Stunning project by Nicolas Moulins: Vider Paris (Empty Paris): "I worked on Vider Paris in a very rational way, as if I was part of a public engineering firm. I removed all traces of life, I dismantled the urban furniture and kept the architecture. It is a fiction without narration. I do not tell ...
A crop circle containing a space invader
(via) Nice project found here, a circle containing a 'retro space invader' of standing crop. ...
Corporate use of RSS
I thought the Red Herring blogs were dead but it's not the case. They have a pretty good piece about how RSS goes corporate. It's mostly about hy information overload and spam leads enterprises to use RSS. Some excerpts here: Until the last year, RSS was nearly impenetrable for all but the earliest...
Groundscrapers and Subscrapers
Just came across those 2 concepts: Groundscrapers and Subscrapers. It actually the title of a book: "Groundscrapers + Subscrapers of Hamzah & Yeang " (Ivor Richards) Ken Yeang has made his reputation building the bio-climatically considered skyscraper; more recently he has been discovering...
Sony Revolution video
For people unaware of it, there is now this strikingly stunning video of the sony revolution. Damned good interaction based on the use of tiles. Technorati Tags: hci, interface, tangible interaction ...
DoCoMo's ways to increase its revenues = :(
In last week issue of Business Week, there was an interesting interview of NTT DoCoMo's CEO Masao Nakamura. The interview reflects the troubles they have to get DoCoMo sales back on track and how to get revenues growing again: Q: Those measures might stabilize the situation, but how do you get reve...
Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer-Human Interaction (Tai-Chi)
Today I had lunch with Alain Guisan/Crevoisier, artistic director of art company b-polar and Myiuki Warabiushi his girlfriend, a japanese dancer. What he does in his art company seems really appealing, I will certainly visit their workspace. Besides, Alain is working on a European project: Tangible...
Employees closer to the products their companies make
Metropolis has a good column by Susan S. Szenasy about a new trend today: the new workplace brings employees closer to the products their companies make. At first glance the corporate cultures, as well as the products, of Boeing and BMW seem worlds apart both geographically and philosophically. But...
Augmented reality for poultry trimmers
Interestingly, poultry trimmer can now use augmented reality as explained in this food news Currently, poultry processors use human screeners to inspect the carcasses. The screeners communicate instructions to trimmers using gestures when they find a bird with undesirable parts. Now researchers at ...
Pocket fisherman
Yes it's summertime, so I can put here plenty of crazy stuff (actually not more than usual I think), I just ran across those very intriguing these "pocket fisherman" (found here): ...