Chris pointed me on this funny/impressive Aibo roboblog that can blog and upload photos in the form of an 'Aibo Diary': Hello, I am Manuel, owner of Pedro, a Sony Aibo ERS-7M3/W. This is one of two companion blogs to Pedro's Aibo Roblog #1. Here, you can read Pedro's Diary, going back to Nov. 9, 20...
CaffeMug: a tangible interface for regulating caffeine consumption
Previously, we had the mediacup designed by TeCo that I blogged about last year: "an ordinary coffee cup augmented with sensing, processing and communication capabilities (integrated in the cup's bottom), to collect and communicate general context information in a given environment.": Now there is ...
Amnesty International and Web2.0
One of the project we selected for LIFT is carried out by Amnesty International and is called "web2.0 mashups and human rights". Internet strategists from Amnesty International will present project proposals based on web2.0 principles. The basic idea is innovation in assembly, using RSS to mashup ...
Symphony-Q: A Support System for Learning Music through Collaboration
Symphony-Q: A Support System for Learning Music through Collaboration by Kusunoki, F., Sugimoto, M., Hashizume, H presented at the CSCL Conference 2002 in Boulder. This system integrates a sensing board and a computer, and is used for collaborative learning in a face-to-face setting. One of the aim...
Renzo Piano's conception of space
The Guardian recently featured a nice article about italian architect Renzo Piano. I was not so interested by his take on french's so-called riot (even though his take about it is relevant: "The peripheries are the cities that will be. Or not. Or will never be"), rather his thoughts about space and...
CatchBob replay tool
Fabrice is moving forward in the development of the new CatchBob! replay tool. Here are some snapshots of the prototype: The project consists in developing a tool to replay sessions of interactions with a mobile game called CatchBob!. This game is an experimental platform in the form of a collabora...
Space, cognition and collaborative work
As an echo to Renzo Piano's quotes I blogged this morning, I read an insightful paper entitled "Understanding complex cognitive systems: the role of space in the organisation of collaborative work. " by Spinelli, G., Perry, M., O'Hara, K. in Cognition Technology and Work, Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 11...
Positioning system through sidewalk pattern recognition
Via networked_performance, and amazing positioning system that uses sidewalk pattern recognition (by Jason Kaufman and James Sears from Gumspots): GSPS: GumSpots™ Positioning System--by Jason Kaufman and James Sears--is a pattern recognition technology which can be used for a variety of location aw...
Some bubble gum machines
This is totally useless but I found some bubblegum removal machines (the one on the left is by absorbentonline, the one on the right is by Daimer): Bubble-gum related technology is a curious domain (you can also check this bubble gum molder or of course wrapping machines). Why do I blog this? this...
Trip Hawkins about mobile games
Via Stowe Boyd, this article in USA Today about the social side of video games. It's actually about Trips Hawkin's new company Digital Chocolate. Hawkins started to feel that something about video games was lacking. (...) And that's connection and community. People want to go to Super Bowl parties ...