24.6.09

Lifelong Kindergarten

I just read about this tool called Glow Doodle,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGhQHhxXHZE
which is marginally funny, but more interesting to us seems this MIT group:
http://llk.media.mit.edu/ - The Lifelong Kindergarten Group!

Make sure to read their mission, and to have a look at their projects. I can see at least Emanuele liking this. ;-)

in retro we trust


Manomio,

a start-up based in Phoenix who provides application for I-phone,

started a campaign to re-introduce the 80s style in computer and gaming: "in retro we trust"

Their main aim is to reintroduce Commodore 64 - "the best selling homecomputer ever" - in our everyday life, adding it on Iphone






take a look...

17.6.09

sometimes design answers real questions ;-)

Mac’s petit inventions: Physically Digital






We all know how great a touch screen is… But have you ever thought that it’s a nightmare for the blind? You never know what you’re touching because everything is flat. All the information and status is on the screen, so a user has to take the device up from a pocket, touch the necessary buttons and see with his eyes. In the future information is told in 3D.

So what would this look like? Let’s take a mobile phone as an example: The front face and the sides of it transforms the shapes according to what information or status is expressed. It makes concavity and convexity on the surface. For example, the face can be customized with contoured graphics. It could be dressed up with a kimono-like graphic or it could have a concave clock so that a blind user can know the time.

read the whole article at http://johnnyholland.org/magazine/2009/06/macs-petit-inventions-physically-digital/

16.6.09

A Sister Project

Somewhere between Virginia and North Carolina there is a project with quite similar goal to those we have in our Red-Ink family. It's not a doctoral school, though.
It's called LIKES:
http://www.likes.org.vt.edu/

(This blog serves mainly to break the ice after Luca's ground-breaking blog about the Natal project... Seems like nobody dares to blog anymore after having seen those videos... - am I right??;)

10.6.09

Human Computer Interaction: the evolution

Project Natal for Microsoft XBOX 360...
See this pre registered Milo Demo of the Project Natal presented at the E3 2009 event






and a live use of the system, at the same event




Don't you think is very impressive?

3.6.09

Build your online CV

Having a simple but effective online CV, maybe coupled with a portfolio of your main works, is a good way both to keep reflecting on your profile, and to find a good position. Here is a nice (and free) tool for that:
www.visualcv.com