March 2009
10 posts
Bowls: Loopa 'Spill-Resistant' Bowl Uses a... →
7b Story Street desperately needed an ashtray with a similar design. Sure babies spill things, but they are never as gross and impossible to clean up as the storied contents of an ashtray.
Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on... →
Super awesome augmented reality tech! Ultimately, I want something that better integrates onto non-relective surfaces & has a more overt consideration of privacy, but it’s certainly an amazing stop gap before retinal projection, and a prime example of the media lab doing what it has historically done best: prototyping the interfaces of the future with the tools of today.
Smart Switch
SmartSwitch prototype makes work out of the simplest of things
Useless b/c X11, etc. all suck. Interesting that they utilize force feedback. It seems to me that this isn’t clear enough, and will have difficulty in scaling to different types of users (children esp.), but it’s a novel use nonetheless.
