Ambient Experience by Philips focuses on the values and needs of both patients and medical staff, addressing the total experience of the environment. They integrate architecture and technology (e.g. lighting, sound, vision, RFID) to create spaces that the patient can personalize, wrapping the patient in a relaxing ambience. This puts patients at ease and so […]
Researchers at the Human Media Laboratory, Queen’s University in Canada are developing prototypes of new “non-planar” devices, which are virtually computers that have a flexible shape. Computers are nifty, but too bulky to be carried around. Even a laptop is too big to put in your pocket, but imagine if your computer looked and […]
I admire the great photographic series by Alexey Titarenko using long exposure shots to describe the masses moving through St. Petersburg Russia. The crowd appears to become a machine in motion. This is a visual explanation of some of the world that produces pure residual data.
DJ Spooky/Paul D. Miller’s next large scale multimedia performance work will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. The Antarctic Suite transforms Miller’s first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. Miller’s field […]
I just came across the Citysense application for Blackberry which allows participating users to monitor active areas of the city (only San Francisco at this time) through real time network monitoring. Citysense is powered by Sense Networks application over the GSM networks. There also appears to allow personalization of the system to attribute […]