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"You don't just look at paintings anymore. A new exhibition at Tate Britain transforms visual art into a multi-sensory experience, surrounding paintings with sounds, scents, tactile sensations and tastes inspired by the artwork.  "

Video games have been making use of surround sound for years now but surround lighting? That's new. Indie game Chariot is the world's first to flick the switch on, partnering with Philips for its "connected lighting" system Hue.

"A team of researchers at EPFL have developed a prototype that uses in-car cameras to analyse drivers' facial expressions to detect emotion, in particular irritation."

"Steven Soderbergh's latest project-an interactive smartphone app called Mosaic-required covering most of the walls in a Chelsea loft with color-coded cards and notes. The app contains a 7-plus-hour miniseries about a mysterious death, but because viewers have some agency over what order they watch it in and which characters' stories they follow, each scene-and the point at which it should be introduced-had to be meticulously planned so that no detail was revealed too late or too soon. "