Via inhabitat: Farmadeliphication (fahr'muh'deli'fi'kay'shun), n. 1. The process of turning all of Philadelphia's vacant and abandoned lots into urban farms: The 'Farmadeliphication' of once decrepit buildings into farm structures advances fresh ways of seeing old structures as well as allowing for...
Parasitic Architecture
A bit different from Alain Bublex's work, "Parasitic Architecture" is an intriguing project by David Scott Taylor: ...
Pervasive gaming and everyday life
Interweaving Mobile Games with Everyday Life by Marek Bell, Matthew Chalmers, Louise Barkhuus, Malcolm Hall, Scott Sherwood, Paul Tennent, Barry Brown, Duncan Rowland, Steve Benford, Mauricio Capra, Alistair Hampshire. To appear in Proc. ACM CHI 2006, Montreal, 2006. An interesting evaluation of a ...
Wasp nest building simulator
Wasp nest building simulator by Sylvain Guérin: A simple simulator to implement stigmergic behavior A video is also there. More about it: Bonabeau, E., Guérin, S., Snyers, D., Kuntz, P., & Theraulaz, G. 2000. Three-dimensional architectures grown by simple "stigmergic" agents. BioSystems, 56: 13-...
Old meme from 2001: All Your Base Are Belong To Us
According to Wikipedia, All Your Base Are Belong To Us: "All your base are belong to us" (sometimes referred to as "All Your Base" and often abbreviated AYBABTU, AYBAB2U, or simply AYB) is a phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002. The text is taken from the opening found in the...
3D printing + RFID
Sherpa Design (a mechanical engineering services company specializing in design and product development, through 3D printing) and RFTrax have worked out this odd concept: Project/Experience: RFID security system for shipping containers enclosure design and development Working closely with the clien...
Eccky: a virtual baby raised using IM
via: eccky, "a multi-player concept that allows two people to create a virtual baby, add it to their MSN buddy list, and guide it through its childhood and teens". Eccky is the name of a game where two parents can make, name and raise a virtual child. An Eccky. Their Eccky will be added to their MS...
MASSIVE: The future of networked multiplayer games
MASSIVE: The future of networked multiplayer games is a conference to attend if you're around LA/Irvine on April 20th: MASSIVE will engage 25 speakers and approximately 80 registrants from industry and academia in a dialog about the future design, technical and cultural challenges presented by mass...
Some thoughts about Mogi Mogi
At Ubicomp2005, there was a workshop about pervasive games (the website seems to be down). An interesting analysis of the pervasive game Mogi Mogi has been presented by Benjamin Joffe (from the french company Newt Games). The results of the field study are quite pertinent. From his presentation, I ...
Interesting political debate in France over ipod
Read in the IHT: A bill under debate in the French National Assembly may require iPods to be able to play music purchased from competing Internet services, not just Apple Computer's own iTunes Music Store, and force changes in the business model that sparked the revolution in legal digital music do...