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 […]
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Alan Kay, all round Human Computer Interaction (and much more) thinker, talks at TED about how good programming can sharpen our picture. His unique software lets children learn by doing, but also learn by computing and creating lessons themselves.
Learn about traffic waves. You’ll never be bored sitting in traffic again. (found at Population of One)
May […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Lovely overview about The History Of Visual Communication.
A bunch of interviews with User Experience pioneers.
Can you touch it? Workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for displays (thanks Aaron). Invent a new interaction technique for the likes of Microsoft’s Surface and the DiamondTouch.
Can you sing it? World’s First HCI Rap
Chill out and sketch a personal kaleidoscope. […]
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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 […]
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Tune your ears (listen) to Donald Norman, deep thinker about the implications of cognitive psychology for usability / HCI / design, getting interviewed by Peter Merholz. (found at putting people first)
Flybot - read about Harvard University’s microrobotic fly. Visit Prof. Robert Wood’s Harvard Microrobotics Lab website. (thanks to Baz for the suggestion)
5 Alternative Ways to […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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