This genius system sends out a tweet from the baker’s shop whenever the bread is out of the oven, inviting customers to get their fresh bread while it’s still hot.
Runs on Arduino.
Made by Poke.
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Freeze at grandcentral NYC
May be Flashmobs are not anything new and probably everybody knows/
participated in one…but still its fun.
No pants Subwayride 2009 (NYC )
See also: Smartmobs by Howard Rheingold
One of the very best books about typography is The Elements of Typographic Style,
by Robert Bringhurst. Now it is being adapted to the Web by Richard Rutter.
It’s worth having as a reference to good typographic design.
Festo robotic penguins
check the video on YouTube to see the water, flying penguins and more. The concept of
interactive walls is pretty nice too!
Employment is on everyone’s mind these days. If you’re out of the loop (find a way back in) and check out listings on IxDA’s LinkedIn job board.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXErST5NST8]
via Kevin Kelly’s blog on ‘The Quantified Self’.
(article by Gary Wolf) A few weeks ago I wrote about the dream of the mood phone. This dream has been so persistent that its appeal probably reaches beyond mere technical utility to touch other, unspoken feelings about the role of the phone in our social life. After all, it is often hard to perceive the mood of a person on the other end of a phone conversation. The other person’s mood is inaccessible to us through the instrument that connects us, and maybe we wish that the phone were enhanced, so that it could deliver a better signal about the state of the person we are talking to. The phone is intimate, in a way: we have their voice in our ear. But it is impersonal, also: we are kept from noticing many important things.ÂÂ
Simultaneous intimacy and inaccessibility: this also describes our relationship with our own moods. We know our moods well, we feel them directly. And yet, sometimes we fail to notice them, or even mistake them. A person observing us from the outside can say: “Are you angry? You seem angry.” And we may have to pause for a minute and ask: “am I angry?” We are both intimate with and separate from our moods, both near and far, like when we talk on the phone.
Looks pretty rad. Here’s a link to the meek.fm official website.
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Can we get these for the Interaction Lab?
The following video is the result of a minor workshop conducted by Niklas today. As a class, we produced in groups each a sketch revolving around public and private spaces. Amid, Lena and I have approached the assignment with emphasis on perspective. The short sketch aims to narrate how a relationship could be told without the revelation of a character.
This documentary has now been released as shareware. It is one of the best documentaries ever made. Seriously. I hope you watch it and feel disgusted after.
Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal “person” to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?”
It has a lot of awards all around the world (26!)
Watch or download (various versions in quality)
kinetic sculpture by joachim sauter and art + com
Some pretty heavy systematic behavior achieved at the bmw museum in munich. the artist has a lot of work worth checking out achieved together with Berlin based art + com.
“The kinetic sculpture is a metaphorical translation of the process of form-finding in art and design. 714 metal spheres hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually controlled stepper motors and covering the area of six square meters, animate a seven minute long mechatronic narrative. In the beginning moving chaotically, then evolving to several competing forms that eventually resolve to the finished object, the kinetic sculpture creates an artistic visualisation of the process of form-finding in different variations.”
watch the video here.