In his book "Everyware : The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing", Adam Greenfield says that: I've never actually met someone who owns one of the "ambient devices" supposed to represent the first wave of calm technology for the home. There seems to be little interest in the various "digital home" s...
What are "Futurists" responsibilities
(Via the dr fish mailing list), a "futurist" position is available at the NYT: The New York Times Company is looking for a Futurist for its new Research & Development group. The ideal candidate will be highly imaginative and well-informed about the social and technology trends affecting the creatio...
Red Associates
Red Associate seems to be an interesting company: ReD Associates is one of Europe's leading innovation agencies working with sophisticated user insights, product development and innovation strategy. ReD Associates is focused on generating top line growth for our clients through relevant innovation....
WiGLE.net: a submission-based catalog of wireless networks
WIGLE: WiGLE.net is a submission-based catalog of wireless networks. Submissions are not paired with actual people; rather name/password identities which people use to associate their data. It's basically a "gee isn't this neat" engine for learning about the spread of wireless computer usage. WiGLE...
Geneva's Flying Saucer
I live nearby this very intriguing architectural building: A very nice remnant of the nostalgia for a future yet to come. ...
Street Sudoku
Two days ago, I spotted a girl in Lausanne, Switzerland, solving a Sudoku on a street poster; It's actually an advertisement for a swiss game but some folks seem to like doing the Sudoku on much bigger dimensions than a newspaper format: I spotted this picture in Geneva, it's the second street-sudo...
A server on a mobile phone
After the server on a USB key, there is this project at Nokia of having a server running on a mobile phone (via). The motivation here is quite technology-driven: For quite some time it has been possible to access the Internet using mobile phones, although the role of the phone has strictly been tha...
Arm-worn device for service technicians
the abb mobile service technician is a project led Daniel fallman. Based on the findings of an ethnographic study at two vehicle manufacturing companies, we have designed and implemented computer support system for service technicians. The system is arm-worn as opposed to traditionally handheld. It...
Novo Infotainment Table
Via joystiq, this interesting gaming table: the Novo Infotainment Table. The table is actually 32" LCD touch screen, a built in Shuttle PC or an Xbox or PS2, a rotating controller/keyboard panel, 60s spy-movie stlye. It's then a multi-purpose table: I don't really like the keyboard version (I hate ...
Blogject front-end using the Xbox360 XML data feeds.
Trapper Markelz designed a nice exemplification of the blogject concept: he built a Blogject front-end using the Xbox360 XML data feeds. Here is how it looks like "I am a XBOX 360 and I can talk". So what is all this talk about Blogjects? While at eTech I had an idea to build a Blogject front-end u...