Author: Julie Knight

  • 27AprChocolate is the key

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    Everyone needs to relax a bit from the computer. Let this sweet keyboard show the way …

    Sweet Keyboard

    Chocolate Keyboard by designer Michael Sholk


  • 27AprChocolate is the key

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    Everyone needs to relax a bit from the computer. Let this sweet keyboard show the way …

    Sweet Keyboard
    Chocolate Keyboard by designer Michael Sholk

  • 22AprA little bubble and a little LED

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    Bubble

    Tri-Color LED, Tilt sensors, 1.5″ diameter sphere

    Bubble Bobbles by James Clar are water-resistant floating globes each embedded with a tri-color LED. Tilt sensors are placed in each Bubble causing it to change colors depending on which direction it’s tilted. Used in multitudes Bubble Bobbles can be placed in a pool or lake, causing ripples of colors with each splash and wave.

    Bubble2

    -> Movie <-

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  • 22AprA little bubble and a little LED

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    Bubble
    Tri-Color LED, Tilt sensors, 1.5″ diameter sphere

    Bubble Bobbles by James Clar are water-resistant floating globes each embedded with a tri-color LED. Tilt sensors are placed in each Bubble causing it to change colors depending on which direction it’s tilted. Used in multitudes Bubble Bobbles can be placed in a pool or lake, causing ripples of colors with each splash and wave.

    Bubble2

    -> Movie <-

    Posted by Cati Vaucelle @ Architectradure
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  • 16AprYour email in the future

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    After Fuzzmail a program that allows to write a message that unfolds in time -with Fuzzmail you end up sending what you dynamically write instead of a flat/clean email!- we now have Time Machiner, the email time machine that sends an email in the future! It does not go beyond 2030 so you cannot go too crazy, but still it leaves you time to prepare some freaky surprises. Also one can imagine pre-sending the birthday wishes, so that you will never seem to have forgotten, see example below!

    Time Machine

    When the email is being sent, you receive this nice confirmation screen. The team has a sure sense of humor!

    Time Machine 2

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  • 15AprTalk at Simon Fraser University

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    SFU

    The Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, invites me to talk for the Anniversary Speaker Series: 3 Campuses, 3 Speakers, 3 Themes, 3 Important celebrating two significant milestones: 25 years as the Faculty of Business Administration and 40 years since the launch of Canada’s first Executive MBA.

    Theme Innovation

    When? May 2, 2008, 10:30am

    Where? Simon Fraser University Surrey Campus, Westminster Savings Credit Union Theatre, Room 2600.

    Sign up here! ($25, free for SFU students + Alumni)

    Talk summary Cati Vaucelle, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab will present two recent projects developed for the Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group focused on Gesture Object Interfaces.

    At the Media Lab, the future is lived, not imagined. In a world where radical technology advances are taken for granted, we design technology for people to create a better future.The Lab comprises rigorous research and graduate degree programs, where traditional disciplines get checked at the door. Future-obsessed product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces work side by side to tirelessly invent-and reinvent-how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology.

    On May 2nd, come and explore innovative ways to design seamless interfaces between people, digital animation, and physical environments. Discover “tangible bits” which give physical form to digital information and computation. Learn about user interfaces that employ physical objects, surfaces, and spaces as tangible embodiments of digital information exploiting the human senses of touch and kinesthesia and analyze ambient media as reflections of digital activity at the periphery of human awareness.

    See the report ->Here<-

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  • 15AprA new social network!

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    I love testing new social communities, as a way of seeing what features make such a network unique. I recently joined 3GB, the 1st Arabic social community network, and in it, you create a profile, smoothly upload a photo album, navigate through your friends albums within your profile, create a blog, join groups for discussions and so forth. What is unique so far is the possibility to chat within profiles, integrate your friends photo albums into your profile, and listen to a selection of music. The music player is great! The chat application is clean as it runs within the browser fast! It will be great to see this community grow.

    A new social network is an opportunity. As someone interested in the web, and where applications on the web are going, when you join a network with 300 people on it, with interesting features and sort of a unique balance between the different features that separate it from the big current social networks, you’re diving into the emerging trends and possibilities of the online social world.

    Also check my selection of social networks!

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  • 10AprGesture and shape define the state of an object

    Switch

    Switch by Radi Designers.

    Gesture and shape both change the reading and functioning of the object; to cut the power one needs to break the object to interrupt the wire continuity on which it is integrated. It is the shape of the switch that makes sense as much as the sensation of breaking. The gesture is reversible and the switch takes two shapes: straight or bent to define the states: open or close -the usual schematic representations.


  • 09AprDNA, this little monster

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    Following up on my post about the obsession for the future of human identification via DNA, interaction designers interrogate the influence of DNA analysis on dating. How will dating change when DNA analysis can reveal the presence of undesirable genes?

    Evidence

    Doll Illustrations by Abake

    Evidence Dolls, created by Fiona Raby, are hypothetical products sold in a fictional shopping mall called Bioland.

    The Dolls were commissioned by the Pompidou Centre for the D-Day exhibition in 2005. The project consists of one hundred specially designed dolls used to provoke discussion amongst a group of young single women about the impact of genetic technology on their lifestyle. The Dolls come in three versions based on penis size (small, medium and large). A black indelible marker allows women to note down interesting characteristics of their lover. Hair, toenail clippings, saliva, and sperm can be collected and stored in the penis drawer. Four single women told us about their lovers — past, present and imagined, and speculated on the implications of DNA on dating in the future.


  • 06AprHelvetica has gone wild

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    Helvetica Screen

    Can Helvetica drop? Someone had to imagine it. Dropclock does it via a motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy helvetica dropping into water in slow motion. Thank you fat-man-collective!

    Video

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