January 2010
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Obligatory iPad Post
Apple launched the iPad yesterday. If you don’t know what it is you’re probably reading the wrong blog.
As usual people are saying “Meh, it’s a big iPhone, It won’t do Flash, and it won’t multitask”. This sort of thing always happens when Apple launch a new product.
I think what these people are failing to see is that the majority of iPhone/iPad/mobile...
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Designing Social Interfaces
Last night I went to a great talk by Christian Crumlish from Yahoo! about design patterns - specifically design patterns for the social web. It was basically an hour long ad for the book he’s written called Designing Social Interfaces but I didn’t mind because it was actually very informative and entertaining.
He ran through the history of design patterns, from the book A Pattern...
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Data Driven Objects
This is a diagram of a brief set by Russell Davies when he visited students at the the AHO Instititute of Design in Oslo last October. It encapsulates so much of what I find exciting about the potential for “post digital” thinking.
Data driven manufacturing. How cool is that?
In the future when we have all these smart objects logging and reporting an infinite amount of data about...
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Withings
This is Withings “The Wi-Fi Scale”. It’s a bathroom scale that connects to the internet.
You step on and it recognises who you are before it weighs you, measures your fat and uploads the data to the internet. You can then access your stats privately (nicely visualised of course) alongside those of your family via a web control panel or via an iPhone app.
That’s not all....
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Augmented Architecture
This is the N Building in Tokyo. The entire front is a QR Code that you can point your mobile phone at to see the building augmented with a digital overlay.
There’s something about it that irks me. It’s far from rubbish. No, I think the implementation is fantastic. Hats off to the team that made it happen. I’m really very glad people are doing stuff like this - but the...
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Robocop was spot on
For a film released in 1987 Robocop was a pretty accurate depiction of the future.
It has augmented reality (which is all the rage at the moment).
Check out her glasses - she looks like an American Apparel model.
Location Based Services.
GPS Tracking on a handheld device - in 1987 (Palm released the Pilot nearly ten years later).
I love how the flashing light on that handheld...
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I want one of these!
This is the Parrot AR Drone project from France. It’s possibly one of the most futuristic things I’ve seen apart from the US Air Force’s absolutely terrifying unmanned Predator Drone.
Amazing huh? What if I told you it’s open source, and has an SDK. Even better.
The best thing about it is that all the components to build something like this are relatively inexpensive...
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