Why do I blog this? An interesting book by Marc Vallée about defensive space, covering anti-skateboard devices. Interestingly, this is the topic that led to the largest number of comments on my blog. I find it relevant to see the type of “solutions” presented here. It would be funny to document ho...
Working on a paper about the design space of gameful apps,...
Working on a paper about the design space of gameful apps, it’s relevant to get back to seminal papers such as “A Morphological Analysis of the Design Space of Input Devices” by Card et al., 1991. ...
"Media archaeology can be understood as a heterogeneous set of theories and methods that investigate..."
“Media archaeology can be understood as a heterogeneous set of theories and methods that investigate media history through its alternative roots, forgotten paths, neglected ideas and machines. It explicitly challenges the supposed newness of digital culture. Media archaeology gives new ideas to und...
Probably a crapject… found at Fort escroto.
Probably a crapject… found at Fort escroto. ...
Brain-Computer Interface (Muse): “head-bands are cool...
Brain-Computer Interface (Muse): “head-bands are cool again” ...
From James Auger’s PhD defense. This quote also sums up...
From James Auger’s PhD defense. This quote also sums up his perspective: Speculative design effectively facilitates the creation of high-resolution imaginaries of possible destinations - these can then be used to encourage contemplation and analysis on whether this is improved or not. Signific...
新しい言葉 (New Words) by Alex Dodge: A method for generating...
新しい言葉 (New Words) by Alex Dodge: A method for generating phonetically unique words from a corpus of existing words in the Japanese language. —resulting in words that are statistically similar to Japanese. ...
"“Farewell To The Feminine Hand” “It was the day before my daughter’s high school graduation and I..."
“ “Farewell To The Feminine Hand” “It was the day before my daughter’s high school graduation and I thought I’d treat her to a manicure at ___’s so she could pick up her summa cum laude diploma with pride. Imagine her mortification when the manicurist commented on her OUTSIZE THUMBS, and declared t...
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A patent for an “Internet refrigerator and operating...
A patent for an “Internet refrigerator and operating method thereof” by peeps at LG Electronics: The Internet refrigerator includes a modem for performing a data communication with remote communication devices through the Internet, a first control section for controlling constituent elements of...