Via Sensors Impact and proteinos, those amazing Chi Tiles by Eugene Low: tiles that change colour depending on the room temperature. tiles are very static subjects. the only change it goes through is degradation through wear and tear. how often do you find yourself staring at boring tiles either i...
Weblogs, data collection and tools I use
Yesterday I attended a presentation about dangers and opportunities fostered by weblogs (of course 'danger' is where the emphasis where). One of the most interesting presenter was certainly David Sadigh from IC Agency (internet marketing firm in Geneva) in the sense that his presentation achieved t...
Control your car with your cell phone
Via strange new products, this crazy application: a wireless access protocol (WAP) version of Guidepoint™ that: allows subscribers to track their vehicle, unlock doors, start the engine and honk the horn with a wireless device or cell phone. (...) The vehicle tracking service displays a map pinp...
Architecture and information visulization and Bloomberg's new building
Two good articles about architecture and information visulization and Bloomberg's new building in Metropolis: Brand Central Station (by Alexandra Lange) and By The Numbers (by Peter Hall). Bloomberg's new offices indeed weave information, technology, and space into a seamless display of interior ur...
Mizuko Ito on cell phone applications
I think I missed this interview of Mizuko Ito in Red Herring released on October 10th. Dr. Ito is a cultural anthropologist from University of Southern California/Keio University (Tokyo) who studies how the next generation uses new media (her publication can be downloaded on here blog). Here is her...
French book about innovation
"Objectif Innovation : Stratégies pour construire l'entreprise innovante" (Jean-Yves Prax, Bernard Buisson, Philippe Silberzahn) A great book (in french) about the concept of 'innovation' which summarizes the most important (and recent) theories about it (Christensen, Moore...). It's very well pr...
Tech Conference in Geneva!
Tonight, we unveil a new project: Lift, a conference about technology usage that will happen in Geneva on february 2-3nd, 2006. It's organized by Laurent plus others like myself. In two words: Lift is about sharing and expanding the ideas of technologies, how they impact our lives and organiza...
Artist Paul Cox Blog
I am a great fan of Paul Cox artistic work. His last project at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is very intriguing. What is great is that there is a blog about it, which summarizes the different steps of the project. The author's inspiration is then reflected into tons of posts with amazing pictures, ...
MMOG communities study
Cyril pointed me on this research project: Project Massive carried out at Carnegie Mellon University: Previously, Project Massive has investigated player communication and organization in PC based, Massively Multiplayer games. While this work continues, the inquiry has been expanded to address the ...
Nokia Game Summit
Thanks to Gamasutra, there is a good wrap up of the Nokia Game Summit. It's interesting to see what are their research avenue and what they think is relevant one of the event's key themes: the march towards a more ‘immersive' visual experience on the mobile platform. “People live in a 3D world in t...