Californian IFTF pal Alex Pang started a new blog about a very pertinent concept: The End of Cyberspace. His take is that cyberspace, as a metaphor of a virtual and digital world emerged from sci-fi culture, is now coming to an end because of recent developments: Why is cyberspace coming to an end?...
New micro-dwelling
The manual for micro-dwelling shows interesting new micro-dwelling development: MICRO DWELLINGS is a system for making low cost dwellings of variable sizes for any number of persons. It consists of movable housing modules that can form different configurations on land, on water and under water. T...
Gamepad ergonomics: Nintendo controller and 3 years old
This button makes you go up: three-year-olds and the Nintendo controller by Erik F. Strommen, Setareh Razavi and Lisa M. Medoff in Applied Ergonomics 1992, Vol. 23, No. 6, (pp. 409-413). Abstract: Forty three-year-old children used the Nintendo controller in a simple cursor-placement task, with two...
A mouse-phone or a phone-mouse
Via heaven blog, this curious mouse-phone or phone-mouse: This product is a combination of a mouse and a telephone that will enable you to use the mouse and the telephone at the same time. The 3D roller will ease your reading by screen scrolling. At the same time!!! This is so odd.. back to wired ...
Your room as your browser
"Your room as your browser" is the motto of a project led by Philips Research: Philips has developed a common language for describing experiences within an Ambient Intelligence environment: Physical Markup Language (PML). (...) An Ambient Intelligence system can interpret a description in PML in su...
Great pictures from a skateboard R&D facility
(via skate infusion)Yes skateboarding companies had Research and Development facilities! This weblog gives a great account of a visit at the Powell company in Santa Barbara. The pictures they took are impressive: This machine gives the shape: skateboard creation: The tour video is a must-see. ...
New commodore handheld
Via Gamasutra, this new handheld device capable of playing games by Commodore International showed at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Navigator Combo is an upgradable handheld device with GPS functions that also plays games, music and video files. The Combo runs on the Windows ...
Emotion-aware mobile music player
An intriguing notion: an Emotion-aware mobile music player described in a paper by andor Dornbush, Kevin Fisher, Kyle McKay, Alex Prikhodko, and Zary Segall at the soon-to-be International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems (2006) the notion of collecting human emotion and ac...
One month before LIFT
We're getting closer and closer to the LIFT Conference in Geneva, our event about new technologies and people! On February 2-3, 2006, this event will gather great thinkers and doers to discuss about understanding current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies. In this...
Handheld augmented reality: the Invisible Train
Found this on del.icio.us: The Invisible Train by Daniel Wagner, Thomas Pintaric, Florian Ledermann, Dieter Schmalstieg, a cool augmented reality game with a multi-user component: The Invisible Train is a mobile, collaborative multi-user Augmented Reality (AR) game, in which players control virtua...