Mobiluck, an interesting location-based application which offers the following services: Send messages for free and meet people with your mobile phone, Today, with MobiLuck you can already: Detect all nearby Bluetooth devices. Your cell phone rings or vibrates when it finds one. Send messages a...
Google and the networked economy
Red Herring latest piece about Google is an insightful explanation of how the company from Mountain View stay in touche with open-source projects. Google founders (...) wanted some way to support young geeks, and hey, maybe it could tie into open source at the same time. (...) Mr. DiBona, a vetera...
Course about pervasive computing and the socio-cognitive affordances of space
Tomorrow, I'll give a lecture about pervasive computing and the socio-cognitive affordances of space, which is my research topic. It's the second time I do this talk (the first time was last year) and now that I am reshuffling the presentation, what struck me is that nothing really changed in one y...
Giger's Alien should be removed from the outside of his museum
I just saw that Giger's Alien model must be removed from the outside of a museum of his work in Gruyère, Switzerland (in Ananova): Councillors in Gruyeres, Switzerland, decided the mucus-dripping monster was not a good advert for the tourist town's image. Local artist H R Giger, who designed the al...
ITU report about the Internet of Things
The ITU (International Telecommunication Union, this big building in my neighbourhood) is eventually releasing a report about the so-called Internet of Things: The report takes a look at the next step in "always on" communications, in which new technologies like RFID and smart computing promise a w...
Skype-enabled WiFi phone
At last: news3yen reports on this interesting new gizmo: a Skype-enabled WiFi phone by Accton Technology (from Taiwan) The new unit enables a talk time of up to four hours with a stand-by-time of up to 20 hours and is likely to be initially priced at over US$150 in the retail market, according to ...
Shoot me if you can: korean location-based game
Via cscout, this cool location-based game from Korea: Shoot Me If You Can (Taeyoon Choi): Shoot me if you can is an urban game inspired by first person shooting online video game. Replace gun with fun, and shoot the opponent team with a cellular phone equipped with a digital camera. Participants; s...
Girl made, girl approved
An interesting article in Business Week about a design company called 3iYing, new design and marketing firm which does girl-market insights (founded by Heidi Dangelmaier). Dangelmaier's young team has come up with radical ideas on how to design and sell everything from condoms and lingerie to food....
Special issue of Journal of CSCW about “Settings for Collaboration: The Role of Place”
A relevant call for paper: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Journal Special Issue “Settings for Collaboration: The Role of Place” Co-edited by Luigina Ciolfi, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Liam Bannon Background Existing Recent work in HCI, CSCW and –more recently- interaction design has begun to cr...
The weirdest research lab structure
(via), FLIP seems to be the world's weirdest laboratory: The lab starts off as a regular ship but when it reaches its destination it 'flips' so that most of the ship sinks leaving the end of the ship standing above the water. Once flipped walls become floors and ceilings and whilst some furniture r...