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 Adaptable, Design, Materials, Physical on Nov 21st, 2007 Write a comment »
Last week the New York Times had a very interesting article Led by Robots, Roaches Abandon Instincts. The article discussed José Halloy and co’s research where by “using robotic roaches (they) were able to persuade real cockroaches to do things that their instincts told them were not the best idea”, aka social bug peer pressure […]
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 Adaptable, Materials, Physical on Apr 5th, 2007 Write a comment »
Imagine clothes that fit you perfectly. No need to get measured and fitted by a tailor. By plugging your new trousers into an electronic gadget you can change the size, shape and style of the clothes. There’s no need to cut and stitch.
Shape-memory alloys (SMA) are woven into the fabric. The SMAs change shape when […]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Home, Materials, Physical on Mar 15th, 2007 Write a comment »
Run, don’t walk, and watch video 1 and video 2 about Chishen Chiu’s FlexibleLove experimental furniture.
The seat has drawn lots of attention in the blogsphere over the last few weeks. I wonder what draws people’s attention to it? Are they interested because the seat is different? Do they imagine how they’d use the seat in […]
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
