A cool compilation of Thomas Lélu's work on this booklet for parisian trendy boutique Colette (careful it's a big pdf): ...
The first web server machine
Just found this on Roger Cailliau's webpage, which seems to be a NeXT computer: This early CERN browser is also cute: ...
Proximity Lab: the implications of physical proximity in social communication
Via Timo's excellent del.icio.us, Proximity Lab is an interesting participatory installation and experimental interface platform. It's meant to visualize relationships between users and mediated spaces. Built on the premise that physical proximity is a basic unit of social communication, this study...
Toys trends
The Christian Science Monitor has a good piece about adult technology mimicked by toy manufacturers. Some excerpts I found relevant: This Christmas, tech-peddlers are turning their gaze toward kids, with new lines of grown-up gadgets built for tiny hands.(...) "There's a shift in need in terms of w...
Google 8bits maps
It seems that some folks came up an 8 bits version of the google maps: google 8-bits maps: According to aeropause: Google 8 bit maps has taken some of the old maps from the first Sim City game on the SNES and introduced Googles map search. There's no pages to go to really. It's just something to l...
Update on LIFT conference in Geneva
Now we're in the tuning phase of LIFT, this tech conference I co-organize with pals like ballpark.ch. We managed to get an interesting european figure: Thomas Sevcik, a guy who defines himself as a "corporate anthropologist". His company is called Arthesia. Here is how he desrcibes what he does: As...
Article in GeoConnexion
Our article "When location means more than location" (Nicolas Nova, Fabien Girardin and Pierre Dillenbourg) has been published in the november issues of european magazine geoconnexion. It actually shows how automating location-awareness in mobile collaboration can be ineffective. Registration requi...
An home-made Katamari
Katamari fans would be delighted to check this home-made Katamari, carried out by Harvey Cartel: There is also this cake for hardcore fans. ...
Extending the CSCW boundaries to games
One of the most interesting journal paper I've read for months is this Moving with the Times: IT Research and the Boundaries of CSCW by Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden and Steve Benford, in Journal of CSCW, Issue: Volume 14, Number 3 (June 2005), pp. 217 - 251. The authors advocates for extending the bou...
Mascarillons: flying swarm intelligence for scientific, architectural and artistic research
Patrick pointed me on this cool project: Mascarillons, carried out - partly - at our school. Their tagline is very appealing: "Flying swarm intelligence for scientific, architectural and artistic research" and those flying cubes with an exo-skeleton all around them are terrific! They fly/float in t...