Just came out with this small window that should be put on the ctachbob interface. It provides users with: player's name, time played, proxmity sensor, clear button (to clean the screen from the annotations) and refresh button (to get the new space positions). ...
[Research] CatchBob ToDo List
Here is the todo list for CatchBob!:- catchbob tablet pc interface: design of a proper interface with whiteboard (to write comments) and a zone with: logo, buttons (refresh), player name, time spent. - annotation sent in real time + one color per player - replay tool: should show the annotatiosn (e...
[TheWorld] RIP John Peel
John Peel is dead. Just a quick thought to the guy who made me appreciate the real potential of Napalm Death. As for me, this was the basis that leads me to some other music world like dub (yes napalm death and then scorn and then dub syndicate...) or electro-hip hop (napalm death to godflesh to te...
[Research] Science Fiction/Science research group
There seems to be a work group about science fiction, science and philosophy at the Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST), and the ENS (a big and renowned french school). The website is in french.Not very common in France where science fiction is often conside...
[TheWorld] Correlation between cool cities and blogs
Via smart mobs, this news: Cities identified as "cool" or creative by Richard Florida have more bloggers, according to Rob Goodspeed's analysis. These cities also have robust local online communities like Craigslist and Upcoming Not really suprising but it's nice to read a study about it (here is t...
[Space and Place] Moving forward bookcrossing
A new trend after bookcrossing (releasing books into the "wild" to be found by other people, often strangers) and geocaching : leaving unique coins for other people at interesting locations. Over 1,000 coins have been distributed since April of 2000 at various sites in the United States, Canada (Br...
[Locative Media] Norwgegian Lab about mobile computing
re-public is a project that deals with humanistic perspectives on emerging digital communication forms & expressions & their information systems. They have an interesting project about mobile gaming. What are the dramaturgical and mediational features of commercial mobile games? Do location sensiti...
[Locative Media] Is this street computing?
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[Weird] Fun with microwave oven
Via the amazing hack a day, a good web resource about things you could do with a microwave oven is provided here. Some examples (safe/unsafe experiment as they say!): Exploding Egg/Bubbling soap/Flash Boiling Experiment/Sparking CD/Putting Household globes in a microwave oven/Fluorescent tube in a ...
[Research] A tool to analyse activity: actogram
This afternoon, I tried to browse a bit in the manual of a very smart tool: Actogram (in french). It provides a good way to analyse videos, annotate and categorize patterns. Nice visualizations could also be computed. It really seems promising. The only drawback I see is that there are no MAC OS X ...