I know we’ve all seen plenty of blogs devoted to one thing a day [one recipe, one photograph, one new idea]. But 01Mathery keep inspiring me with their sheer energy and playfulness—they’re a team of two young designers, hacking and designing one new object every day. Here’s the Extrasound—photos below. And I couldn’t embed the … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Steve Hoefer’s Hand Lights
Steve Hoefer, at Grathio Labs, created these DIY hand lights. Obvious applications for those with low vision, but also to any of us observing and manipulating the world’s minutiae. Here’s the video how-to at Instructables. via Kevin at Cool Tools. Continue reading »
But he does like Robo-Cop
From Jonah Campbell’s guest post about why the Terminator isn’t a cyborg, at Quiet Babylon: Part of why I think cyborgs are interesting, why they are interesting to us, culturally, is how they play on our anxieties about the human, and about the unity/disruption of the human body. The biggest question on the mind of … Continue reading »
iPad use footnote: adaptive passivity?
With Abler, I’m collecting prostheses and augmentive tools, but also the experiences created by the gadgetry. I especially love unexpected experiences that happen due to what appears to be a limitation, whether in the user or the tool itself, as I laid out in my post about the iPad’s accidentally adaptive interface. I’m pretty sanguine … Continue reading »
Alex Dodge’s Sleep Talker
Alex Dodge’s new Generative series was recently on display at Brooklyn’s Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Featured are works like the Sleep Talker, an experimental prototype for social networking in your sleep—connecting users via “dream feeds.” “When the software detects synchronous or compatible dream sleep, it attempts to pair [it] with either a predesignated user over … Continue reading »
