In an essay in the latest Art Forum magazine, architect Rem Koolhaas focuses his current research on what he calls the “new, networked technologies that are transforming the way we experience space and time,” and, he said, “seem resolutely intangible, a universe apart from bricks and mortar.”

These technologies, he believes, are changing our experience of space and time so profoundly that they are leaving contemporary design far behind.

A new digital image platform just launched in Brooklyn—Meural—proves his point exactly. It takes the idea of digital frame hanging on our walls and makes it interactive with the addition of an app. Purchasers of the new technology get a wooden frame by designer Richard Clarkson that is simultaneously a beautiful object and a platform to display Meural’s body of images. The company has created alliances with various image providers that will make newly created works of art and classic paintings from museums all over the world available for downloading.

The Meural frame uses a new ambient light sensor technology with which you can—with the swipe of your hand over the frame—change its mages to suit your mood or audience. The new platform costs $399 for now, but it will eventually be raised to $499. The service will continue to add new images to its data bank and moves our interiors ever closer to an entirely responsive environment.