Ben Bashford - Notebook of Things: Archive

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Graffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study in the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database, 000000book.com, where writers can share analytical representations of their hand styles. This is what you get when...

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Nordkapp and SuomiTV have taken interactive TV and the touchscreen device and explored what the convergence of these two technologies could mean for the business of a broadcast television channel. Would you like to know more?

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There’s a lot of things Russell Davies covers in this talk that I really really like and I’ve written about some of them before - but the thing I like the most (today) is Russell’s big red button. It’s fantastic. I think what he says about interfaces becoming more and more discreet is so very true and when you frame it up as a bit like we’re trying to pretend we can...

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Instruments played by arduino/processing powered robot arms. Created by Laboratorio and colmeia for the Ford fusion site.

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“I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building,...”

– Eero Saarinen

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Swarm Light by rAndom International.

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“Bridging the physical and online worlds will bring the benefits of web services to the bricks-and-mortar world where people still live most of their lives. In turn, online environments will be enriched by access to physical places and devices, and to people that don’t sit quietly at their desks.” Beyond Augmented Reality: Ubiquitous Media Experiences - Gene Becker

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This kinetic shade adjusts the amount of light entering a room in response to the changing outdoor brightness. The shade is constructed from an array of foldable units, shaped like pixels that can open and close in different sequences. As the folding units/pixels transform, they create a “living” shade that “breathes” the light through it. It is constructed from rows of the folding units fixed to...

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A story about the Semantic Web (please don’t call it Web 3.0). Interviews with: Tim Berners-Lee Clay Shirky Chris Dixon David Weinberger Nova Spivack Jason Shellen Lee Feigenbaum John Hebeler Alon Halevy David Karger Abraham Bernstein Transcript, interview bios, and other info on kateray.net Downloadable version on drop.io/web3point0

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Ghost Bikes are small and somber memorials for bicyclists who are killed or hit on the street. A bicycle is painted all white and locked to a street sign near the crash site. They serve as reminders of the tragedy that took place on an otherwise anonymous street corner, and as quiet statements in support of cyclists right to safe travel. Director: Christopher Hewitt DP: Will Humphris Production...

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Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled? Via TED.

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This hacked IKEA furniture reminds me of Dunne and Raby (in a good way). Love it.

Jun 11th

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“So when looking for somewhere using the iPhone I had two choices; use an...”

– Augmented Reality: is it a Bit Rubbish? (via iamdanw) I agree wholeheartedly. It makes you look like this.

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Deborah Estrin: Humans As Sensors Deborah Estrin is Founding Director of the National Science Foundation funded Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). CENS’ mission is to explore and develop innovative, end-to-end, distributed sensing systems, across an array of scientifically and socially relevant applications, from ecosystems to human systems. Estrin and her colleagues are currently...

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