A robot that responds to affection has been developed in the UK. Meanwhile, Christian Nold is looking at interesting ways of mapping cities.
Entries from August 2009
A Robot with Heart/New Ways of Mapping Emotion
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: interface
Changes in Everyday Experience
July 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Just some quick links to get you going on this, consider the following interfaces. They are all poised to make a considerable change in everyday experience.
Jeff Han (Multi-touch)
Fingertapps (the multi-touch company)
and of course the iPod touch/iPhone
One of my favourites - brain ball ..
EEG interfaces, as below, or here - the neural impulse activator …
or consider [...]
Tags: everyday life · interaction · interesting links · interface
Grace Jones and Steven Shaviro's analysis of the electronic
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Here’s an interesting new music video by Grace Jones. You can also read a very interesting discussion of it on Steven Shaviro’s blog (this is one of the most interesting “theory” blogs around).
Obscure tip from the early 1980s - listen to Grace Jones “Slave to the Rhythm” 45 at 33rpm, if you can find the [...]
Tags: interesting links · music video · theory
Blog Based Documentary on Texting in the Philipines
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
The very generous Chris Caines from UTS, thought we might be interested in this documentary he made - Thumb Candy: A blog based documentary about texting and SMS culture in the Philippines. In itself it’s a great example of a digital aesthetic. And of course it’s about a great example of the shift in everyday [...]
Tags: everyday life · social impact
