Huge congrats to Janis Beinerts, Lars Sundelin, Sebastian Aumer and Trieuvy Luu for winning two Interaction Awards, Best Student & Best in Category Engagement.
ANNA is a breathing assistant for children, helping them through the scary process of sedation before surgery. The device combines light and sound into a fascinating game.
ANNA was a two week collaboration between four students from the MA programs interaction design and advanced product design at Umeå Institute of Design.
The NFL's magic yellow line is a wonder of computer science
I'm not much of a football fan, but I absolutely geek out on the nuts technology behind the yellow line.
Posted by Ezra Klein on Saturday, February 6, 2016
Totally brilliant!!!
Amongst other things, Peter Vogel shows a neat interactive installation he refers to as “A materialised music score”.
A documentary by Jean Martin and Conall Gleeson about Peter Vogel and his work in his atelier in Freiburg i.B., South-West Germany.
I love the tiny display, and the fact that it’s so small in comparison to the rest of the synth. Nice toggle switches too, some things are just better in hardware in a way :-)
ARQ is a drum machine, sequencer, synthesizer, looper, and MIDI controller with a built-in accelerometer. Even more, ARQ is freedom. With its wireless Bluetooth Ring Controller, you can escape the booth, move the music, and get in front of the crowd.
https://zoom-na.com/products/production-recording/digital-instruments/arq-aero-rhythmtrak
A peek back into June and tiny robots.
“MIT researchers presented a printable origami robot that folds itself up from a flat sheet of plastic when heated and measures about a centimeter from front to back.
Weighing only a third of a gram, the robot can swim, climb an incline, traverse rough terrain, and carry a load twice its weight. Other than the self-folding plastic sheet, the robot’s only component is a permanent magnet affixed to its back. Its motions are controlled by external magnetic fields.”
“NOISE is the most expressive music app to ever hit the glass surface of an iPhone. Building on both the 3D Touch technology of the iPhone 6s and ROLI’s expertise in touch-sensitive music interfaces, NOISE transforms the surface of your iPhone into a powerful multidimensional instrument.”
“The Reality Editor is a new kind of tool for empowering you to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. Just point the camera of your smartphone at an object and its invisible capabilities will become visible for you to edit. … Use the Reality Editor to define simple actions, change the functionality of objects around you, remix how things work and interact. Make something that is virtual into something that is physical and the physical more virtual.”
Read more about the research results from the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group at http://fluid.media.mit.edu/realityeditor
If you wish to play with it there is also an open source platform and support for turning Arduino Yun and Pi into a hybrid objects.
Nothing really new, but variety sparks ideas and this format feels quite close to those sticker tattoos as a kid!
“Sticking to the skin just like temporary tattoos do, Tech Tats are made of electronic components and are able to monitor your vital statistics — your heart rate, your blood pressure, your body temperature and more. They have a similar function to wearables like FitBit, but they’re easier to wear — being attached to your skin, they’re far less cumbersome.
Chaotic Moon’s tattoos use electroconducive paint to pick up the vital signs from the body. “We use a conductive material to connect the micro controller with a variety of sensors held within a flexible temporary tattoo format,” Ben Lamm, CEO of Chaotic Moon explained to WIRED.”
