Even though the title of the article sounds a bit weird, there are some interesting issues there: Best-kept secrets of the world's best companies. Especially the "best practices" in R&D, I found those two interesting: IDEO: the "tech box," a freezer-size chest of drawers in each of its seven offi...
Loki: Location-Based Internet Search & Navigation
Ted Morgan from Skyhook Wireless pointed me: Loki is a beta version of a new toolbar the integrates location in web searches and allows users to share and tag locations: Loki is the first application to combine the physical with the digital to make the Internet a truly personal and local exp...
The hello world of physical computing
I think Chris Heathcote got the point of the future Internet of things: a rabbit twisting its ears and playing the a-team theme tune is the hello world of physical computing. might referer to Nabaztag (which actually has new ears now). ...
What science does with sensors everywhere
This is actually the topic of this article (in Nature's last issue about 2020 - Future of Computing): Declan Butle (2006) 2020 computing: Everything, everywhere, Nature, 440, 402-405 In their current, mostly desktop, incarnation, computers used for science usually come into their own quite late in ...
Tamagotchi version 3
According to Wikipedia, here are the features of the new Tamagotchi: Tamagotchi Connection Version 3 (Also known as Version 3, V3, Ver. 3, VR3, or Tama V3) The third generation of the Tamagotchi Connection series was released at the end of January 2006. Like the Version 2, it borrows some features ...
What's like being a 'visionary in residence'
In the last issue of Metropolis, there is an interesting article by Bruce Sterling about his 2005 experience as a 'visionary in residence' (at the Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California). Some excerpts: Let me tell you what I learned as a visionary in art school. First: if people ca...
Bubble: new DVD game console
The Bubble is an interesting gaming platform produced by Bright Things PLC (ex-Eidos). It's a DVD games console that you connect wirelessly to your DVD player to allow kids to interact with characters from their favourite TV shows (actually it's a game controller). The website worldofbubble gives m...
A frog with an implanted webserver
I think I saw this project on Regine's blog: Experiments in Galvanism: Frog with Implanted Webserver by Garnet Hertz: Experiments in Galvanism is the culmination of studio and gallery experiments in which a miniature computer is implanted into the dead body of a frog specimen. Akin to Damien Hirst'...
msdm: mobile strategies of display and mediation.
msdm: a research-practice dedicated to mobile strategies of display and mediation. msdm projects explore media in context, including electronic tagging, locative media, games, bots, radio fm, para-architecture and urban screens, with an attention to collaborative experiments in free culture, and op...
The uniqueness capabilities of pervasive devices
In the paper I blogged about earlier, Interweaving Mobile Games with Everyday Life, there was this very interesting quote: Players also became aware of some technical features that we were only vaguely aware of ourselves. In one case, a player became aware—and angry about—the fact that his PDA’s 80...