An art installation by Loris Gréaud called "Cognitive fooding laboratory": eating modified food (cresson saturated of anthocyanin pigments) may allow visitors to expand their nightvision skills... when food is meant to augment cognition... Loris Gréaud nous invite ensuite à améliorer notre acuit...
New blog about space/place/locative tech: smartspace
Found via Technorati: smartspace by Scott Smith of Social Technologies (an international futures research and consulting firm based in Washington, DC): Welcome to Smartspace, a new blog about annotated environments, intelligent infrastructure and digital landscapes--the merging of technology with t...
BookCrossing Zones
I am a great fan of the concept of bookcrossing, it really corresponds to an habit for me. Now what I find interesting is the notion of BookCrossing Zones. According to wikipedia: Official BookCrossing Zones, which are sometimes called OBCZs or OBZs are located in places like Starbucks coffee shops...
Toward a common RSS icon
I am not interested that much in web icons and usability but rss syndications icons are sometimes a bit too... different, as workbench points out: Considering the number of ways that web publishers show their readers they offer feeds, it's amazing we've gotten that many: In an effort to make the c...
Pet master electronic guide
I am always stunned by pet technology (that's why I like petistic), there are really incredible innovation in this field. Look at this Pet Master Electronic Pet Guide: Find out exactly what you need to know about your cat or dog, instantly—with the push of a button! Get emergency information—even ...
Reconfiguration of social, cognitive and spatial practices in cities due to technological innovations
After my post about the inevitable existence of electronic ghetto in cities (quoting Mike Davis and William Gibson), I had a discussion with Anne about how technologies (and hence interaction designers) are sometimes not aware of side-effects due to their creation, especially in terms of social, po...
Life on cell phone?
(Via emily) The Korea Times has a good piece about researchers at Samsung electronics who want to bring cell phones to life through the use of avatars that will have the ability to think, feel, evolve, and interact with users. The team, led by Prof. Kim Jong-hwan at the Korea Advanced Institute of ...
Slogging = sensor logging
In the slides of his presentation (.pdf, 11.6Mb, great document anyway), Mark Hansen describes the concept of "slogging": sensor logging, which is very similar to the blogject concept: Slogging: What would happen if sensing technology became as easy to use as a blog or a vlog? What would it mean ...
GPS/Wifi roboduck fleet for marine sensing and sampling
Roboduck is a project led by Gaurav S. Sukhatme. It's actually a fleet of robotic air boats which serve as a test bed for evaluating algorithms including bacterial navigation for marine sensing and adaptive sampling. There is a need to provide a platform for better monitoring and sampling in Marine...
Intentional affordances of objects
JOINT ATTENTION AND CULTURAL LEARNING IN HUMAN INFANCY by Tomasello, 1999. Early in development, as young infants grasp, suck, and manipulate objects, they learn something of the objects’ affordances for action (Gibson, 1979) (...) but the tools and artifacts of a culture have another dimension ...