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. ;-)
24.6.09
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/
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/
Labels:
3D,
augmented reality,
ema,
interactive technology,
the world of tomorrow?,
trends
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??;)
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?
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
www.visualcv.com
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