In a world where the devices around us are being connected before we even know why they should be, there is increasing buzz around the idea of the connected home: a futuristic ecosystem of products that provide feedback about the home that could transmit data about anything from what food is rotting in the fridge […]
Mind snippets from my new job: colors smiles helping hands men? women. indians wearing turmeric wednesday parfait client? team? team. client? client. team. hilarious ever-shifting project: a hairy beast continually growing new arms chopping off the arms of the beast missing skills learning! factoid: irish people used to live at pier 70 and built the […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve written — I hope to be back, at least once a week, now that I’m settled back in SF and have a job again! In any case, I just returned from the tech monstrosity that is CES in Las Vegas (photos to come, for now I misplaced my phone with […]
Working in Denmark for the past six months has revealed a few key differences in workplace communication culture: 1) The extensive use of the smiley: Anything that has any possibility of being misconstrued, especially at work, is anointed with a smiley at the end — even, on occasion, from my boss. My analysis of the situation is […]
you can re-train this robot by moving its hands and showing it what to do. Excellent example of using smart interaction design principles to make more intuitive technologies. The person working with the robot should not have to work with an interface and heavy code, which is what makes this so wonderful. The best interface […]
Today’s shout-outs to notable for-profit businesses that are trying to hurt the environment a little less: 1) Trash Couture, based in Copenhagen, which takes old vintage lace and couture clothes and recycles them into new, one-of-a-kind wedding dresses: http://www.trash-couture.com Props to this company for taking an old, secondhand material and not simply re-using it, but […]
Imagine the design possibilities as physicists figure out how the rules of how any flexible solid collapses: collapsable ski boots, single-piece camping tents, robots that can squeeze through small spaces. What would you make? http://www.nature.com/news/extreme-mechanics-buckling-down-1.11127
