Switching this TV from 2D to 3D needs some explanations that a person instantiated with this post-it notes. (Seen at CERN last week). ...
Fingerprints on touch interface as interaction pattern
An interesting project by Design Language: "Because the primary input method of the iPad is a single piece of multitouch glass, developers have incredible flexibility to design unique user interfaces. It’s hard to appreciate the variety of UIs though, since turning the screen off removes virtuall...
Saskia Sassen: Talking back to your intelligent city
Much of what is put under the “smart city” umbrella has actually been around for a decade or more. Bit by bit (or byte by byte), we’ve been retrofitting various city systems and networks with devices that count, measure, record, and connect. (...) The current euphoria, however, centers around a m...
We just had a great lift11, more about it later
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Henk Hofstra's Blue Road as a city waterway
Last April, Henk Hofstra created an "urban river" in Drachten, Holland. The Blue Road installation is an example of what mind-blowing urban public art can be. Featuring 1000 metres of road painted blue and the phrase "Water is Life" written in eight-metre-high letters across it, the Blue Road...
Sifteo: networked cubes as a game system
Sifteo cubes are a true game system. Each cube is equipped with a full color display, a set of sensing technologies, and wireless communication. During gameplay, the cubes communicate with a nearby computer via the USB wireless link. Manage your games and buy new ones using the Sifteo applicatio...
An impressive series of Virtual reality helmet drawings found in the US patents:
Virtual reality interactivity system and method by Justin R. Romo (1991): Helmet for providing virtual reality environments by Richard Holmes (1993) Optical system for virtual reality helmet by Ken Hunter (1994): Virtual reality visual display helmet by Bruce R. Bassett et al. (1996): Helmet mou...
Proximeter: an ambient social navigation instrument (H. Holtzman + J. Kestner)
"Would you know if a dear, but seldom seen, friend happened to be on the same train as you? The proximeter is both an agent that tracks the past and future proximity of one’s social cloud, and an instrument that charts this in an ambient display. By reading existing calendar and social network...
ThingM Project Feature: Books with Personality
The intent of this project was to create animism in an object, with the use of programmable BlinkM® LEDs. We were interested in books because, as a set of objects, they still had a degree of individuality which we wanted to bring forward. By accentuating the character that the titles already exu...
Brixton High Street: urban design for robots
An interesting project by Kibwe X-Kalibre Tavares: "These are a collection of images of what Brixton could be like if it were to develop as a disregarded area inhabited by London's new robot workforce. Built and design to do all the task humans no longer want to do. The population of brixton has r...