Animata is an open-source, real-time interactive animation tool developed by Kitchen Budapest designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances.
Casey Pugh bought a helmet in Amazon and added some red LEDs programed with Arduino. I like the video of how he made it.
Sequencer with Ballbearings
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wreP8FMupyM]
Sequencer with bubblegum
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziIdjrR_MRs]
Sequencer with Skittles
Website with processing source code
Sequencer with GO (the game)
via Hack a Day
I haven’t seen a lot of stuff that work with our sense of smell, except the Nokia smell-o-phone, which is somewhere else on this blog, but that was a concept for the distant future anyway. Here is another concept, but is has a more down-to-earth approach.
I’m still sceptical with the capturing smells part, but this could easily be replaced with some aromatic oils available everywhere.
Concept by Hyun Choi
via I New Idea
Chuck Close’s homework for the week:
Can you think of any other applications where smell could work?
(transcript from the IxD Studio’s whiteboard)
Interaction Design is …
- trying to make monkeys talk
- making companies sell more machines
- assuming that no-one, ever reads the fucking manual
- the sum of all fears
- chasing a unicorn you will never catch
- harnessing the power of water through fire
- a memory of a past that never was and a future that isn’t
- not interactive design
- the unfulfilling answer to the riddle that is you
- the crusty middle of an used band-aid
- the avalanche of predictable ideas that a hundred people thought of before you did
- multi-touching the untouchable/untouched
- sensorporn
- ubiqiqitus
- never playing with a donkey’s tail
- was created by Industrial designers who were not good at sketching
- is not being with your girlfriend for 4 months
- inventing characters such as J.Bacons
- a toxic mirage of hope
- talking like if…then…else…or…goto
Thank you for lending your time to my project yesterday. I hope to set this up one more time to get more portraits before I leave for the holiday break (to capture those I missed in IxD and those who for some reason didn’t save correctly). Probably Monday (Dec 8), afternoon/early eve.
Below is Chuck Close Mikko and some of my other favorites. If you want to see yours, let me know and I can share.
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- Johan
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- Ruedee
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- Dramatic Peps
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- Paavo
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- Lena
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- Faceless Camille
For Benjamin D, but if you also haven’t seen this, take a look. It’s a pen that records your written notes and audio (e.g.: make a hyperlink directly in your notebook to add audio detail to a diagram).
Probably useful for some, but I wonder how easy it is to break a person’s existing note-taking patterns and start using this.
Link:Livescribe.
Just a quick post to show some pictures to those not directly involved in the project that the first-year interaction design student are currently working on. It is a project conducted in partnership with Valmet (Komatsu Forest) that consist in working with Complex interactions in specialized vehicles (that’s the subject of our project); the complex vehicle being a forest harvester, more precisely the Valmet 941.1 model.
Lessons In Electric Circuits
A free series of textbooks on the subjects of electricity and electronics
http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits
[via MAKE magazine]
http://seedmagazine.com/mind08/
Very interesting conference (micro) website, somewhat àla TED.
I particularly liked Lisa Strausfeld‘s keynote presentationâ€â€she even used Processing to generate a type-based illustration for the New York Times Magazine!
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Open-source type
SIDeR 2009 CONFERENCE – A ChALLenge for Interaction
The organisation of the fifth Student Interaction Design Research (SIDeR) conference challenges you to interact! We especially invite graduate and post-graduate students to experience and discuss the future of interaction through their designs, supported by and grounded in solid design arguments.
http://www.flirtingwiththefuture.com/index.php?page=call
Date: April 15th till 17th, 2009
Location: Eindhoven, University of Technology, the Netherlands
Submission Deadline: February 1st 2009
THEME:
Flirting with the Future
prototyped visions by the next generation
TOPICS:
Big Brother is playing your music
The one with ambient platforms and intelligent environments
Designing the void
The one about content, services and disappearing products
The illusion of designing interaction
The one where interaction and its design are questioned
Designocracy or designocrazy
The one about ethics, societal transformation and ‘the why’
The new pencils for design
The one with design tools and methods
Can I pick your brain?
The one with your vision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92YH-gu_Sg8
Have you ever dream of brain-machine interaction?
I found interesting debate on Technology and Us.
Ru sent this by mail, it’s interesting.
Remember those mounted screens people used for neutralize the radiation and glare from the old PC Monitors? Well, this mountable screen is a bit cooler than that…