Apple plots course for middle of mobile

It's become quite clear over the last several months that Apple is ready to bridge the mobile computing gap, with plans to develop a device that fits somewhere in between the iPhone and the MacBook. A recent Wall Street Journal article proclaimed that during his medical leave, CEO Steve Jobs has been working on that midsized mobile device, bigger than an iPhone but smaller than a MacBook.

Read the full arcticle at: CNET News

QR-code design gets beautifull

"The world famous psychedelic-anime artist Takashi Murakami shocked the world in 2003, when he and Mark Jacobs designed the colorful ‘MONOCHROME MULTICOLOR’ series for Louis Vuitton. ‘SUPERFLAT MONOGRAM’, the promotion video for that series, became one of the most remarkable pieces of advertising art of the 21th century…

…Therefore Murakami created a new promo animation, called ‘SUPERFLAT FIRST LOVE’ which will be launched on Aprl 28th exclusive on Louis Vuitton’s new mobile site. Access to the site is provided through a revolutionary designed QR- code, which invites to ‘the fantasy world of Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton’."

Read more at the CyberMedia Blog

Swine Flu on Google Maps

View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map

Citysense - location tracking

Citysense is an innovative mobile application for real-time nightlife discovery and social navigation, answering the question, "Where is everybody going right now?"

Citysense shows the overall activity level of the city, top activity hotspots, and places with unexpectedly high activity, all in real-time. Then it links to Yelp and Google to show what venues are operating at those locations. Citysense is a free demonstration of the Macrosense platform that everyone can enjoy.

Citysense - Powered by Sense Networks

Location based communities

via: Video: location based communities - mobilepulse - next mobile trends and news

Future of Making Map [SR-1154] | The Institute For The Future

Download:

• Future of Making Map [SR-1154]

Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences—the “stuff” of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade. An emerging do-it-yourself culture of “makers” is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products they buy. And what they can’t purchase, they build from scratch. Meanwhile, flexible manufacturing technologies on the horizon will change fabrication from massive and centralized to lightweight and ad hoc. These trends sit atop a platform of grassroots economics—new market structures developing online that embody a shift from stores and sales to communities and connections.

The Institute For The Future

3sat neues

Sendung am 26.04.2009
Die Themen der Sendung:
- Interface Design
- Virtuelle Benutzeroberflächen
- Augmented Reality
- Internetsperren
3sat.Mediathek - Video: Sendung am 26.04.2009 (neues, 24/04/09)

Mobile Phone Development

Mobile Phone Development - Betavine Social Exchange: "Stephen Wolak from Vodafone Group R&D has contacted me about Betavine Social Exchange. Stephen is a great believe in crowdsourcing , so much so, he has crowdsourced the requirements for Betavine Social Exchange."

Google SearchWiki

Google SearchWiki: "Google's experiment that allows users to vote and annotate search results is back and this time it has a name: Google SearchWiki. Justin Hileman is one of the lucky people who has access to the experimental feature: 'Things are a bit smoother this time. Moving results is a nice, polished animation. I can't wait for more community features to show up.'"

50 great examples of infographics

FrancescoMugnai.com

Reactable - Reactable

Reactable - Reactable: "Reactable"

MEX: The PMN Mobile User Experience Conference

Agenda of the conference:

• Manifesto #3: Customer research methodology must be enhanced to close the reality gap
• The delicate art of balancing commercial imperative and user experience
• Achieving great tactile experience is a subtle art
• The next billion customers are already here
• User interface design is key to leadership in application stores
• Investment in input and display modalities must increase
• Changing economics will facilitate increased diversity in handset portfolios
• Location data forms an integral part of user experience

MEX: 5th Mobile User Experience Conference
19th - 20th May 2009 Where
WallaceSpace, London
Only for £ 1.499 ;-)

MEX: The PMN Mobile User Experience Conference & Awards

Google’s Answer to Facebook: Profile Search

Google’s Answer to Facebook: Profile Search: "This afternoon Google posted about a new feature which enables users to search for “me” to find their own Google profiles. Google recently upgraded their profile features but the company is now investing heavily in making profiles a more integrated part of search. Want to find somebody on the web? If they’ve set up their Google profile properly, they will show up in a box that displays profile results (as pictured below)."

see #4 - Livestreams

All Lifestreams form the see conference are online now:

• Welcome bei Scholz & Volkmer
• Prof. Gerhard Roth - Inside Outsite
• Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen Design - Maps Mashing
• Julian Oliver - Mapping & Augmended Reality
• Gijs Joosen - Architectural Design, Gijs Joosen, Oml -Part.2
• Sebastian Oschatz, Meso Design - Touchscreen Concepts
• Aaron Koblin, Goolge Labs - Media Artist

Phylotaxis

Phylotaxis / for Seed by Jonathan Harris / About: "Phylotaxis is an exploration of the space where science meets culture.

Its structure, derived from the Fibonacci Sequence and closely related to the Golden Ratio, is one of nature's most elegant. The Fibonacci Sequence is the set of numbers where each number is the sum of the previous two numbers. This simple sequence governs phenomena as diverse as the petal arrangement of roses, the breeding patterns of rabbits, and the shape of our galaxy. It is also evident in the design of the Great Pyramids, the composition of the Mona Lisa, and the construction of Stradivarius violins."

see #4 | Additional links: Aaron Koblin

Aaron Koblin's personal page.

Flight pattern
The Flight Patterns visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.

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Bicycle Built for Two Thousand
2.088 voice recordings collected from online workers assembled into the song "Daisy Bell" - the first example of computer synthesized vocals. Each individual was prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard without knowledge of the final task. A collaboration with Daniel Massey.

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House of Cards
Lasers and sensors are used to scan the band Radiohead into a three-dimensional particle-driven data experience. The code and data are launched on Google Code as an open source "music video without video" project.

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New York Talk Exchange
Visualizations for the New York Talk Exchange, a project by the Senseable City Lab at MIT for the MoMA.
New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of AT&T long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world.

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More projects can be found at his portfolio.

see #4 | Additional links: Sebastian Oschatz

- George Michael Live25 Visuals
- MESO - EnBW EnergyGlobe
- Data Exploration Table for CDW
- BASF World Globe

More projects can be viewed on www.meso.net.

see #4 | Additional links: Julian Oliver

Historic and recent maps:

Missing data from Bagdad on google-maps:

Größere Kartenansicht

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Packet Garden
Create places from peoples data - email, im, images visualized as packets.

PacketGarden Demo from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.

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Augmented Reality
- History: Projected ghost
- Optical illusions

Level Head

levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.

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The artvertiser

The Artvertiser is an urban, hand-held, augmented-reality project exploring on-site substitution of advertising content for the purposes of exhibiting art. The project was initiated by Julian Oliver in February 2008 and is being developed in collaboration with artists Clara Boj and Diego Diaz.

Augmenting a Postcard from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.

see #4 | Additional links: Eric Rodenbeck

From Eric Rodenbeck, stamen design:

First time of Datavisualisation
Bird Flight by Etiene Jules Marey, 1882

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Data information projects:
The 1k Project

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The 1k Project II

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Cloudmade
CloudMade help you make the most of map data. We source our maps from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world. Our aims are to continue the democratization of geo data and to expand access to open geo data through a range of simple yet powerful tools and APIs.
Cloudmade - Customade Maps

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Cabspotting
Cabspotting traces San Francisco's taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay Area. The patterns traced by each cab create a living and always-changing map of city life. This map hints at economic, social, and cultural trends that are otherwise invisible. The Exploratorium has invited artists and researchers to use this information to reveal these "Invisible Dynamics."
www.cabspotting.org/

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Digg Labs
The labs provide a broader (and deeper) view of Digg. A lot of stuff gets submitted to Digg every day, so good things can sometimes fly right past you. Labs projects look beneath the surface of the Digg community's activities.
Labs projects are the results of collaboration with Digg partner stamen design. We've also released a public API for Digg so that anyone can turn Digg data into their own visualizations.
http://labs.digg.com/

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SFMOMA Artscope
The SFMOMA Artscope is a visual browsing tool that allows to explore more than 3500 artworks in the collection.
http://www.sfmoma.org/projects/artscope/

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LOCOG
A new map for LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games). The project organizes of the thousands of geocoded articles and photos that the London 2012 team are producing, highlight the ongoing works in the Olympic Park, London and the UK, and showcases the depth and breadth of information available on the main site.
http://london2012.com/

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Oakland Crimespotting
Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities.
If you hear sirens in your neighborhood, you should know why. Crimespotting makes this possible with interactive maps, e-mail updates, and RSS feeds of crimes in areas that you care about.
We’ve found ourselves frustrated by the proprietary systems and long disclaimers that ultimately limit information available to the public. As citizens we have a right to public information. A clear understanding of our environment is essential to an informed citizenry.
http://Crimespotting.org

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Many Eyes
Many Eyes is an “open laboratory” for exploring the intersection of data visualization and user generated content. The folks at CUE have made available an application (or set of applications) which create on-the-fly visualizations of data sets that users of the site can upload. On the site’s about page, the group states its objective as the enabling of “a new social kind of data analysis.”
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com

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More Links & Projects:
Jason Salavon
The Stamen Design-Blog

see #4 | Additional links: Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhardt Roth

Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhardt Roth on Wikipedia (german).

Visuelle Wahrnehmung

Clippings.reblog: September 2004

Clippings.reblog: September 2004

see conference #4 - summary

On April 18th we visited the see conference #4 in Wiesbaden, a get together of all kind of information-design interested people, organized by the design agency Scholz & Volkmer.

At 10am the doors were opened and an hour later Michael Volkmer welcomed the audience to the fourth edition of the event.

He briefly inducted the audience into the idea behind the conference as a platform of reflection on a topic that he defines as the gain of knowledge through the aggregation of images. Also he pointed up the importance of visualiziation of data in world of continously increasing complexity.

Using the example of a poster on «Virtual Water» done at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany in 2007 he emphasized the power of visual formulations to reveal hidden processes and to help understanding them. He noted that even it's too wide a subject to outline the topic within the short time of a conference like the see, they each time anew try to present at least the more experimental approaches to handling information visually.

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Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard Roth

Every see conference starts with a kind of keynote. This time it was given by Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard Roth of the University of Bremen. His lecture was titled «Outer World, Inner Images» and focused on the way visual perception works and how our brain combines visual impression with saved information taken from our memory to speed up the classification of the seen image.


A very interesting journey through human brain which bit by bit discloses its secrets of perception mechanisms to science. At last all scientific examination still fails on answering the final question for the who – the one who's actually experiencing any sensation.

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Eric Rodenbeck

Eric Rodenbeck of San Francisco-based Stamen Design followed. He held his lecture on «Abundant Screens Reaching Through Maps and Live Visualization». In some selected examples he demonstrated how his team experimented with gathering information in urban areas and visualizing them in the form of projections onto maps. A more ironic example like the one above that shows the geographical accumulation of women in Manhattan who make more than $ 100.000 points out the problem of information overlays hiding the map's geographic data.

Another interesting aspect of those visualizations was the side effect that technical errors thereselves sometimes lead to new conclusions. In the example shown above the recorded GPS signals of cabs were reflected by the higher buildings at some sites in San Francisco. In these areas the delivered position information was very imprecise. Instead of showing the exact course of the roads clouds of dots appear in the visualization. This inexactness as a visual statement suggests a local change of cityscape in these areas.

Eric's company Stamen also works in context of the Olympics 2012 in London. They did a map solution to provide an overview of the different venues. But as these sport facilities are still under construction and continuously changing the team couldn't just fall back on data offered by services like Google Maps. So they combined the given data in the form of abstract map information with a concrete image layer of continually updated satellite pictures. So the progress at the construction sites can successively be tracked.

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Julian Oliver

Madrid-based software artist, inventor, teacher and occasional writer Julian Oliver also came up with several of his latest projects. One of these is Packet Garden.

It's a visualization tool that shows the origin and type of network data packets sent and received by the computer the software is run on. On a globe the origins of the packets are displayed. Downloads result in little valleys, uploads form mountains. The packets themselves are visualized by plants which grow with the amount of data traffic. The plants vary depending on the type of application they were induced by. So the users

… can grow a unique garden world as a graph of their daily network traffic.

I found this nice Packet Garden demo video on vimeo:

Another field of activity of Julian is so-called augmented reality – the computer-based expansion of our perception of reality. The most approaches work with markers which are placed in the real world. A camera captures a real-time video stream of the marked space and a software uses the markers to align virtual 3d data to the video image. Finally the virtual objects seem to be placed right into the real world. Julian experimented a lot with these techniques and developed an augmented reality game named LevelHead in 2006. It's based on three cubes a walking man is to be led through by turning the cubes in front of a camera as it can be watched in the video below.

Of course using markers isn't the most favorable solution to make the computer familiar with the space in front of his mechanical eye. Currently Julian is testing a method that uses a laser to gather 3d information of a room by capturing spots in space and calculating the change of perspective from the changes of distances and positions of the spots in relation to a sensor. The very impressive video on the laser tracking technology Julian screened during his talk can be watched here.

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Gijs Joosen

Many of the guys who were speaking at the see #4 told they had been thinking about studying architecture at least once in their early years. But Gijs Joosen was the only real architect on board. It was no suprise that he mainly talked about the design processes behind the last projects of his studio ONL.

It's obvious that visualization is an important aspect of an architect's work to communicate his ideas and to have three-dimensional visual data to reflect on design decisions. Gijs demonstrated how particular design challenges were solved by using special software to work on the concepts directly in their visual depiction.

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Sebastian Oschatz

Sebastian Oschatz works for MESO, a design team for digital media and media systems based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and holds several teaching assignments at German universities.

He presented some impressions of MESO projects like the one they did for the German chemical company BASF. For an internal congress they installed a big globe in the entrance hall of the location where the event took place. By several video projectors the geographical information was displayed on the sphere. On top of it all current business activities of the company all over the world were marked.


The digital enviroments and media installations Sebastian and his colleagues created to make information and abstract data easily accessible and tangible were also very impressive. Finally he talked about the visual programming language vvvv and showed some examples to demonstrate how vvvv can be used to build and control massive media systems.

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Aaron Koblin

As we believe in the sophisticated Google propaganda Aaron Koblin must have one of the greatest jobs possible. Imagine him as a boy of five years who was allowed to live in a toy store. Aaron works at the Google Creative Lab in San Francisco. So I honestly don't think he has to really care about the usual limitations of time or funding while he is experimenting with data and visualization techniques.

As the final speaker at the see #4 he talked about projects like the making of the great video for the song «House of Cards» by the band Radiohead we both admire. The video was done without any cameras. All images where created from 3d data captured by different laser scanners. The video and its making-of can be watched below.

He also came up with projects like the visualizations done for the New York Talk Exchange with the Senseable City Lab at the MIT. Another experiment that made me smile was the conversion of the viewer levels of different TV channels into audio data. The patterns vary depending on the type content shown on the particular channel. So a soap opera channel clearly differs in its sound from a news channel like CNN. I wonder what the sound waves displayed for Playboy TV (last line in the image below) do suggest!?

(Text & Images by Visual attitudes)

Re-Thinking Design Conference

The breakdowns we are currently experiencing in the world are enough to alarm even the hardiest of souls. Sitting back and watching is simply no longer an option. Re-thinking ... Design is an opportunity for the community of smart designers to collaborate on the leadership role that Design should take to shape our future. We will examine how Design thinking is becoming a change agent for transforming the deep fissures in our cultural and business systems, and creating emerging opportunities to elevate the impact of our contributions.…

Idea exchanges include:
> Re-Thinking design and organizational transformation
> Re-Thinking the design of social networking
> Re-Thinking design consultancies: scope, convergence and fertile ground
> Re-Thinking business
> Re-Thinking client / customer relationships
> Re-Thinking and Re-designing business strategy
> Re-Thinking design 40 years into the future
> Re-Thinking environmental design

DMI Conferences - Design/Management/Brand 21 Conference

3D immersion technology

Amazing 3D immersion technology from IDEO Labs on Vimeo.
IDEO Labs - Amazing 3D immersion technology

see conference #4

Eine Zusammenfassung der gelungenen Konferenz gibts bei: see conference #4 | Slanted - Typo Weblog und Magazin

The Future Of Interface Design | Design Reviver

DesignReviver (via @blogblog) has compiled a categorial list of aspects that drive future UI development:
- Better and more intuitive devices interaction
- Everyday devices connected to the Internet
- Multi-touch, without touching the screen
- Interactive and intuitive user interfaces for better browsing
- Gesture based interfaces
- Interfaces aware of context
- New materials that will influence UI
Read more: The Future Of Interface Design | Design Reviver: "The Future Of Interface Design"

(via buntgetrieben)

I phone

via Pieratt - i"Phone"

CamSpace

CamSpace.com: Kiss Your Keyboard, Mouse & Joystick Goodbye! Play Games With Your WebCam!

Conference phones suck.

"That’s what nearly everyone told us when we started talking to them about how they used their phones—often specially-designed, very expensive phones—for conference calls. We knew this, of course, since we’ve used and disliked them before ourselves (and probably you have too). That’s why we decided to design a new VOIP conference phone for small businesses."

Product Concept: Touchscreen Conference Phone:

Real life objects

Swinxs, the incredible new game console!

Discover a whole new world with SWINXS together with your friends and family. Swinxs is a high-tech games console, sustainably designed for active games you can play inside or outdoors. The unique XS-wristband gives you access to a new world to play games, listen to music, experience exciting adventures and make fantasies reality. Swinxs is never boring! Connect your Swinxs to your computer and on your own Swinxs page you can, as well as many other things, keep track of your scores and download new games.

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Sniff
A game for all, based on the Memory principle
Sniff is a game that is equally well suited for sighted and non-sighted children. The basic idea involves a cuddly toy, Sniff, which contains an RFID (radio-frequency identification) reader.

http://www2.norway.or.jp/NR/rdonlyres/7F09692D-6927-4B9E-8879-88ED0EFFBCB3/91022/Sniff400.jpg

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Do you poken?

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WineM, a smart wine rack

WineM is an information tracking system that makes all wine information always accessible and updatable. It knows what wine is in the rack, and where it is, without requiring you to consult paper logs or spreadsheets. A custom walnut radio frequency tag uniquely identifies each bottle, while readers in every cell locate it.

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The internet of things - Tikitag Touchatech
The technology that tikitag takes advantage of to establish this connection is Near Field Communications Technology (NFC) - an evolution of RFID that connects electronic devices over short distances. The market for NFC is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. Market consultancy Strategy Analytics projects that by 2012 around 250 million NFC-enabled phones will be sold worldwide. (read more)

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Brio Networkers

Who’s living behind the screens? BRIO Network is an original world of rail play that features the imaginary creatures who live inside your computer. They drive super-cool vehicles around the tracks. They can listen to their messages and interact in fun, new ways. Though the networkers are inspired by the computer world, you do not need a computer to play with them.

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An of course
- Mirror: A mirror that makes your Objects come alive
- nabaztag: A Rabbit that keeps you in touch with everything
- ztamp:s - Stamps that make your Objects come alive
by www.violet.net


(via http://tangiblix.blogspot.com/)

Object-based media

"This is a prototype of an iPhone media player that uses physical objects to control media playback. It is based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) that triggers various iPhone interactions when in the range of a wireless tag embedded inside a physical object."


iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo.

iPhone RFID: object-based media

The Touch project is based at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design and funded by the Research Council of Norway.

Some Student-blogs
http://creativeexperiencesnorway.blogspot.com/
http://gubo.wordpress.com/
http://newconstruct.wordpress.com/
http://slothfulinteractions.blogspot.com/2009/02/mood-cup-prototyping.html
http://www.carlssondesign.no/ti08/
http://www.nearfield.org/2008/02/teaching-touch-ii

Babel Tales

V1 GALLERY artist

(via blindfische.blogspot.com)

How to clean your dorm room in thirty seconds!

Physical pixels - Industrial design is the new interface design

Read full-article: Physical pixels: design for the not so near future - Core77

See conference speakers: Sebastian Oschatz

MESO Digital Interiors GmbH, Frankfurt

- Video-Tracking Software, vvvv.org/tiki-index.php

Hochschulprojekt in Gruppenarbeit, Dozent: Sebastian Oschatz/ MESO
Keine Mäuse: Wie bekommt man elektronische Medien weg vom Bildschirm, weg vom Klickefinger und zurück auf den Boden und hinein in den Raum?
SCHALLPLATTEN ist ein Drum-Computer, der rein grafisch durch das Legen von Mustern funktioniert. An dem tischgroßen Instrument können spielerisch mittels Plastikplättchen gemeinsam Rhythmen gestaltet werden. Per Video-Tracking (VVVV) und MIDI werden die Sounds in Echtzeit angesteuert, abgespielt und je nach Lage der Plättchen verändert. Über eine installierte Polaroid Kamera können die gelegten Muster anaolg gespeichert und an der zweiten Station wieder aufgelegt, eingelesen und digital geremixt werden.
(Idee / Konzept / Ausführung / Design / Sounddesign / in Zusammenarbeit mit Sebastian Pforr, Jennifer Schaper und Jan Snippen / Mit Unterstützung von Sebastian Oschatz, MESO digital interior

See conference speakers: Gijs Joosen

ONL Rotterdam
Gijs Joosen vom holländischen Architekturbüro ONL (Oosterhuis_Lénárd) referiert zum Thema "Architecture = Information". Er wird Entwurfsmethoden zeigen, die auf Game Engines basieren. Und über Realtime-Datenerfassungstechniken sprechen, die es Gebäuden ermöglichen in Echtzeit auf Wünsche und Neigungen ihrer Nutzer zu reagieren.

See conference speakers: Julian Oliver

Software Künstler, Madrid

Level head


The Artvertiser

The Artvertiser: Augmented Billboards. from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.

See conference speakers: Eric Rodenbeck

Stamen Design, San Francisco



- http://labs.digg.com/, http://origin.arstechnica.com/journals/apple.media/DiggLabsArc.jpg
- http://labs.digg.com/swarm/, http://www.seomoz.org/user_files/2006/digg_swarm_screenshot3.jpg
- http://oakland.crimespotting.org, http://infosthetics.com/archives/oakland_crimespotting3.jpg
- Hurricane tracker, http://mike.teczno.com/img/hurricane-tracker.jpg

See conference speakers: Aaron Koblin

Google Creative Lab, San Francisco



- Ten Thousand Cents, http://www.ehrensenf.de/files/linktipps/TenThousandCents.jpg
- The Sheepmarket, http://www.onscreenmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/sheepmarket.jpg

- Radiohead - House of Cards
In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards", no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

iPhone Samples

Heute wollen wir euch auf die groupaware-Beispiele sowie das von tuaw ausgegrabene Video zur schönere Touch-Navigation schicken. Bei groupaware.mobi gibt es etliche Code-Beispiele zur schöneren Gestaltung von Button, Listen und Schriftarten. Komplett iPhone-optimiert lassen sich die Samples hier durchklicken, bei Bedarf reicht ein Blick in den Quellcode - um ähnliche Feature in die eigene Seite zu integrieren.

iPhone Samples
myDailyPhoto - iPhone Safari Flick Navigation

Via Beispielcode für Web-App Entwickler (Video)

Winner of the Personal Visualization Project is… | FlowingData

Winner of the Personal Visualization Project is… | FlowingData:

"While I enjoyed all the entries (and I hope you all enjoyed making them), there can only be one winner. The winner is Tim Graham who took manual personal data collection to another level. From email spam, to beverage consumption, to aches and pains, Tim embraced the spirit of self-surveillance. He even made his personal data available in the forums. Congratulations, Tim!"

RjDj: A mind twisting hearing sensation

RjDj: A mind twisting hearing sensation

Asus' nifty keyboard interface

via Asus' nifty keyboard interface - Core77

Vodafone Mobile Clicks

Vodafone Mobile Clicks from Marlooz on Vimeo.

Vodafone Mobile Clicks is an international, high profile contest for the best mobile internet startup. The best mobile internet startup is selected by a professional jury in three different jury rounds.

The main reason for the existence of Vodafone Mobile Clicks is to accelerate the innovation in the mobile internet sector in the UK and the Netherlands.

After last years success in the Netherlands, this years' event will be extended with the startups and presence of the UK. Additionally, we have raised the prize money from 100.000 euros up to 150.000 euros! You can imagine that all the ingredients above will result in a memorable and international mobile experience for all people involved.

Vodafone Mobile Clicks

iphone on Multitouch-Table

iPhone-Spiele auf Multitouch-Tisch

Ubiq'window | The Future Is Transparent

Touchless interactivity is the new frontier

View more presentations from LM3LABS.

Ubiq'window provides accurate interactivity to any flat surface like shop windows, showroom walls.

Despite the buzz about multi-touch, this technology evolution is not a challenge and it should have grown earlier if legacy OS editors, as well as input device manufacturers, had got more vision.

Now, we cannot really blame them, multi-touch makes sense with multi-media content only. And we are just at the dawn of the multi-media era.

The real frontier in today’s interactivity is touchless interactivity. It is the real challenge as it requires a perfect control of changing environment, precision optoelectronics, 3D algorithms.

We re-worked the presentation about Ubiq’window, today’s only real mass production tool for touchless interactivity.

LM3LABS - Ubiq'window | The Future Is Transparent

Free Air interactivity with AirStrike

Free Air interactivity with PC thanks to AirStrike from LM3LABS from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.
Free Air interactivity with PC thanks to AirStrike from LM3LABS on Vimeo

Virtual Museum

Interactive Museum from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.
More Videos: Nicolas Loeillot's videos on Vimeo

Google Latitude

Google Latitude

Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta

Information Architects � Blog Archive � Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta

Cutting Edge Data Visualisation

The Value of a Facebook Friend?

You may not be able to get a coupon for a digital TV converter box, but if you’re experiencing a bit of bloat on your Facebook friend list, you can snag a free burger by dropping 10 of your Facebook friends, courtesy of Burger King.

That’s the gist of Whopper Sacrifice, an advertising campaign from Burger King to promote a new version of the company’s flagship sandwich called the Angry Whopper. To earn their free burger, users download the Whopper Sacrifice Facebook application and dump 10 unlucky friends deemed to be unworthy of their weight in beef. After completing the purge, users are prompted to enter their addresses and the coupons are sent out via snail mail.

The application sends a note to each of the banished friends, bluntly alerting them that they were abandoned for a free hamburger.

The Value of a Facebook Friend? About 37 Cents - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: "The Value of a Facebook Friend?"

Operas Mimical Interface

Skype for iPhone

Out now:
- Free Skype-to-Skype calls
- Save money with great value calls to landlines and mobiles
- See who’s online and instant message them

From zero to place one in the download-charts: Download Skype for iPhone and iPod touch

Protecting You from Yourself

Here’s an iPhone function we really need. The Bad Decision Blocker (BDB for short) is an iPhone app that will let you block any of your phone’s contacts for a predetermined set of time. It’s in the App Store right now for 99 cents. Tim’s title of his post pretty much nails it: “I got this so i can’t call you when im drunk.”
The BDB: Protecting You from Yourself

Asoziale Netzwerke

Ein Asoziales Netzwerk bauen! Cool ist wer keine Freunde hat und nix shared #fuckbook #assiVZ #Xoffa

Prompt kamen (und kommen immer noch) Vorschläge und Hinweise: Hatebook, alleinr.de, wer-hasst-wen.de, isolatr.com, vzVZ, ghettolog.de,… Zeichnet sich hier ein neuer Trend ab? Endlich mal ein gutes Beispiel für soziales Ideenschmieden durch Microblogging. Finally.

Nachtrag: Aber mal Spass beiseite, dieses ganze Vernetze und Geknüpfe und das Geschmuse Zwonull wird eines Tages in sein Gegenteil umschlagen. Sicher. Es wird auch eine Gegenbewegung auslösen. Wenn sie nicht sogar schon da ist. Leute, die nicht ins gewebbte Netz wollen, gibt es mehr als genug. Mehr als die anderen.

Ein neuer Trend? Asoziale Netzwerke