Publications, installations, presentations & workshop papers Books and thesis Bleecker, J & Nova, N. (2009). A synchronicity: design fictions for asynchronous urban computing. Situated Technologies: NY. Nova, N.. (2009) Les Médias géolocalisés: comprendre les nouveaux paysages numériques. FYP Editi...
Conway's Game of Life LED tank top
An interesting tank top for people who are both into AI and flashy dressers like Mauro: LED tank top by Leah Buechley: 84 LEDs, a microcontroller and battery were sewn onto a tank top with conductive thread to create a wearable LED matrix display. In the movie the shirt is initialized with a gl...
A digital parrot
Good stuff by Crispin Jones: digiparrot, a cool project for the Japanese company Elekit. The digiParrot responds to whistled tunes - it listens to the tune (it's eye flashes when it recognises a note) and replays the whistle in it's own particular way. You can view it in action in the movies below,...
Re-usable bird diapers
It seems that birds have diapers! FlightSuits!™ Cleverly disguised, Soft, Stretchy, Reusable pet bird diapers! Allows feathered friends out of cages both in & out of the house - Worry-free from embarrassing accidents (poop) or dangerous fly-aways. Easy on & off! Great for travel! Breathable, easy c...
XXIst century institutions
Browsing improbable websites, I found this interesting quote (there): « My ideal XXIst century institution would appear less like an “institution” as such, than as a constantly evolving and flexible organism, or a network connecting people on a “global” mode, people who have ideas and people who ac...
Field Works: landscape + activity visualizations
Currently close to my place in Geneva, there is an interesting art exhibition by MASAKI FUJIHATA called "Field Works" (at the Centre Saint Gervais). It happens to be close to locative media arty concepts: Masaki Fujihata has worked for some fifteen years on new forms of visualizing knowledge, spac...
Sound vehicle by Peter Keene
I like this 'communicating vehicle' by Peter Keene and Sophie Piet.So: the public can participate through the use of 2 self-guided vehicles that can communicate. I found this device nice ;) « Paysage sonore » de Peter Keene et Sophie Piet.So Circuit interactif , performance collective (créatio...
PSP to do funny things (+see under clothes)
The PSP factory, a french place/group who do/link stuff about PSPs, have an intersting gallery of people doing crazy thing with PSPs: Why do I blog this? The picture depicting the usage of a PSP to see what's under the clothes of people is of particular interest (see this one ot that one). Persona...
Situation-awareness between drivers of ground surface vehicules in airports
I met people from Intuilab here in Toulouse who are working on a European project called Airnet about 'Airport Network for Mobiles, Surveillance and Alerting'. The relevant point for my research here is the tool they developed: IntuiKit is a cross platform development environment (Linux, Windows, ...
Printing turtle paths in a tangible 3D form
Turtle path printer is a cool application for printing turtle paths in a tangible three-dimensional form. It's a project conducted at the Craft technology group (University of Colorado, Boulder). "Turtle Path Printer" is an application in development. The basic idea behind the system is that users ...