In the 2004 edition of the Venice Biennale, there was this intriguing piece of work by Motohiko Odani and called Berenice: Some comments by Thomas Kramar: Ein Stockwerk höher, unter anderen räumlichen Krümmungen dieses so seltsam in sich gekrümmten Kunsthauses, liegt eine Art Ufo: eine Kugel, wirr...
Gadget about light for kids
Digital Light Studio: This is the digital light machine that allows children to create light sculptures by using seven freehand control knobs to manipulate 32 LEDs mounted on a spinning post under a 360 dome. In demonstration mode, the LEDs light up in different patterns, speeds, and directions to ...
Risk evaluation of pervasive computing
A quote from Jürgen Bohn, Vlad Coroama, Marc Langheinrich, Friedemann Mattern, Michael RohsLiving in a World of Smart Everyday Objects – Social, Economic, and Ethical Implications. Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 763-786, October 2004 Today’s technical infrastru...
Nintendo R.O.B
Who remembers Nintendo R.O.B (The Robotic Operating Buddy)? an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System released in 1984 in Japan as the "Famicom Robot" and in 1985 as R.O.B in North America. The R.O.B. functions by receiving commands via optical flashes from a television screen. With the h...
Wifi Camera Obscura
One of the recent project of Adam Somlai-Fisher, Usman Haque and Bengt Sjölén is " Wifi Camera Obscura": Wifi Camera Obscura reveals the electromagnetic space of our devices and the shadows that we create within such spaces, in particular our wifi networks which are increasingly found in coffee sho...
IEEE Computing on Urban Computing
The last issue of IEEE Computer is a special edition about urban computing. Here is the stance of the editors (Irina Shklovski from Carnegie Mellon University and Michele F. Chang, from ReD Associates): This special issue focuses on the topic of urban computing because we feel it is important to co...
loc8tor
Via timo: the loc8tor: Loc8tor uses a blend of exciting new technologies and traditional radio frequency (RF) technology. Both Tags and Handheld transmit and receive radio signals. The Loc8tor Handheld picks up this signal translating it in to clear audio and visual prompts to guide you in the righ...
Visual marker recognition
Yesterday, I attended to Enrico's rehearsal presentation about tagging and he made an interesting list of existing visual markers: AR toolkit visual codes spotcode QR code Datamatrix d-touch mytago Why do I blog this? to have a kind of list of such technology, just in case...
Gartner Hype cycle 2006
David pointed me on this instantiation of the Gartner Hype Cyle 2006: Location-aware technologies seem to be in the end of the disillusionment phase; I agree with the disillusionment thing and hope that it's reaching the end with innovative and user-oriented potentialities... ...
Historical elements of CSCW
The Context of CSCW by Liam J. Bannon and John A. Hughes is an interesting report that gives some contextual and historical elements of the research field I am doing my PhD work: Computer Supported Cooperative Work Some excerpts I found pertinent with regards to what I experiences: The term CSCW wa...