August 2011
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City Scars is an interaction design thesis project by Vandersault created during his Masters Degree at Umeå Institute of Design in Northern Sweden. More at cityscars.com
Aug 31st
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High Altitude Balloon Project Oslo was Launched from the Hyper.no office in Oslo, Norway on August 25 iPhone 4 with GeoLoqi and Hero GoPro HD camera. Flight time: ~1h 40min Highest altitude reached: 17,02 km. Descended at about 32 km/h Travel distance: ~120 km Landed at: latitude: 60.6686 longitude: 11.3453 Photos
Aug 31st
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Aug 31st
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Ben Purdy made Minecraft in real life by combining projection mapping with a piezoelectric sensor. (via @carlmw)
Aug 31st
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Aug 31st
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“EnergyHub helps you to see how much energy you’re using so that you can take steps to use less of it. The EnergyHub system is a suite of Web and mobile apps that connect with the Home Base and other devices in the home so that you can take control of your energy use. A Wireless Thermostat connected to the EnergyHub will allow you to easily program it on a schedule so that you can...
Aug 31st
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Aug 30th
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Aug 30th
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Aug 30th
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Aug 30th
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A visualisation of London’s Twitter activity as collected by Fabian Neuhaus (@urbantick)’s New City Landscapes project “With the visualisation we are highlighting the way information disseminates through re-tweeting of messages. An RT message will show a thin yellow line between original sender and re-sender. The information travels at some speed, which is based on the time it...
Aug 26th
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Aug 23rd
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Marcin Ignac alongside Jakob Eg Larsen and Arek Stopczynski from the Danish Technical University tracked mobile phones with Bluetooth enabled and discoverable as they moved around the Roskilde Festival. “The height of different parts of the festival area represents number of detected devices over time. The color was assigned to every scanning point depending on it’s proximity to one...
Aug 22nd
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Transparency in Time, by Peter Gregson. Performed at the Creatives In Residence showcase at The Hospital Club in London, March 17, 2011. A collaboration with designer Dean McNamee.
Aug 22nd
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Aug 19th
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High frequency trading. One second presented in one minute.
Aug 19th
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“…a new type of product, a new type of thing that begins and ends in data,...”
– Matt Jones in My problem with “The Internet of Things”
Aug 18th
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Aug 18th
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The Hyphae Lamp is a series of algorithmically generated lighting designs by Nervous System. Each lamp is individually grown through a process based on leaf vein formation. No two lamps are alike. Each lamp casts a unique pattern of branching shadows on the wall and ceiling, creating an ethereal and organic atmosphere. The lamps are 3D-printed to order in nylon and illuminated with eco-friendly...
Aug 17th
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Aug 16th
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Aug 11th
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Aug 11th
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Sandy Noble’s Polargraph is a thing that draws pictures using a normal pen, some motors and string. It takes ages too - turning the display (or reveal) of data into a performance. More images in the gallery
Aug 11th
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“MoleBot is a mole robot built under a transformable game board inspired table that allows people to enjoy playful interactions with everyday objects and props - and (obviously) experience what it feels like to have a mole live under your table. It will be exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2011 Emerging Technologies from August 7 to 11 in Vancouver, Canada.” (via Timo)
Aug 11th
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Aug 4th
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Aug 2nd
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Aug 2nd
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