Posted in General, Link Bucket on Feb 22nd, 2008 Write a comment »
Don’t stress a driver by showing them too much visual information, but how do you know when a driver is getting stressed? Use EEGs to measure brain activity and have the visual displays automatically adapting. Yep, more Augmented Cognition with Brain-Computer Interfaces. Here’s the New Scientist article about the research.
Are you a hacker (maker) or [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jan 24th, 2008 Write a comment »
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)
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Posted in General, Link Bucket on Dec 18th, 2007 Write a comment »
Dear Santa can I have a Dattoo (by frog design) and a Timeflex (from solovyovdesign). More at Top 10 technology wonders that don’t exist yet
A clever kinda crowdsourcing business idea: Low Cost Usability Testing
Scientists have discovered a second light-sensing system in the human eye that tells your body whether its day or night.
Got [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Nov 27th, 2007 Write a comment »
Any ideas how you would use Living Glass? Reminds me of the Tanaka Auto Door.
Pod-a-licious: Talking Robots: The Podcast on Robotics and A.I. has lots of very interesting audio interviews with researchers who are deeply into flying insect robots, robot brains & emotions, bionic design, robot & human teams, etc, etc.
Some good introductory tutorials on [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jul 11th, 2007 Write a comment »
Oh dear, battle of the brain! This is one of those makes you blink very interesting ideas: Do the neurons in a baby’s brain compete against each other in a Darwinian fashion?
On idealist you can read about lots of (possible) inventions or share your ideas and creativity. I’d like to get my hands on one [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on May 23rd, 2007 Write a comment »
How well do you know your mind? Watch this great example of colour changing cards. Did you spot them? More fun from Prof Richard Wiseman via Quirkology.
Helvetica sounds like a fascinating documentary by Gary Hustwit about “typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its [...]
Posted in Adaptive, Personal on Mar 27th, 2007 Write a comment »
Here’s a great TED talk by Dan Gilbert where he talks about Synthetic versus Natural Happiness. “Natural Happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted. Synthetic Happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted.”
During the talk he discusses the implications of some experiments which demonstrate that giving [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Virtual on Mar 5th, 2007 Write a comment »
Scoble’s two interviews with Ning co-founders (Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen) are interesting: Social Networking with Ning, version 2.0 and Build your own social space with Ning, version 2.
I haven’t played with Ning (yet) but based on the video and from reading around it sounds like the commoditization of software infrastructures for social software.
The implications [...]
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
