Proof of concept. It’s not 100% working. Read more here.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAI9mF_cBu0]
A walking house was developed by a danish art collective N55 and MIT have together build walking house.
First steps:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvxIB83Y0PA]
Designers say it provides a solution to the problem of rising water levels as the house can simply walk away from floods.
Which one comes first: your cat or your blender.
Check this out, the Blender Defender
Have a cat that won’t stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out of him with a motion-detecting blender (while recording the results for my own amusement, of course).
See the videos and explanation http://www.plasma2002.com/blenderdefender/
When Wayne Forrester saw that his wife Emma changed her Facebook profile to “single” just days after he moved out after a fight, he got so angry that he stabbed her to death!
The day before the murder, he called her parents and complained about his wife’s Facebook entry which he said “made her look like a fool”, the court heard.
In a statement to police Forrester said: “Emma and I had just split up. She forced me out. She then posted messages on an internet website telling everyone she had left me and was looking to meet other men.
“I loved Emma and felt totally devastated and humiliated about what she had done to me.”
In a victim impact statement, Mrs Forrester’s sister Liza Rothery said the murder had had a “devastating” impact on her and parents Frances and Robert. Miss Rothery added: “What on earth could Emma have done to result in such a brutal, callous attack on a defenceless woman?”
Since the internal site thinks I’m spamming it, I’ll just put the link here.
http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Main/HomePage
Now this is much better idea. This little robot plant stand moves around to find where the sun shines for the plant it holds!
via Neatorama
Probably because the real thing is just too real, a bunch Korean scientists decided to create a robotic plant that has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions, so basically biomimicking at it’s best. Why, oh why?
The XY interactive textile is a large tactile interface for playing electronic music. The performer plays it simply by the movement of his/her hand on it’s surface. This textile interface allows users to compose and interpret electronic music by choreographic movements. By its size, its texture, its flexibility and its transparency, this textile interface involves the whole body in the musical interpretation. Like a music score, the sound elements are graphically represented on the fabric, giving to the composer the ability to locate and play (with) them. Thus, for each piece of music, a graphic partition is carried out.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhWxbggZmNc]
It’s open source as well, so all the code (one processing sketch and lot of Pure Data patches) can be found on the website. Also they provided wtih all assembly instructions and arduino lilypad code, but they all in french.
This is a video i have recorded during last weekend in a pub (excuse me for the quality). this guy is one of the three member band who was DJ ing that night, he is incharge of the visuals which were projected on the wall.ÂÂ
He was using a apple wireless keyboard to trigger visuals on the wall. I find it simple and very interesting. I don’t know how many people really experienced the visuals but i think its a good Experience prototype example.
cheers
Hi!
Here are my slides from the lectures this week:
usability-evaluation-testing-nils-erik-gustafsson
I hope you enjoyed the course as much as I did!
/Nils-Erik