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Nov 19, 2011, 12:31 pm
Giving a whole new meaning to screen time! Perfect for all the toddlers I can think of around... via ReCraft
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Oct 17, 2011, 6:29 am
I am at UIST this Monday to present one of my project along with my mentor Paul Dietz since I joined Microsoft Applied Sciences Group. It is a very quick but efficient solution for the ones who like to solder small components!
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Aug 12, 2011, 11:03 am
A pretty neat thesis from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, Greg Tran explains that the traditional mode of material production moves forward, but three new forms of design emerge. Digital 3d immersion is the first and is most similar to virtual reality (but has little to nothing to do with ... Comment - Like
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Jun 16, 2011, 10:48 am
Asta Roseway and Sheridan Martin Small , researchers at Microsoft, designed the printing dress!
You are probably familiar with the old saying, “You are what you eat” but how about, “You are what you tweet?” What if this concept were incorporated into garments of the future? Would you censor... Comment - Like
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May 10, 2011, 6:26 pm
Designed by Jay Silver and Mitchel Resnick Drawdio lets you draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you MacGuyver your everyday objects into musical instruments: paintbrushes, macaro... Comment - Like
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May 9, 2011, 2:52 pm
Guitar Games - Revolutionizing How We Learn to Play Guitar
Aurelius Prochazka created a series of projects to help novice musicians to play the guitar. The brilliant idea here is that the more you train your ear to recognize what you hear, the more you will enjoy playing music. Because you'll unders... Comment - Like
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Apr 18, 2011, 10:26 am
Marelo Coelho, Lyndl Hall and Joanna Berzowska have developed a series of techniques for building sensors, actuators and circuit boards that behave, look, and feel like paper.
By embedding electro-active inks, conductive threads and smart materials directly into paper during the papermaking process... Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2011, 10:14 pm
Matthew Blackshaw created a nice 4$ (or less) touchpad with a copper-based matrix!
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Apr 14, 2011, 10:09 pm
Relief, created by Daniel Leithinger, Adam Kumpf and Hiroshi Ishii is an actuated tabletop display which is able to render and animate three-dimensional shapes with a malleable surface. A direct extension of this work, Recompose created by Matthew Blackshaw, Anthony DeVincenzi, Dávid Lakatos, Danie... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2011, 10:42 am
The Junkyard Jumbotron lets you take a bunch of random displays and instantly stitch them together into a large, virtual display, simply by taking a photograph of them. It works with laptops, smartphones, tablets --- anything that runs a web browser. It also highlights a new way of connecting a larg... Comment - Like
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Apr 10, 2011, 10:12 pm
Can we create a device that makes people aware of their early cataract condition? Using a light-field display, the researchers' method projects time-dependent patterns onto the fovea. Interactive software measures the visibility and point spread function across subapertures of the crystallin lens. B... Comment - Like
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Apr 10, 2011, 9:56 pm
BodyNotes was created by the MIT Media Lab. It contributes to a series of projects that enhance the interaction between patients and healthcare practitioners. BodyNotes is a mobile tool that combines anatomical landmarks to physical objects as a mean for a patient to discuss body pain with her docto... Comment - Like
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Feb 26, 2011, 2:42 pm
A bit of insight on what the research group I have recently joined at Microsoft, the Applied Sciences Group, is devoted to. Amazing display technologies coupled to novel interaction paradigms. Enjoy!
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Feb 20, 2011, 1:14 am
My current favorite pop up book for the iPad, the Three Little Pigs and the Secrets of a Pop-Up Book. Almost as interactive as a real pop up book! Thank you Sumit!
Of course, my favorite tech-pop up book for the iPad comes from les éditions volumiques!
You can find it -> here
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Feb 16, 2011, 11:25 pm
Sculpture at Maudslay, Newburyport, MA September 2010 by Kevin Belli.
Sun Boxes by Craig Colorusso are an environment to enter and exit at will. It's comprised of twenty speakers operating independently, each powered by the sun via solar panels. There is a different loop set to play a guitar note in... Comment - Like
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Jan 18, 2011, 2:11 am
Today was my first day at Microsoft. I am officially a researcher in the Applied Sciences Group!
The coolest research group in industry: "The interdisciplinary group focuses on the synergy between optics, electronics and software to create novel human computer interfaces. The ASG mainly supports pr... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2011, 1:36 am
Photo by Recetas Urbanas.
A proposal made to the city of Seville for legislation to assist in the temporary transformation of public and private solares – vacant lots walled off for security – into public spaces for at least six months. Wall rubble is incorporated into the design, and elements o... Comment - Like
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Jan 1, 2011, 5:39 pm
New year 2011 resolution: watch TRON, again and again!
I've watched TRON: Legacy at an IMAX, and this is the best movie I have seen in years. The French duo Daft Punk made a soundtrack so perfect that it makes you cry as you watch light, motions, decors, crazy ideas combine with the nostalgia of th... Comment - Like
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Dec 14, 2010, 3:02 pm
PC nostalgia anyone?!
Microsoft "SoftWear" has created a new line of closing all soft and cozy. A perfect gift for the holidays! Or you can download the .pdf of your best logos/artwork and DIY!
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Nov 2, 2010, 11:40 am
It's really nice to see friends and co-workers from the MIT Media Lab making their ways to the contemporary art scene. Zigelbaum and Coelho keeps winning awards! After celebrating their Design Miami/Basel Designers of the Future award, they are now exhibiting in New York, you can see their work at t... Comment - Like
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Sep 15, 2010, 7:43 am
I will join the Opera of the Future team the 24, 25, and 26th of September in Monaco!
A bit more on the robot opera...
Death and the Powers, a groundbreaking new opera created by Tod Machover with his Opera of the Future Group at the MIT Media Lab, is to receive its world premiere September 24, 2010... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2010, 1:44 pm
I was thinking of Etienne and amazing collections of possibilities with the Editions Volumiques. An inspiring master piece in the arena of interactive art board game, Paradice, designed by artist John O'Neill, strives to teach players to explore the impact of their decision-making.
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Jul 16, 2010, 4:54 pm
With their boundless curiosity, fertile imagination, and natural mastery of the art of self-directed learning, children have much to teach adults about creativity and innovation. That's perhaps even more true with today's "digital natives," says developmental psychologist Edith Ackermann, whose work... Comment - Like
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Jul 6, 2010, 1:43 pm
Jak Spencer designed a hardware based solution for group meeting collaboration. Four touch surfaces are used individually by meeting participants for group work. The hardware platform combined with a software solution to aid collaboration in meeting environments. It has been designed specifically fo... Comment - Like
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Jun 23, 2010, 2:06 pm
OnObject designed by Keywon Chung (my officemate!!), Michael Shilman, Chris Merrill and Hiroshi Ishii is a small device user wears on hand to program physical objects to respond to gestural triggers.
Attach an RFID tag to any objects, grab them by the tag, and program their responses to your grab, ... Comment - Like
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Jun 17, 2010, 8:26 pm
Talking about creative projects and about amazing people, Etienne Mineur, who was my professor in Paris (lucky me again!!) along with Bertrand Duplat just released their éditions volumiques.
They consider paper a new computing platform, envisioning an OS made of paper, video games in paper, etc... ... Comment - Like
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Jun 17, 2010, 7:25 pm
Jeff Liebermann has created so many creative projects I blogged on, including a few collaborative projects that we worked on together (lucky me!) Now he is doing the coolest music videos. Recently, Eric Gunther and Jeff Liebermann just made a music video with OK GO. You've seen Ok GO on treadmills a... Comment - Like
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Jun 2, 2010, 5:41 pm
French Artist Olivier Vaubourg, based in Zagreb, Croatia, explores the relationship between light, textures and the chosen words of books he loves.
The enlightened Machiavelli
Baudrillard | The perfect crime | Blood
Lyotard | Condition post-moderne | Ligne
Guattari | Chaosmose | Slice
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May 11, 2010, 7:30 pm
I was reading some Amazon reviews and stumbled onto this dude's reviews that are hilarious!
Start with the Creative Fatality Gaming Headset, and you'll move onto the review for Uranium Ore ...
I will spend more time reading Amazon's reviews from now on, thank you Adam!!
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Feb 16, 2010, 7:11 pm
Working on tangible video capturing, editing and performing systems since '00, it is nice to see a product that is directly translated from my research! At the MIT Media Lab, I was Mattel fellow for four consecutive terms and for my PhD I created Picture This, basically dolls with camera integrated ... Comment - Like
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Feb 16, 2010, 5:26 pm
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.
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Feb 2, 2010, 5:47 pm
I've had a chance to give a talk at Microsoft Research this January and also to meet fantastic researchers. I've had very inspiring discussions about the future of HCI bringing design, fabrication and strong theoretical foundations into the mix. I've also visited unique labs and see some neat projec... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2010, 11:31 pm
AIDA is part of the Sociable Car - Senseable Cities project which is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab and the Senseable Cities Group at MIT. The AIDA robot was designed and built by the Personal Robots Group, while the Senseable Cities Group is working on intell... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2009, 4:34 pm
Looking for baby clothing at Muji Japan as suggested by Kimiko, I came accross this o! surprising Lego & Muji love affair. I don't understand Japanese so I did not make lots of sense with the text, but it seems pretty neat:
You combine Lego bricks to craft materials to fluidly assemble creatures, p... Comment - Like
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