Archive for August, 2008
Ubiquity: connecting language to the web
Mozilla Labs introduced a new experiment in web interaction paradigm to connect natural language to the Web experience called Ubiquity. the main rationale is to connect the Web with language in “an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily”.
The overall [...]
Creativity and criminality: new trends in communication among drug dealers
I came across an interesting post in Putting people first describing the creative use of communication technology and practice innovation among drug dealers in Italy. The post catches and translates for us the essential of an article in an Italian newspaper. I cote here some interesting elements:
Drugs now come via the internet – dealers use [...]
The Perfect Mess
Luke Wroblewski makes an interesting point concerning how well should be a design organized and how much mess (or tolerence for mess) it should involve. He quotes A Perfect Mess by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman.
“Rather, we argue that there is an optimal level of mess for every aspect of every system. That is, in [...]
Trackable Rich Cyborgs
Through slashdot:
Because the number of abductions in Mexico has jumped almost 40% in the past 3 years, the wealthy are getting subcutaneous transmitters so they can be tracked when kidnapped. Xega, the Mexican security firm which makes the chips, has seen a sales jump of 13% this year. The company injects the crystal-encased chip, the [...]
Geekbrief about Human-Interaction Design
GeekBrief.tv proposes a good grand-public overview of the new ideas in the Human-Machine Interaction Devices such as multi-touch screens, brain-machine interfaces and air-touch technologies. The topic is of course really exciting and interesting. A large set of the project conducted in my research lab are more or less related to these sort of new interaction [...]
Toilet Tunes: when sensor-tech hits the toilets
By watching to the old Cnet video podcast buzz Report, I came accross this amazing product: Toilet Tunes,
after ROFLMAO as they say, I decided that it’s definitely worth blogging. The video is quite self-explanatory. To sum up, the product is aimed at providing you with some sound-covering privacy in your toilets. Just stick the [...]
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