Looks like Dell is aiming for a new clientele: supermodels and/or metrosexuals. Sweet.
… right.
In a recent interview on the Today Show, Mark Zuckerberg  the young founder of Facebook  observed that the single most distinctive feature of his revolutionary social networking site was its capacity to let users control various degrees of privacy.
I would have listened to more of the interview were it not for my laptop notifying me that I was being invited to chat by someone I went to high school with. For anyone unfamiliar with this practice, Facebook also has a questionable feature displaying everyone who you’ve “friended†who happens to be online while you’re online, which in turn allows them to spontaneously engage you in an online chat. (Even if you’re sitting in your pajamas, watching the Today Show.) Mind you, the sheer fascination of this surprise encounter  this particular guy never uttered a single word to me when I was a teenager  struck me then, as it does now, as remarkably un-private.
Here’s a small gallery showing how the lovely open house day went down in our coolerish interaction workshop.
Thanks to all that helped and came to visit!
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They say this the future of dining in restaurants. Time will tell.
A lot better video with explonations on CNET.
As y’all know, it’s the open house tomorrow in UID. The lovely people from Ställverket will be cookin’ waffles for all to eat while visiting our beloved School and facilities.
We tried to get our workshop semi-sparkling today, and, well, it is semi-sparkling (kind of). Also, Camille set up a few interactive stuff to… well, interact with.
See you there tomorrow, and please, IxD people, send us projects to show to the locals who’ll be visiting us!
Virtual Reality with a couple of WiiMotes, no Johnny Lee here.
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Instructions here. (not for beginners)
Seriously, PETA wants to create tofu that is flavoured with George Clooney’s sweat and they call it CloFu. “CloFu could make your taste buds and your heart melt. Of course, what’s even better is that after everyone gets a piece of George and realizes how delicious tofu truly is, diets will be revolutionized.”, says the PETA blogger Liz Graffeo.
Great! I’m actually happy about this. Food is one of the areas where biotech can be a real future player, not just making GM crops or hybrid fruits like grapples, pluots, lematos or tangelos.
The “prototyping-hot-corner” (Pepe, Roberto and me) were uploading quite a lot of videos to Vimeo lately. So I created a Vimeo channel for us where all our videos are at one place. We thought it might be cool to have place where all videos from our Interaction Design group could be collected. Not sure if Vimeo is the right place, but I like it (much more than Youtube). What do you think about it? I remember all the videos of the experience prototyping workshop Camille took… it’s hard to find them now. Also we could create a permant link (that always shows the latest video) here on this blog.
Anyway… if you have your own Vimeo account, feel free to add me to your contacts and I’ll give you permissions to add videos to the Umea Institute of Design channel.
Call for entries: Designs for the next 90 years
Electrolux Design Lab 2009 invites industrial design students to create home appliances that will shape how people prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes over the next nine decades. First prize 5,000 Euro and a paid internship at Electrolux.
Deadline May 31, 2009. For more information and registration: www.electrolux.com/designlab
And iPod Touch too I guess (of which we now have some in the workshop). From Tellart.
it has a name. trendy.
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I know you guys love french electro. But don’t let your musical ineptitude hinder your love for dancey-dancey (I’ve lost every single comprehensible thing in my vocabulary)
Spring summit 2009
Friday March 27, 2009 at 10:00
Umeå Institute of Design & Tellart present
Sensing And Sensuality
Adam Greenfield – “Towards a Newer Urbanism”Â
Speedbird; Everyware
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Mikael Wiberg – “Interaction & Textures”Â
Umeå Institute of Design
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Matt Cottam – “Professional Amateur”Â
Tellart & Rhode Island School of Design
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Matt Jones – “Anything Essential is Invisible”Â
Dopplr
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Lennart Andersson – “Industrial Design meets Interaction Design”Â
Ergonomidesign
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Erica Robles – “Media Spaces & Mega Structures”Â
HUMlab, Umeå University
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Camille Moussette – “Craftsmanship in/for IxD”Â
Umeå Institute of Design
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Jack Schulze – “Media products, phenomena and the bendy city”Â
Schulze and Webb
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Timo Arnall – “Making Visible”Â
Touch & Oslo School of Architecture and Design
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www.dh.umu.se
More information on our website
I never heard about this before, but I live in a barrel under the stairs. It’s a collection of a lot of processing sketches, together with the source code. Verrry nice. Share your own too, right?
