Posted in Adaptable, Design, Fabricate, Materials, Physical on Feb 5th, 2008 Write a comment »
What would happen if your toothbrush could mate with another toothbrush?
Would you end up with an even better toothbrush - the best of both toothbrushes? How about if your toothbrush mates with 5, 10 or 15 different toothbrushes, with each new toothbrush in turn mating with another new toothbrush?
If you could decide which toothbrushes get […]
Posted in Adaptive, Fabricate, General, Materials, Personal, Physical on Jan 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
To those of you who voted in the poll about HCI tutorials, thank you. To those who didn’t bother (there’s still time) I mutter a future curse: May all your solar panels develop self-awareness and go on strike.
Anyhow, previously I touched upon the idea of objects and tools that enable us to more […]
Posted in Differences, Fabricate, Materials, Personal, Physical on May 15th, 2007 Write a comment »
Ooooh the 2007 World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization (MCPC) should make your earwax melt from idea overload. I reckon I might try and get along.
On Donal Reddington’s excellent MadeForOne.com website Mass Customization is defined as “enabling a customer to decide the exact specification of a product or service, and have that product or […]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Fabricate, Materials, Personal, Physical on May 11th, 2007 Write a comment »
Recently I came across JennyLC’s Intimate Controllers project (via the always interesting we-make-money-not-art). She writes that the project involved “building game controllers into undergarments so that games are played through players physically touching one another. The goal of this project was to research and create objects that challenge the traditional notions and orientation of video […]
Posted in Design, Fabricate, Link Bucket, Physical on Mar 8th, 2007 Write a comment »
Bill Cockayne’s talk (mp3) at Design 2.0 on enabling engineer designers to be big picture / future thinkers. Found via pasta and vinegar.
A very funny spoof paper discussing “The Etiology & Treatment of Childhood“. Found via Mind Hacks.
ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design is a small follow up related to yesterdays post about Personal Fabrication. Its a […]
Posted in Fabricate, Physical on Mar 7th, 2007 Write a comment »
Have a listen to the talk Neil Gershenfeld from The Center for Bits and Atoms gave about Personal Fabrication (video, audio) at TED in 2006. If streaming media ain’t your thing there’s an old interview with him on The Edge.
You could also wander around the Fab Labs Out Reach website, which details efforts to […]
Hi my name is Mike Bennett & I'm a HCI researcher, interaction designer + hacker. In this blog I explore design, cognitive & vision science, art, psychology, physiology, nanotech, perception, materials, etc, that enable anyone to shape their own user experiences... more
