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“The Cryoscope by Robb Godshaw shows the user exactly what to expect outside by haptically exhibiting exactly how cold or warm it is to be outside. The user simply touches an aluminum cube that has been heated or cooled to the appropriate temperature. The unit fetches weather data from the internet, and translates it to the cube physically, pumping heat in or out of the cube.”
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“As we move away from interaction via screens and into physical space, we have the potential to make the world significantly more magical. We can make the everyday into the any day, especially if we focus on communication and understanding.”
— Zach Lieberman of Openframeworks responding to the question “how will technology become more humanised in the next decade”, in Wired’s March 2012 issue. (via tim)
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Haptic Intelligentsia by Studio Homonculus is a human 3D printing machine that allows the user to tactually perceive the virtual object and to directly transform it into the physical. The user can freely move the extruding gun, which is attached to a haptic interface. When the tip of the gun is moved into a surface region of the virtual object, the interface generates forces under computer control, allowing the user to feel and touch the surface of the object.
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Teagueduino is an open source electronic board and interface that allows you to realize creative ideas without soldering or knowing how to code, while teaching you the ropes of programming and embedded development (like Arduino).
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Knock Clock by Gijs Huisman, Michael Owen Liston and Giorgio Uboldi is a project created in 48hours at CIID’s Summer School during the physical computing week, taught by Massimo Banzi.
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Using collaborative filtering, a branch of artificial intelligence frequently used by online retailers, the Smart Pop-Up Wine Shop by Gonzalo Garcia-Perate recommends the most popular wines as well as favoured purchase combinations by learning from its customers. Lights integrated in the shop’s furniture indicate the popularity of each wine using a colour scale. Additionally visitors can scan each bottle to see what others bought in combination with it, creating a real world version of the famous “users who bought this also bought” system popularised by Amazon.
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“InteractiveFabrication.com showcases work exploring Interactive Fabrication: interfaces and devices that take real-time input to fabricate physical form.”
Some projects: shaper, trace-modeler, speaker
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Latitude asked a bunch of children what they wanted the internet to be able to do - and then illustrated the answers with this video. Some of them are a bit far fetched but you get the general idea. They want an Internet of Things.
A PDF of the study is available here.
They want immersive, tangible, interconnected experiences with “stuff” and It’ll be their internet soon. Why not start making it now?
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Howduino is a free, one or two day workshop about connecting the internet to the real world, breathing life into inanimate objects and creating new ways to interact with things. It’s for artists, programmers, designers, hobbyists and anyone else interested in robotics, technology, communication and interaction.
