Ali Mazalek's interactive table is nice: tviews1 and tviews2. Made at Media Fabrics Group (MIT Media Laboratory) TViews is an integrated display and interaction platform designed for collaborative and social exploration of multimedia applications in the home or classroom environment. It can support...
After NFC, there is RedTacton: sending data over the surface of the skin
NFC (Near Field Communication) was already a protocol for very close communication: It enables the user to exchange all kinds of information, in security, simply by bringing two devices close together. Its short-range interaction over a few centimeters greatly simplifies the whole issue of identifi...
RFID tag implanted in one\'s hand
Some crazy folk implanted a RFID chip in his hand as depicted in this Flickr picture: Here is explained the point of this. FAQ (frequently asked questions) Q: can't they track you?! A: no. the read range is only 2 inches max. even with a high powered reader, the chip itself does not have the capabi...
Street cleaning vehicles Flickr group
There is now a Flickr group devoted to street cleaning vehicles. Please hop in! It's absolutely unrelated to our work, we just targeted lomo-users, urban drifters, C-level excutives, extreme-ironers, turbo-golfers... that means everybody. ...
Gamespace and architecture: \"golf holes in playgrounds\"
Alex Wiltshire's take on gamespaces in ICON is very interesting. Here are some excerpts (I put some emphasis on parts I found relevant): The aim of every gamespace is to provide for and enhance gameplay with engaging and believable environments. The design must take into account how players will us...
Motivation and mobile gaming
A submitted paper for Digra 2005 (I think they made a mistake and the system is badly protected, we should not be allowed to access to submission):User Experience in Designing Mobile Multiplayer Games by Anu Kankainen. The authors, as a user experience practioners, explains how motivation relates t...
Stamkey: giving virtual real-estate a physical presence
Stamkey is a pc/mobile application developed by Sachihata. A tag embeds personal information into a camera-phone readable format that can be imported into mobile phones. As I don't read japanese, I rely on Josh Rubin's blog for the game comcept explanation: The Stamkey is a stamp that you open up a...
Wrapped emptyness
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About collaborative cartography
(via) New Scientist has a very pertinent article about map hackers (like Jo Walsh who use GPS to build their own maps. ARMED with a Global Positioning System receiver and a pair of itchy feet, Jo Walsh walks a different route around town each week. She is slowly but steadily building a digital map ...
A flickr for maps?
Peter Dreyer in Future Now advocates for a flickr-like website for personal maps. Imagine if we all gave up some of our right to privacy and produced and shared dynamical private maps. Not just maps of the local neighbourhood, but maps containing information about when we had been where. Pretty str...