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 Apr 18th, 2008 Write a comment »
Sensisphere is a multitouch hemispherical display that lets you drag, move, push and pull digitial things with your hands. Pop over to YouTube and see it in action. Scientists have created an entire synthetic genome. Another important step towards making biological nanobot “machines”, which would be extremely useful as smart malleable materials. Very very blog [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Mar 20th, 2008 Write a comment »
More sketching Phun. Another very pretty sketching “game” like those I mentioned in Sketch & Draw = Create & Design Interactive “Things” and Link Bucket: Crayon Physics, Optical Illusions, Design Is & Rocky Origins. (thanks Ross) Design lovely – 16 of the Most Extreme & Modern Beds You’ll Ever See. Especially relevant to User Designer [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Feb 29th, 2008 Write a comment »
Florian Kräutli has designed and created malleable magnetic curtains that retain their shape. Clunky elegance. Embodied Cognition “is a growing research program in cognitive science that emphasizes the formative role the environment plays in the development of cognitive processes.” Learn more about this increasingly important area from this website. (via MindHacks) Gimme gimme one of [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jan 17th, 2008 Write a comment »
Would you like one of these futuristic disappearing car doors? Here’s an online video of it in action. At Ellyssa Kroski’s InfoTangle read about the leading forms of information design and navigation structures for the web. Non-technical and clearly written – perfect. Here’s lookin at you, human. Golan Levin and co’s art piece Opto-isolator is [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Dec 20th, 2007 Write a comment »
Want a seat that’ll be there when you need it? Watch this neat design concept video of an interactive seat which follows you around! (via core77) Have a look at Yahoo’s Design Innovation Team project website for some interesting visualisations and interactive concepts. we make money not art writes about creating art with living materials. [...]
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 [...]
Hi my name is Mike Bennett & I'm a HCI / Vision Science postdoc researcher, interaction designer + hacker in the Psychology Dept of Stanford University. 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
