Learning not only about technology but how to implement your ideas

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The Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative
language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the work of the Critical Engineer to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence. The Critical Engineer considers any technology depended upon to be both a challenge and a threat. The Critical Engineer recognizes that each work of engineering engineers its user, proportional to that user’s dependency upon it.

Digital Aesthetics Research Center (DARC) is committed to research the relationship of art and aesthetics to the culture and future development of information technology.

LEAP supports the advancement of experimental
artistic pratice and production in the area of emerging
technologies and performance.

LEAP is an innovative interdisciplinary project that
forges dynamic relationships connecting Art, Science
and Technology.

The Degrowth movement advocates for the downscaling of production and
consumption as they lie at the root of long term environmental issues and social inequalities.

Predator: A Smart Camera that Learns

The alternative game system for truly hands-on play.

His Videoplace, developed in the mid-1970s, but with work continuing through the late 1980s, was a pioneering creation of full-body interactivity and virtual environments.

XS Labs is a design research studio with a focus on innovation in the fields of electronic textiles and reactive garments: “second skins” that can enable computationally-mediated interactions with the environment and the individual. 

Applying both business strategy and design methods, we craft custom innovation solutions for our clients across the globe. Ishac worked there.

Developer of procedural LOVE game

A place for us to share our ideas, tools, and the occasional experiment in Web technology.

A simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.

Nortd Labs is a research and development studio founded in New York City. We generate work in the area of art, architecture, and system design. It is a studio-based incubator of creative thought engaging the overlap between science and design.

Self-knowledge through numbers. [...] It might seem that we're simply incapable of reliably tracking our own subjective states, but social scientists solved this problem years ago: Just randomize the time of inquiry. [...] If you want new insights into yourself, you harness the power of countless observations of small incidents of change—incidents that used to vanish without a trace. And if you want to test an idea about human nature in general, you aggregate those sets of individual observations into a population study.

The only meter that rewards children for consistent testing. Having a meter that motivates kids to test and provides easy accuracy is a simple win.

"we're entering a new era, the post-Internet age, a world in which the Net will be everywhere, like the air we breathe, and we'll take it for granted"

Head of design direction for service and user-interface design at Nokia.

A multi-touch mouse emulator for the multi-user DiamondTouch table from Circle Twelve.

A peek at the upcoming design documentary "Objectified"

First, I don’t think we have touch screens yet. I think we just have “point screens.” [...] Pointing, like with a mouse or digitizing pen, is just pointing. There’s no functional difference between poking at the air and sliding your finger across a smooth glass screen. Touch on the other hand gives you some sort of feedback. You can feel the presence of a button, and when you press it get a response that you’ve actually moved it. [...] Things like calling pointing on glass “touch” when there is no feedback I think lead to confusion over expectations and future terminology. Now we’ll have to explain what “haptics” means, and since that will probably launch in some half-assed manner, we’ll have to come up with yet another term for “really good haptics” later on still.

ON THE FUTURE OF INVENTION.

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Legimi to darmowe oprogramowanie obsługujące proces dostarczania i aktualizacji płatnych i bezpłatnych treści na czytniki elektronicznego papieru. Podstawowymi składnikami są: aplikacja kliencka instalowana na e-czytniku oraz aplikacja serwerowa dostępna przez Internet.

Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required

MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results. "Personale expression through technology". "Local solutions to local problems."

There are many ways and thoughts on how a FabLab can be used. They can be used for education, research but aslo function as a form of community center. At the moment there is probably not one single lab that functions in exakt the same way as another lab in the world.

This blog is submitted as a 2000 word essay for the Art and New Media option of an MA in Art Practice and Education at BCU, Birmingham City University, UK.

Future Perfect is about the collision of people, society and technology, drawing on issues related to the design research that I conduct in part, on behalf of my employer - Nokia.

"Does human’s need give birth to new technology or does technology give birth to new needs?"

The device has a large number of red OLEDs embedded into a plastic sticking plaster, like an illuminated band aid. When it's fixed to the skin above a skin cancer tumor it sends extremely bright red light into the skin. When the light from the OLEDs reaches the cells, it then destroys them.

PapierCraft: A Command System for Interactive Paper

Closing the gap between paper and computers. Digital pen allows you to annotate printed documents and download the annotations to you .doc afterwards.

Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society.

The Pulse smartpen records and links audio to what you write, so you never miss a word.

The "Windows Home Concept"

Microsoft's Smart Home

Microsoft's Vision for the Home of the Future.

Marcin Ignac’s thoughts on mixing technology with art and design.

Communications of the ACM

In the year 2015... Mediascape

Now we have millions of eyes all connected to a real time micro broadcast messaging platform via a mobile device they have with them at all times, and a social eagerness to demonstrate primacy. # Cultural latency is dropping to [almost] zero, at least in the more connected parts of the world. # Diminished cultural latency means that the propagation of information is so fast that the spread itself becomes the defining aspect of the system: the rate-of-spread becomes as important as the information itself. # The information age is only just beginning.

Touch is a research project that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and physical things. We are developing applications and services that enable people to interact with everyday objects and situations through their mobile devices.

Redefine the world of performance motorcycles. Build a zero emissions vehicle with a definitive new style and enough performance to beat gasoline. Prove to the world that the future of performance is electric.