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  • 30MayInteractive surfaces

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    Interaction with microsoft surface

    Microsoft Surface, a finger interactive table to organize digital media, will be available on the market in winter 2007.

    Videos.



    Microsfot surface table

    This very neat idea of interactive surface is in the research market for a long time now: for instance with Diamondtouch, Ali Mazalek’s tangible viewpoints and James Patten’ sensetable from 2000-2001. It is exciting the process of this research being revisted by giant companies for mass production. I wish they would have kept the tangible quality of objects to control digital data. Maybe Pattenstudio will take care of that part!

    Video of audiopad by James Patten and Ben Recht.


  • 30MayInteractive surfaces

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    Interaction with microsoft surface

    Microsoft Surface, a finger interactive table to organize digital media, will be available on the market in winter 2007.

    Videos.



    Microsfot surface table

    This very neat idea of interactive surface is in the research market for a long time now: for instance with Diamondtouch, Ali Mazalek’s tangible viewpoints and James Patten’ sensetable from 2000-2001. It is exciting the process of this research being revisted by giant companies for mass production. I wish they would have kept the tangible quality of objects to control digital data. Maybe Pattenstudio will take care of that part!

    Video of audiopad by James Patten and Ben Recht.


  • 31MayA spying robot

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    Presented in Liberation, a highchool in South Korea, Seoul, will adopt a new kind of robot, the OFRO to check on kids at school. Communicating with school supervisors via a video camera and a microphone, it can detect any suspicious activity. Thank you Olivier for the link!

    I now hope for a subversive robot, much cooler, with fancier behavior, created as a response to this very scaring surveillance attempt.


  • 31MayA spying robot

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    Presented in Liberation, a highchool in South Korea, Seoul, will adopt a new kind of robot, the OFRO to check on kids at school. Communicating with school supervisors via a video camera and a microphone, it can detect any suspicious activity. Thank you Olivier for the link!

    I now hope for a subversive robot, much cooler, with fancier behavior, created as a response to this very scaring surveillance attempt.


  • 02JunA translator between human gestures and machine functions

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    SmartRetina: a translator between human gestures and machine functions.

    SmartRetina is a lightfast gesture-tracking platform written in Macromedia Flash 8, utilizing its flash.geom. package, flash.display package, Video class, Camera class and their motion-tracking capabilities.

    Video of SmartRetina as a navigation tool.

    Based on this technology, the company created Mossalibra an interactive game installation, operated solely by intuitive human gestures. “While dancing to surrounding music, the user (represented in pixelated form as a pure gesture) can mimic a given set of gestures in order to gain points.”


  • 08Junwireless power transfer

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    In last few years, our society experienced a silent, but quite dramatic, revolution in terms of the number of autonomous electronic devices (e.g. laptops, palm pilots, digatal cameras, household robots, etc.) that we use in our everyday lives. Currently, most of these devices are powered by batteries, which need to be recharged very often.

    This fact motivated us to think whether there exist physical principles that could enable wireless powering of these and similar devices. Results of our research on the feasibility of using resonant objects, strongly coupled through the tails of their non-radiative modes, for mid-range (i.e. a few meters: e.g. within a room, or a factory pavillion) wireless power transfer applications seem to be quite encouraging.

    Research by Marin Soljai at MIT

    A recent article mentions his work on “how to wirelessly illuminate an unplugged light bulb from seven feet away” which reminds me of the beautiful wireless lightbulb of Jeff Lieberman.

  • 15JunYou need a brand?

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    A nice set of slides about branding a logo, a product or a company created by Neutronllc.

    More slides on slideshare.net

    The company also published a book The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design



    A funny graphic with cross cultural meaning the nail that sticks up is one brave nail


  • 26JunHungry stuffed animals

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    The Hungries by Dana Gordon is a family of plush monsters with an impressive appetite for RFID. Each Hungry has a different personality expressed with its own unique voice. It listens to the secrets whispered to its ear. When its arm is pulled, it plays them back in its own voice. When they are fed to one another, their voices are mixed in a burp-like way.


  • 26JunUndercover

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    I recently spent time with friends Jean-baptiste Labrune and Dana Gordon these past two days, and we had awesome research discussions about the future of HCI! Dana Gordon explained me her fascinating projects and I loved her Undercover blanket.

    The Undercover contains 24 wireless speakers and provides a special physical sound experience. The Undercover allows you to enjoy the vibrations of the speakers on your body and provides a private mobile soundscape.

    The blanket has an embedded array of small speakers that can receive a wireless audio signal via a Bluetooth connection. This audio signal can be beamed from any kind of audio device, such as mp3 player, television, computer, radio, etc. The volume controllers were designed in a way, which suits the blanket’s natural cuddling behaviour. The upper corners (A.K.A ‘the blanket’s ears’) control the volume – (pull the right one for higher volume and the left one for lower).


  • 27JunMultisensorial video?

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    Caution: Objects in this mirror may be closer than they appear!

    I work on getting closer and closer to the expression, and the content of the expression, through video, and this by interfacing capture, edition and projection. Sometimes, novels inspire you the most in what you do. I chose the following quote of Jean Baudrillard from his book America:

    Nostalgia born of the immensity of the Texan hills and the sierras of New Mexico: gliding down the freeway, smash hits on the Chrysler stereo, heat wave. Snapshots aren’t enough. We’d need the whole film of the trip in real time, including the unbearable heat and the music. We’d have to replay it all from end to end at home in a darkened room, rediscover the magic of the freeways and the distance and the ice-cold alcohol in the desert and the speed and live it all again on the video at home in real time, not simply for the pleasure of remembering but because the fascination of senseless repetition is already present in the abstraction of the journey. The unfolding of the desert is infinitely close to the timelessness of film… – Jean Baudrillard, America