Via the locative mailing.list: "N8Spel" a project by Just van den Broecke for the Waag Society. It's actually a GPS-based mobile drawing game for the Amsterdam Museum Night. Teams would go into the city where they compete on who would (geo)draw the most beautiful “8″ by walking with a GPS and a mob...
Blue Rotterdam by Florentijn Hofman
(via) An impressive arty project by Florentijn Hofman: Beukelsblue: The borough of Delfshaven, Rotterdam, asked me [Florentijn] o come up with a plan for a block of derelict buildings, which will eventually be demolished. The agreement with the neighbourhood is that the block will remain blue as lo...
IBM new analysis tool: blog analysis
ZDNET reports this interesting fact: IBM said it is developing an application to analyse how discussions on blogs and other Web sites are affecting a given corporation's image. It's called "Public Image Monitoring Solution" and it's based on IBM's text analytics and search software, WebSphere Infor...
A day in Zürich
I spent the day in Zürich for different things. I briefly attended Tweakfest 2005, an art/culture conference about creative potential of Zürich (a.k.a downtown Switzerland). It's interesting to see that after Richard Florida's take, lots of cities are jumping into the 'creative' bubble (i.e. being ...
A Tree Gaming Controller Unit
Via Gamasutra Esoteric Beat Clumn: This "lumberjacked" game controller is amazing!!! Lumber jacked! is a computer game that is played with trees. Using the 'Tree Gaming Controller Unit' the human player takes the role of a lumberjack while your tree friend can play the part of the super tree. You a...
New blog: ballpark
Just to make people aware of it, I also blog on ballpark.ch now, along with Laurent. It deals with innovation, internet strategies, tech usage, collaborative and social technologies. ...
Ubiquitous Computing and rapid prototyping
The last issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing is presenting the recent advances in applying rapid prototyping to ubiquitous systems development. The special issue is based on the assumption that because ubicomp scenarios often consist of different undeveloped components, a complete implementation migh...
A house out of a 747
The WSJ has an intriguing story (by Alex Frangos) about an architect who designed a house out of an cut-apart and junked 747 airplane. Her architect had an idea: Buy a junked 747 and cut it apart. Turn the wings into a roof, the nose into a meditation temple. Use the remaining scrap to build six mo...
WiFi surveillance tool: WiFi Watchdog
WiFi Watchdog is a server-based software that detects, monitors and secures 802.11-based wireless networks (WLANs). According to the website, it's meant to "enforce "No Wi-Fi" policies as well as integrate with any existing Wi-Fi equipment to stop the increasing number of security threats not addre...
Alternate Reality Games in Gamasutra
It's very refreshing to see that Gamasutra is now giving more room to alternate reality game in this review by Adrian Hon (the article is dated from May 9, 2005). The author beings by stating that the first ARG was the marketing material for the movie A.I. (2001), with a credit for a "Sentient Mach...