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Posted by on Mar 22nd, 2006 | 1 comment

Telephoneboxing

Telephoneboxing
Reaching out and touching someone is getting ridiculously easy. You can telephone someone with little or no effort involved. Open Top is reminding us that sometimes there is value when you have to put effort into contacting someone. Their Telephoneboxing installation makes you work for...
Posted by on Mar 14th, 2006 | 0 comments

FutureDesk

In the future there will be no need for your space bar. All previously individual words will merge into one metaword regardless of grammar and punctuations and all the niceties of linguistic tradition. Oh, and there will also be this fancy desk which is something like the manifestation of Google in corporeal desk form, or something to that effect. It will probably make more sense in the...
Posted by on Mar 1st, 2006 | 1 comment

Living Skins: Architecture as Interface

Peter Hall over at the Adobe Motion Design Centre has an essay up regarding the use of architecture with respect to communication. He does not get too deep into the idea of interactivity with architecture and its inhabitation or context but he does serve up some good rudimentary case studies worth checking out if you’re interested in a cursory glance the state of these ideas. A commercial watches guide is...
Posted by on Feb 22nd, 2006 | 1 comment

Document Icons

Document Icons
Amber Frid-Jimenez, Philip DeCamp and Deb Roy over at the MIT Media Laboratory have whipped up this project they call Document Icons. Essentially it generates radial histograms of document collections which highlight salient themes. This allows users to visually scan icons representative of large datasets and quickly find the most relevant ...
Posted by on Nov 21st, 2005 | 0 comments

Stanley wrist-tool-watches

Stanley wrist-tool-watches
The usability gurus over at Stanley have been relegated to basement offices without outside lines in order to facilitate the release of the new Stanley wrist-tool-watch product line. You will never again need to wonder the time as you repair small household...
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