Less Is More (More or Less): Speculations about the Design of Computers – Bill Buxton’s essay on the weaknesses of general-purpose computers, and why application-specific, networked appliances are a better idea.
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AmbientROOM, Hiroshi Ishii’s CHI98 paper on an ambient technology project at the Tangible Media group, MIT Technorati Tags: networked objects, networks
Leave a CommentFirst Person is Sasha Harris-Cronin’s thesis and installation plan about violence mediated through television and synthesized in first-person shooter games.
Leave a CommentJen Lewin’s project page, including her thesis project, Butterfly. Jen’s documentation of her work is very thorough, including descriptions, schematics, code, notes on gears and motors, and much much more.
Leave a CommentRun by ITP alum Steve BullTag – Wireless game in Times SquareUrban Tapestries – “Public Authoring in the Wireless City” – space annotation project on a large scale…. but played in the streets, using SMS, webcams, and audio messaging.The Go Game – role playing games meet mobile phones.HipnTasty – Wireless entertainment apoplications aimed primarily at young womenHypertag – Bluetooth/IR tags for short-range transmission to mobile phones, used to annotate spaces.GPS Drawing – large scale drawing using GPS waypoints as dots in the drawing.GeoStickies – a space annotation project on cell phonesAT&T Find Friends – delivers location of friends based on their position in the cellular network.Thanks to Liz Goodman, Andrea Moed, and Aya Karpinska for the links.
Leave a CommentInternet0 is an initiative at MIT, very like the Networked Objects class at ITP, but executed on a lower level of abstraction (i.e. all the engineeering is done from scratch, rather than using commercially available embedded net solutions).
Leave a CommentA few nifty network visualizations came up recently on the ITP alumni list:Internet Traffic Report, reports traffic loads on servers around the world.Touchgraph has some intersting visualizations of google links, liveJournal, and others.
Leave a CommentI’m really fond of Victorian style mechanisms, built in brass and dark woods. Chuck Genco’s work seems to be a great example of it, though I’ve never seen it in real life.
Comments closedTechnology Grant News – sources for funding for projects Technorati Tags: art, grants & funding
Leave a CommentHere’s a great page on all kinds of Display and Counting Tubes, including several sets of instructions on building your own displays using them. More…
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