(via), Computer for Art is " a non-profit organization which aims to promote the re-use of redundant technology, such as computer/office equipment, through collecting and storing such equipment for use by artists in public exhibitions."For instance this: is turned in different pieces of art suchas...
2 examples of audio/music-based game controller
That's something I'm interested in (see here). I found two examples: Players of Organum: The Game navigate through a human voice box using their own voices as game controls. the Sonictroller whcih also allows the user to control a video game with sound That seems to be good setp! I am still expec...
Retro phones of the future
I am late on this but I like the idea: Pokia proposes interesting retro phones interface to be plugged into your bleeding edge cell phone! I find this interesting since mobile tech (as a subset of technology in general) is sometimes frightening for lots of users, here they offer a funny way to g...
The use of social software and activity theory
I really appreciate zengestrom's take about sociale software. He adresses the use of thos services. This question always bugged me. The starting point of his discussion is the fact that some people (like russell beattie are linking out of such services. the term 'social networking' makes little se...
Blisterent: an LBS company
Blisterent "is developing and publishing mobile location–based games and entertainment products to wireless carriers around the world." They have their own location application platform called LAP: The LAP provides mobile content developers with an efficient and simple way to deliver their products...
The bluetooth rifle
(via), the bluetooth rifle by USC student John Hering: John Hering, a student at the University of Southern California, has developed the BlueSniper rifle, a tool that looks like a big gun which can "attack" a wireless device from more than a mile away -- several times the 328-foot maximum range of...
And now... old devices like the first mobile telephone
Of course my favorite part concerned the devices, especially with regard to the design POV: how earlier designers thought about the affordances, the design, the forms, the colors... Here area few devices:Bell's phone: Adler's phone: the first mobile phone: The first Minitel (1983): The first Mat...
Watching different types of radio waves
There was also a spectrometer to see a concrete representation of radio waves depending on their wavelength (FM - TV - GSM 900 - DAB - GSM 1800 - UMTS): It reminded me this "Tuneable city" project where people could see a concrete representation of the radio waves in a certain are (here in the exhi...
A dosimeter guy called SAM
This dummy head is used to calculate dosimetry (according to wikipedia: the measurement of doses in matter and tissue from ionizing radiation); this head is called SAM (acronym of something I forgot). It's made up to measure the SAR = energy absorbed by a body receiving mobile phone emissions. This...
Yes it's called "Leaky Feeders"
The most interesting part of the exhibit is all the artifacts presented there. The point of this show is to explain to clarify the infrastructure of mobile telephony, explaining to people what are the 'backbones' and the functions of all the devices (from the phone mass to the cell phone as well as...