Various sensors worn on different body parts. Multiple tracking systems, different data produced. ...
Weekly digital lexicon #2
Zykluserkennungssoftware, die: German word "drive cycle recognition" software, a term used in a comment seen on Spiegel Online... that refers to software used to pass pollution tests (🚗💨)… modified by VW (so that they work only during tests).AI trainer : a new job profile that consists in supervisi...
Hunting for urban electricity
Seen in Paris few weeks ago, a private car using the Autolib infrastructure to power up its batteries.Why do I blog this? The need to recharge electrical objects – ranging from smartphones to cars – is more and more prevalent... and lead to such kind of behavior... reminding me of people l...
Design fiction, "anticipatory ethnography" and "ethnographies of the possible"
My interest in design fiction has always been related to my ethnographic practice (see for instance this piece about it) which is why I find it interesting to run into these two notions :"Ethnographies of the possible", coined by Joachim Halse (2013):"are a way of materializing ideas, concerns...
Weekly digital lexicon #1
(I used to run a daily idiom thing on twitter few years ago, never had the time to continue, but I guess a weekly lexicon is easier to maintain)Speakularity (spotted on Nautilus) : a word proposed by journalist Matt Thompson and that corresponds to the transition between a society in which "the def...
Cale en bois
Paris, 12 septembre 2015. La porte massive de l'entrée du Palais de Tokyo est retenue par cette cale, dont la localisation est doublement inscrite sur l'objet. Pas de méprise possible. Le flot de personnes entrant est énorme mais la cale tient bon, malgré la pluie. ...
Signage for invisible UI
Why do I blog this? Seen in the Arlanda Express in Stockholm this week, this intriguing signage is meant for an invisible interface, the (standard) automatic door which always leads perplexed user to wonder how to open it. Although I like the icons here, I had to help two persons ...
Wearable computing
The kind of wearable computing you find at the market in Geneva. It's been a while these sound-activated t-shirts exist and I find it fascinating to see them around in 2015. Future mundane at its best here. ...
On Cuban repair cultures
Here’s a list of services offered in an AC-intense mobile phone repair shop in Trinidad (Cuba): "desbloqueo decodificatión y liberación de celulares, código de usuario, cambio de idioma, cambio de frecuencia, reparación de software (flasheo), reparación de celulares Chinos, reparaciones generales d...
Some smartphone evolution diagrams
Two visualizations (among many others) from unknown authors. This two-pages document is from a magazine called EPOCA: A simple series with some design parameters presented with icons from 3oneseven: The next one is made by Bogdan Răuţă for usell.c...