lindsay williams’ sensecam is a wearable digital camera with a wide-angle lens that captures time-lapse movies of the wearer’s activities. her team has done a study suggesting that the camera can be useful to help someone with dementia remember events. a woman who watched the recording could then remember events for several months, as opposed […]
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re-style
william good is a new line of fashions designed by nick graham (founder of joe boxer) sold on-line and in partnership with goodwill stores in the san francisco area. an interesting take on up-cycling, these clothes are made from donated garments at the store to which some design elements are added and then re-sold at […]
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remote graffiti
locamoda‘s wiffiti screens are large public displays to which passersby can send messages via SMS. the screens are mounted in public places like cafes, restaurants, and increasingly workplaces. recently wiffiti screens have begun to serve a political role: they are mounted in (among other places) barack obama‘s springfield IL campaign headquarters, hillary clinton‘s albany NY […]
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second office
josh lifton (of pushpin computing fame) presented his work on ‘dual reality‘(pdf) at the moda+tecnologia event. as part of his phd thesis he deployed activity sensors all around the medialab which look (and act) as power strips, but they record activity in the form of sound level, power consumption and movement. the data is collected […]
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virtual fit
louise guay, president and founder of my virtual model, presented her company’s avatar-based fashion shopping and social networking system tuesday at the moda+tecnologia gathering at the ICA. on-line shopping for clothes is notoriously unsatisfying, especially if you care about fit and detail. americans only buy 8% of their clothes on-line, as compared to 41% of […]
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almost made in china
atelier van lieshout‘s ‘almost perfect’ is a chair that was drawn on a napkin and sent to china without further information. most of the detail was achieved by the chinese manufacturer, lending a sense of imperfection and the mystique of a knock-off to the finished product. on the opposite end is the incessant attention to […]
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kitchen blogs
olivier peyricot’s video set is a set of cookware with integrated cameras that allows their contents to be captured and displayed on computer. this reminds me of takashi okamoto’s kitchen blog project, in which a simple countertop device allows video to be recorded and edited and posted to a blog for friends and families to […]
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blogjects
last friday i was invited by tom klinkowstein to talk about ‘living objects’ at pratt in an event called ‘it’s alive! (experience design)‘ together with irene pereyra and anthony townsend. the event looked at what the life of a designer would be like in 2030. here are some images from the poster that was prepared […]
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