! It could be brought to a wide range of utility.

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Featured here is an Illuminating table from Cinimod Studio designed to enhance the appeal of your interiors. Coalescing 3-D arrays of interactive color progress monitored by its surroundings, the Illuminating Table aims at infusing a fresh breath of life in your room. Functional in “generative art” form, the table utilizes algorithms to craft a frequently varying pattern of shades where grouping of exclusively select glass types offer the delusion of a continual sense of room inside the white glass box. When operational, the table format sports all the artwork encumbered onto it, thereby offering an unswerving and upholding interactive and receptive power that allows users be with the artwork.
Possibly developed by Reed Richards, the furniture item can be seen a weapon to enter into the Negative mode.

The interactive creation by Cinimod Studio aims at ateking yopu to a new level without any usage of chemicals or spirits.

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After the usage of interactive floors for imparting knowledge amongst kids (albeit still a concept), the realistic turn taken by interactive flooring is clearly visible at The Science Museum as part of their “Science for Survival” exhibition. Featuring an interesting projection by experts, Arcstream AV has unveiled their revolutionary offering of an Interactive Floor ‘Living Image’. How this system works: Its access to an overhead projector and a variety of sensors performs the real-time changing of an image as and when some on goers steps upon. The floor interaction via changing images of pool of water, fishes, water ripples purely depends upon the movement of people walking on it. Its infra-red sensors provided by Electrosonic enables top track several people at one go.

Check out the demo:

The projector used has a reasonably normal resolution of 1024 x 768, but is chiefly bright at 6,500 Lumens.

It is the ability of this technology that very beautifully engages people’s senses i.e. sight, sound and touch. The exhibition would be open till November 2008.

Via SlashGear/ AboutProjectors