Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jul 18th, 2008 Write a comment »
Think Nintendo’s Wii is deliciously haptic? Then click over to Exertion Interfaces: Sports over a distance for social bonding and fun. Checkout their Table Tennis for Three website and video, where three friends in different parts of the world play table tennis together. I wonder have they built their Remote Impact - Shadowboxing over a […]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jun 20th, 2008 Write a comment »
Neat video showing off a 360 degree 3D display created by researchers from the Graphics Lab at University of Southern California. More details can be found on their website and in their SIGGRAPH 2007 paper.
Read about Buckminster Fuller - architect, inventor, innovator, designer, futurist.
Evolution at work Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab.
User Designer […]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on May 13th, 2008 Write a comment »
Fashionable Technology is a just released book on The interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, and fashion, design and science is a highly promising and topical subject. Offered here is a compact survey of the theory involved and an explanation of the role technology plays in a fabric or article of clothing. (found via […]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Mar 14th, 2008 Write a comment »
Visit WhiteVoid for a unique website navigation structure. Kind of a fusion between 3D and Zoomable User Interfaces.
We can simulate you. Out Of The Blue is an engaging article about whether a supercomputer can be used to simulate a biologically accurate brain. Sounds like they’re getting real results.
Nanoscale pretty.
We can model you and you and […]
Posted in Adaptable, Adaptive, Design, Differences, Personal, Physical on Mar 12th, 2008 Write a comment »
Have you ever gotten into one of those silly arguments about the colour of something? You know where you’re sure that a t-shirt is red, while your friend is 100% sure its redish yellow. Frustrating isn’t it.
Strange as it is, both of you can be utterly right.
You both “see” a slightly different colour because of […]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Feb 12th, 2008 Write a comment »
I’m curled up with a bug and head cold so today I’m posting a Link Bucket instead of the normal long Tuesday post. Enjoy.
Looks Tasty - see the world with your tongue.
For the last few years I’ve been keeping my eye on the emerging transdisciplinary field of Augmented Cognition. On the AugCog website it is […]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Differences, Personal, Physical on Jan 22nd, 2008 Write a comment »
Isn’t it strange the way faces look so different? Yet we easily recognise that a face is a face. Imagine waking up tomorrow and everyone’s face has disappeared. Each face is replaced with a blank unexpressive blob. Don’t worry about the eating, seeing, speaking and breathing bits - in this brave new faceless world we […]
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
