May 2010
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May 26th
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WatchWatch
This 80-microns-thick (about as thick as a human hair) full-color display can be rolled up and unfurled repeatedly without degrading picture quality. It was made possible by a breakthrough in OLED tech, in which Sony researchers created organic thin-film transistors with 8 times the performance of conventional OTFTs. From Popsci. I’d be quite interested to see OLED that can be wrapped...
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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WatchWatch
Daily Stack by Anders Højmose is a playful tool that helps you become more aware of your daily work-flow and time management. By creating a physical representation of your tasks, Daily Stack speaks subtly to your conscience and helps you manage your time through unobtrusive ambient feedback. Daily Stack consists of a base device and a collection of wooden bricks in different shapes and colours....
May 24th
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May 22nd
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 13th
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May 10th
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Miss Savidge
While I was on holiday in Norfolk I was lucky enough to see a talk about an incredible woman named May Savidge (Auntie May) by her nephew’s wife Christine Adams. Born in 1911 May Savidge was a fiercely independent woman. She said that she was brought up to believe “There’s no such word as can’t” and it defined her life. Her life is a hard one and is punctuated...
May 8th
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May 8th
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May 7th
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May 5th
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May 5th
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WatchWatch
The Sidetrack table peripherally records you as you work in the home, tracing a pattern as you move from space to space. Marker pens plot this pattern as the table spins, oscillating in time with your movement between rooms. Sensors are placed in the areas you want to observe, for example the desk or the kitchen. By placing tags on the table, you purposefully work towards set tasks, with the...
May 5th
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May 5th
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May 5th
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May 5th
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“Software cries out for personality, for ornamentation, for delight. To reflect...”
– Amy Hoy - Don’t listen to Le Corbusier—or Jakob Nielsen
May 4th
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May 4th
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Facebook Presence
At the f8 conference in San Francisco Facebook gave all attendees an RFID tag attatched to their conference badge. It allowed them to “check in” at physical locations around the conference simply by tapping the tag on a reader. Tapping in at a location updates your Facebook status - and allowed them to do some really cool visualisations. It’s the same technology Facebook...
May 4th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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May 2nd
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Upload Hotspots
In the near future public Wi-Fi zones could serve as “data oases” where people go to sync their data or upload to the cloud. ADSL isn’t going to cut it for the people that provide them. I’ve been meaing to give my lovely little map a try, so I went to The Wellcome Collection for lunch and a spot of work. I took a few photos on the journey and used the free connection to...
May 2nd
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“Want to know if your ‘HTML application’ is part of the web? Link me into it. Not...”
– Understand The Web · Ben Ward
May 2nd
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