augmented reality describes the application of computer interfaces onto the real world, usually by overlaying objects with computer graphics either through projection or a head-mounted display. popularized by x-ray glasses, this idea has actually had few popular applications because it’s really hard to accurately map the real world with digital information. one of the most […]
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xray vision
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growing chair
children grow so fast that it’s a challenge to fit their bodies and their interests for more than a few months at a time. as a result a lot of toys and furniture are cheaply made and readily disposed of – all because of bad design. charlotte friis design studio conceived of this easel with […]
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life is a game
the mixed reality lab at the national university of singapore built a new kind of video game that you play in real life: human pacman. the system works through a very ungainly wearable computer that overlays everyday paths with yellow spheres that you pick up to collect points. there are also cookies, for energy, and […]
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sore loser
jay silver made this fake product for our technology informatoin and social control class with chris c last year. it’s a board game that reflects teenage boy antisocial angst and self-destruction. each player puts his hand in the cardboard mouth and his cell phone on the board. if the cell phone doesn’t ring the player […]
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remote graffiti
locamoda‘s wiffiti screens are large public displays to which passersby can send messages via SMS. the screens are mounted in public places like cafes, restaurants, and increasingly workplaces. recently wiffiti screens have begun to serve a political role: they are mounted in (among other places) barack obama‘s springfield IL campaign headquarters, hillary clinton‘s albany NY […]
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animated label
there’s something about stop-motion animation that appears real, maybe because of its physicality of because of all those smart materials and the promises of nano-technology. i just get the feeling that one day all of the things around us are going to be able to come to life. this beringer commercial uses exquisite stop motion […]
paint it white
in today’s new york times magazine rob walker talks about the new fire extinguisher on sale at the home depot – the home hero – which replaces our old extinguishers with something more ‘designer.’ presumably the aesthetic appeals to design-conscious consumers who will be more likely to keep it at hand – although there is […]
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second office
josh lifton (of pushpin computing fame) presented his work on ‘dual reality‘(pdf) at the moda+tecnologia event. as part of his phd thesis he deployed activity sensors all around the medialab which look (and act) as power strips, but they record activity in the form of sound level, power consumption and movement. the data is collected […]
Posted in 3d, blogogracy, hyperexperience, surveillance, visualization
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