An ongoing collection noteworthy things found from the internet, curated by Sami Niemelä.
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We like interacting with physical objects in the real world, goes the reasoning, so it will presumably be more pleasant to interact with computer software if it pretends to be a physical object too. But why?
MIT students hack together a Minority Report-inspired interface on MS Kinect: Kinect Hand Detection on Youtube
Infographics as Interface!
For the Hannover Tech Fair 2010, an Interactive Multitouch Mediatable from Projekttriangle Design Studio.
Be sure to check out the video on their news page.
“We can begin to treat urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks.”
Frameworks for Citizen Responsiveness: Towards a Read/Write Urbanism (via smartercities)
Assaf Biderman explores similar ideas of this “real-time city” by studying how distributed technologies can be used to improve our understanding of cities and create a more sustainable ways of interacting in urban environments.
(via spime)
Faceless, the minimalist LED watch by Japanese designer Hironao Tsuboi of 100% , a design studio based in Tokyo, Japan (via @srfstn)
