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...
Blogging experiment
I am currently participating to an experiment/ergo-ethnological study for a big telephone company in France. I am in Paris at la cité des sciences et de l'industrie. I attented the exhibit about mobile telephony which is an interesting account of how radiotelephony evolved from the beginning to now...
Mobile games and innovation
An interesting account in The Guardian about mobile games: There's a palpable feeling that mobile games are about to go big. Established publishers such as THQ are creating mobile divisions (...) Mobile phone gaming has yet to deliver a killer application. And before it does, the hurdles preventing...
14:59
Nice new concept from the urban dictionnary:14:59: It comes from the "15 minutes of fame" catchphrase coined by Andy Warhol. A celebrity that is 14:59 is on the cusp of losing their relevance and falling out of fame. "Madonna's attempts to become a children's writer is a sure sign that she has gone...
Nice conference at EPFL to attend
"Democratizing Innovation" by Professor Eric von Hippel (MIT)The discussion will be introduced by Professor Christopher Tucci (EPFL) Where: ODYSSEA Building, EPFL When: May 2, from 17:00 to 18:30 (with reception to follow) Eric von Hippel is Professor and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship...
Trip in Paris
I'll be in Paris till Friday, meeting some people, trying some mobile applications and giving some talks at R&D labs. ...
A new journal about video game research
This seems to be brand new: Games & Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media: Games & Culture is a new, quarterly international journal (first issue due March 2006) that aims to publish innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within the context of interactive media. The...
A compelling fingerprint maze
A very nice and calm project by David Lu, Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine: Fingerprint maze. The point of this installation is to let one wander through a 3D labyrinth made from one's own scanned fingerprint. They use this hand crafted fingerprint scanner: This is how it works: The scanned fing...
Experimental Ethnography with Urban Tapestries
A nice paper about the Urban Tapestries project: Urban Tapestries: Experimental Ethnography, Technological Identities and Place, an LSE Electronic Working Paper by Roger Silverstone and Zoetanya Sujon. Urban Tapestries provides a mobile location-based platform to connect people with the places they...
Oroboro: a collaborative music controller
Via reg:exp, Oroboro by Björn Hartmann and Jennifer Carlile is: OROBORO is a novel collaborative controller which focuses on musical performance as social experience by exploring synchronized actions of two musicians operating a single instrument. Each performer uses two paddle mechanisms – one fo...