Using the tongue as interface seems to be a new innovation. Researchers at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition worked out an application called "Brain Port" that uses the tongue's ability to detect sonar echoes to control a PC. "Everything nowadays is so ubiquitous with mobile com...
Being in LA
I'm currently in Los Angeles for few things: participating to the "place" planel of the network publics conference, visiting my friend Julian Bleecker's lab and preparing the follow-up of our blogject project. Apart from watching empty streets with huge-sidewalks, frank gehry architecture, I sp...
Le Frontiere Dell'Interazione
Italian-speaking people might be interested in Le Frontiere Dell'Interazione, an event part of the UXnet network. As the local organizer puts it, this year event is going to be "intelligent" interfaces and artifacts, location aware devices, multimodalities and emotion aware avatars. It will be held...
Digital home education
Look at this superb design: the Intelli-Tikes™ Pasta Pack : “Intelli-Tikes™” interactive technology makes role play with our toy kitchens even more fun! Electronic chips in pretend foods are read by sensors in the stovetop, which respond with over 100 specific food and cooking phrases. Sensors in t...
About interference devices
I recently saw this intriguing news: a man who said he bought a device that allowed him to change stop lights from red to green received a $50 ticket for suspicion of interfering with a traffic signal.: Niccum was issued a citation March 29 after police said they found him using a strobe-like devic...
Fancy fishy RFID tags
(Via), it's as if the design of RFIS tags is more and more trendy; as those from Mannings: Would the form/shape of the tags play a role in the user acceptance? ...
Vodafone's Receiver new issue
The last issue of Vodafone's receiver is another refreshing arrival. Some papers are connected to my phd research (use of mobile devices for coordination in small groups). The most relevant one for my research is certainly the one of Jeff Axup called "Blog the World". Some excerpts that I liked: t...
New Media/Old Media
The Economist this week has a very insightful report on "new media". They did a great job giving a complete overview of what's new in socio-cultural practices due to the advent of blogs, wiki, IM and so on. There are just two articles available for free and they're not (IMO) the most interesting on...
Everyware: book review
I already presented some thoughts about "Everyware : The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing" by Adam Greenfield in this blog but here's a more detailed review. Overall, the book is an extremely complete overview of what is ubiquitous computing / pervasive computing / ambient computing / xxx. The t...
Google Map Games
Game on Google Maps offers a very good overview of the existing games that take advantage of google map. It ranges from very simple concept (finding a landmark) to more elaborate. With also ideas for possible implementations (Warcraft-like games or Risk or a revival of Where in the world is Carmen ...