The NYT on lower-cost 3D object fabrication. The article shortly introduces some devices and prices but what is interesting are the implications. Some excerpts: "These tools are not news to the industrial designers of the world (...) But now hobbyists and small businesses are starting to benefit fr...
Living in the future
"my interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there" - Charles Kettering Why do I blog this? I quite like that quote. And yes, the future is made out of bad wiring and infrastructures like the one represented on the picture. ...
No better training for the 21st century than being a third-culture kid.
An article in the FT by John Lanchester this week-end dealt with the notion of "third-culture kid": children who accompany their parents when they went to live in countries other than their own and then become hybrid (taking elements of the “home” culture from which their parents came and the cultu...
"Evaluations" in CHI
From Mice to Men – 24 years of Evaluation in CHI by Louise Barkhuus and Jennifer A. Rode, alt.chi 2007. The paper reports a comprehensive analysis of how practitioners and academics have employed evaluation in CHI through the past 24 years: what are the roles of evaluation? how it evolved? what typ...
Starting a new job
New job starting from April 1st, 2007 is researcher at Jef Huang's Media and Design Lab (Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne / EPFL). What for? as described in the contract: "to explore research & funding opportunities, and conduct interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of gaming platfor...
Influences of forecasts
"While think tanks play many roles, an example that brings home their importance now and in the future is the increasing interest in long-range forecasting and thinking about the future. (...) What we must realize now is that as institutions assume the formal role of casting about in the future, th...
Talk at Mobile Monday Barcelona
Here are the annotated slides (pdf, 4.2Mb) of the talk I gave at Mobile Monday Barcelona. Thank you Fabien and Rudy for inviting me there. The talk was entitled "Sinking one’s teeth into new metaphors for mobile gaming" and was basically a critique of the current state of mobile gaming. Instead of...
Orwellian cameras on a plazza called "George Orwell"
Seen in Barcelona two days ago: ...
Future of books according to the E
An article from last week's edition of The Economist deal with the future of readings and books. Some excerpts I found pertinent: "So who is going to read the millions of pages that Google and its colleagues are so busy digitising? Some people will read them on-screen, some will use Google as a tas...
Multitouch live performance
(via) French company JazzMutant, released a multitouch controller for live performance named "Lemur": "The Lemur’s pioneering concept relies on JazzMutant’s unique patented multitouch technology. While conventional mice, touchscreens and tablets are limited to single contact points, the Lemur’s mu...