New projects of Fursr (the guys who did the painstation). Mr Punch is a very intriguing game: Disguised as a Punch and Judy Show, Mr. Punch emerges as a crossover between an early automata from the 30ties and a modern videogame: 2 players grab control over mechanical puppets and – by means of lever...
An horrible "Mind Molester" gizmo
A crazy device: "Mind Molester" (via) The "Mind Molester" is an instrument of creative electronic harassment. It is an electronic chirping device that can drive your victims nuts trying to figure out what it is and where it's at. You can drive someone crazy in their own house or disrupt an enti...
Measuring Situation Awareness in a Collaborative Game
It seems that ThoughtLink is working on a very similar project of ours. Together with the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), they conducted an experiment to measured the effect of different modes of communication and visualization on a distributed team's shared situational awareness. This project was...
A dark age of Innovation?
New Scientist has an intringuing piece about innovation, related to the fact that may we have reached a peak of innovation. It's controversial but the conclusion is based on interesting facts. Some excerpts below: according to a new analysis, this view couldn't be more wrong: far from being in tech...
Tabletop workspace territories
Territoriality in collaborative tabletop workspaces by Stacey D. Scott, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale and Kori M. Inkpen, Proceeding of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. Researchers seeking alternatives to traditional desktop computers have begun exploring the potential co...
Urinal innovation
A weird innovation: for people like me who always wondered why there is a fly in European urinals, here is the answer, thanks to Seth Goldin: pparently, the folks who run one of the big airports in Europe became famous because of a clever idea they installed in the airport men's room (click on pict...
Why Technorati is so slow
Why Technorati feels slow is a relevant piece by Stephen Baker In Business Week. Very interesting if you've ever wondered why it is so slow: In the last year, with the blogosphere doubling twice in size, Technorati has had to re-engineer its system. Originally, says Hertz, it dealt with all the dat...
Google Map Pedometer and Mobile Gmap
Yep now you can record distances traveled during a running or walking workout using this hack of Google maps: Gmaps pedometer. If you're not confident or really in the rush you can also use the Mobile Gmaps (a free software that displays Google Maps and Keyhole satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enable...
Signs of Artificial Life along the Seine in Paris
Carol-Ann Braun. "April in Paris: Signs of Artificial Life along the Seine," IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 14-18, July-September 2005. Abstract: We barely notice the scores of video cameras capturing our movements as we go about our business in the city. But what if every public space ...
Inflatable sculptures
I just ran across very intriguing inflatable sculptures, found here. This is connected to a project called 'Storker'. The STORKER PROJECT is a species propagation movement by STORKER seeking to incite select individuals from the public at large, perhaps you. If while passsing by one you feel strang...