Some design studio are envisionning the use of origami displays: as attested by this Origami Cell Phone and this Origami DVD player This is a future cell phone concept developed at Inventables. The concept was inspired by the e-paper developed by Mag-Ink and the Popout Map. The map uses origami pap...
Beyond today's fiction
Heard in "No Maps for Those Territories" (doc interview of William Gibson): "when those events occur, it changes the nature of the game; another example and maybe a better one is when it was confirmed that Michael Jackson was going to marry Elvis Presley's daughter, a good friend of mine in the Sta...
How will our grand-nephews live in 2012?
In 1912, Alphonse Norgeu did a wonderful postcard serie for the "Chocolat Lombart" company (printed on chromolithography); it's called "Comment vivront nos arrière-neveux en l'an 2012" (How will our grand-nephew live in 2012?) (Source : Trésors des Postes et Télégraphes, PTT Cartophilie, 1989.) 1...
Ingrid Hora's work and extreme users
While doing random searches on google image, I ran across the work of Ingrid Hora. I like her research agenda: There is a whole category of people living on the order of madness and normality. I want to narrate the life of a disordered (or hyper ordered) society, a life of people left on their own....
From Information Literacy to Disconnection Literacy
Deloitte's new report "Eye to the Future: How TMT advances could change the way we live in 2010" is a curious read; especially when it explains how technology is expected to keep changing the workplace and who will be able to manage it. "More and more, the ability to get things done is expected to ...
GeoRSS aggregator
Brainoff has posted this mapufacture, a geoRSS aggregator: mapufacture is a GeoRSS aggregator. here you can layer multiple GeoRSS feeds from different sources into a single map, and search the database of GeoRSS feeds by keyword and location. search results are themselves available as GeoRSS feeds....
Chocolate Experience for Cadbury
Chocolate Infinity is a project from the HMC MediaLab for Cadburys Chocolate Factory. It's carried out by Adam Montandon and HMC members. It interestingly used a shock sensitive floor and a series of motion sensors to immerse people in an intriguing interaction (to improve the visitors' experience)...
Cyber rodent: robots and learning mechanisms
Cyber rodent seems to be a classical research project that use robots to study goal-directed behaviors. Based on the theories of reinforcement learning and evolutionary computation, we exlore parallel learning mechanisms using a colony of small rodent-like mobile robots called Cyber Rodents. Cyber ...
Submerging technologies
Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL), and Paul Dietz in particular, seems to be working on something called Submerging Technologies (as attested by this SIGGRAPH presentation): Goal: To show, somewhat whimsically, how emerging sensing technologies can be applied in unusual ways. Three int...
User experience of Community Displays
"Understanding and Designing for the Voluntary Adoption of Community Displays" by Harry Brignull is a very relevant thesis that deals with large digital wall display system for the support of informal social interaction in communal spaces. One of the contributions of this thesis is a critical analy...