Two things I saw at Notcon 04 and got excited about.
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Timo Arnall is a designer working with interactive products and media. Timo leads an international research project on mobile technology, collaborates on interaction design work and lectures in design, physical computing and design methodology. More...
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Recent links
- Voice Search: New Sounds in the City
- "It ushers in a whole new way of projecting to people in proximity our aspirations and intent whether it's "Porsche car rental LAX", "yoga retreat in Hokkaido" or "Nike 2010's"."
- SNIFtag
- "If you ever longed for a way to monitor your dog's social life, map out his buddy network, and sense who its true friends are, you might have been waiting for SNIF"
- The sickening secret of Mirror's Edge
- "When you run, you see your hands pumping up and down in front of you. When you jump, your feet briefly jut up into eyeshot — precisely as they do when you're vaulting over a hurdle in real life. And when you tuck down into a somersault, you're looking at your thighs as the world spins around you. What's more, the Mirror's Edge world feels tactile and graspable."
- Momentum
- "Like a Survival game (though not necessarily a survival horror), Mirror’s Edge is often a game of conservation of resources. But it’s not ammo, or open space that is the resource in short supply. It’s momentum."
- Nintendo DSi hands-on
- "Nintendo's mission is to take advantage of improving cheaper technology to create reasonable and affordable entertainment."
- User Experience Design for Ubiquitous Computing
- By Mike Kuniavsky "I think 2005 was the year we began living in the world of commonplace ubiquitous computing devices."
- Battery-less remote control
- "A module that will enable a remote control unit to employ passive RFID technology to operate televisions, DVD players and other electronic devices."
- Geode
- "Future versions of Firefox plan on supporting the new W3C Geolocation Specification, which adds the native ability for Web sites to request, and you to optionally grant access to, your location."
- Resistance is futile
- "We examine the collective imagining of ubiquitous computing by bringing it into alignment with a related phenomenon, science fiction, in particular as imagined by a series of shows that form part of the cultural backdrop for many members of the research community"
- Daytum
- "Daytum is a home for collecting and communicating your daily data. begin tracking anything you can count and display the results immediately... or just look around and see what other members are recording."
- Pixar on management
- "Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the capability to recover when failures occur."
- Swinxs
- "Swinxs is a high-tech games console, sustainably designed for active games you can play inside or outdoors. The unique XS-wristband gives you access to a new world to play games, listen to music, experience exciting adventures and make fantasies reality."
- Near Field Communications is Amazing!
- " The data is still transferred via Bluetooth, but the pairing is done by actually touching the devices together. At first it seems like a step backwards, I know, but when you see it happen in front of your eyes, quick as anything, an ah-ha moment happens, trust me."
- Overheard at the Internet-of-Things symposium
- "Aluminum provides lightness and springiness. Information processing provides behavior."
- Here comes EVERYTHING!
- "We all own about 8000 items of which only 5 know how to talk to the rest of the world. Violet’s goal is to make them all smart and connected."
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