Sun’s path June to December Via Tom Armitage.
About Timo
Negotiating futures. Design fiction
Swiss Design Network Conference 2010: Designers see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of alternative political, [...]
6 April 2010
Proximity payments
YouTube – The new PayPal iPhone app seems to use the Bump API to match up two physical gestures and make a payment. (I even like their tacky faux-anthropology video). And Square has just announced their payment app for the iPad.
6 April 2010
CCD and computational photography
A few links on imaging and computation: I’ve concluded that the promise of RFID was eclipsed by another technology out there that’s poised to become more and more disruptive, not only to RFID, but to a host of technologies, and that’s the CCD. from CCD by Joe Gregorio. Via BERG. Cameras might allow a photographer [...]
18 March 2010
Practising tomorrows
It takes ubiquitous computing as a significant case study because the future orientation practised in ubiquitous computing research and development is emblematic of the perpetual technological forecasting in which humanity engages. “Practising tomorrows? Ubiquitous computing and the politics of anticipation” a PhD by Sam Kinsley. via Anne
2 March 2010
The Films of Charles & Ray Eames
“While Charles & Ray were frequently contracted by corporations like Polaroid, Westinghouse, and IBM, they never made films on demand. Nearly all their films represent a symbiotic relationship between the artist and the client, and they only made films when there was genuine interest. Witness Westinghouse ABC (1965), which is essentially a montage of the [...]
1 March 2010
3D secret – hidden pictures
Beautiful new exploratory game for the Nintendo DS, that uses the front-facing camera and face tracking to calculate a perspective that renders like a window on a new world. DSi「立体かくし絵 アッタコレダ. Via BERG
27 February 2010
Denisa Kera & Jimmy Loizeau
Denisa Kera & Jimmy Loizeau: 18:46 in The Futurity Long Conversation.
18 February 2010
Augmented (hyper)Reality
Augmented (hyper)Reality by Keiichi Matsuda The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it. A film [...]
9 February 2010
Augmentia
Anselm lays out the emerging issues with Augmented Reality (AR). In doing so he relates it to a whole host of known and unknown problems associated with ubiquitous computing, semantic publishing and data platforms. Below are some clippings of bits that seem particularly insightful: It puts own embodiment at risk. And whomsoever can mitigate that [...]
2 February 2010
Things
Things I’ve noticed today: Lovely new exploratory homepage at Thinglink. There is clearly a very well curated user-base at SVPPLY creating a continuous navigation of want. Related: Social networks for things, Thingd, Allconsuming.
2 February 2010
Crossing Borders
A visualization of private spaces in public photography. A design probe on digital mannerism by choy ka fai Via BERG.
2 February 2010
Telling stories with interfaces
“But where does it go from here? Is this really just a micro-genre best suited to ads for internet companies? Or does the fact that we spend so much time on this stage our selves mean that it really can be the venue for more (and more kinds of) storytelling? via Telling stories with interfaces [...]
25 January 2010
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