Gesture Interfaces for Microinteractions in Domestic Spaces. iGNANT. The Memory Container by Weiche Wu seeks to analyze our body, which contains both physical and emotional experiences. Translating biological data into a readable language using two ordinary objects, a scale and a height chart. The Weight Recorder records the changing weight of a person over a period of time. The scales will eventually produce a graphic ‘life-tracing’ on a disk. The Height Recorder uses a common experience, featuring a doorframe as a height chart and leaving marks on it to show a child’s height, to record the specific memory. By using a long wooden stick hanging on the wall, the user can stand against the stick and draw a mark on it every year. After some years the stick can be cut into several pieces, according to the marks and reassembled into musical scales on a xylophone. Those scales are ordered by year, each scale represents an age of the user.
All images © Weiche Wu. Internet Of Things. Technology in 2019 - What the future of tech looks like. The Internet of Things: In action. The following is a guest post by Lauren Fisher of Simply Zesty. By 2015, six billion objects in the world will be connected to the internet. While it may seem tricky to grasp as a concept, the internet of things is nothing simpler, and more stunning, than objects being connected to the internet. At its most mind-blowing, these objects are learning and adapting to the behaviour of the user. The internet has well and truly left the computer and is running amok in ‘things’, showing us how previously inanimate, everyday objects can be bought to life through being connected .
We’ve seen prerequisite technology such as RFID tags, once used for fairly mundane tasks as tracking stock in a warehouse, be employed to enable the internet of things, and new technology emerge such as Arduino that takes this to the next level. Communicate with objects Nest is a great example of this. Now while this is clearly a bit of fun from Twitter, the use-cases here are wide reaching. In the Cloud. Samsung TecTiles Finally Come to Galaxy S4. Samsung's programmable TecTile technology is finally coming to the Galaxy S4. TecTiles are Samsung's near-field communications (NFC) stickers that be placed around the house or car, so you can automate certain tasks. Want to dim the lights and not get up from the couch? How about activate a media player from afar? All you'll need to do is to tap your Samsung smartphone against the sticker after it's programmed within the accompanying app and life will be much better.
TecTiles first launched last year, but the new Galaxy S4 smartphone comes with an updated NFC chip, which isn't compatible with the previous TecTile tags. Now, the company has rolled out TecTiles 2, which you can buy on Samsung.com. App Delivers 'Virtual Placebo' to Improve Your Health. Researchers from PlaceboEffect.com are raising funds through Indiegogo to create an app that administers a virtual placebo. No pills, no doctors — just pictures.
Here's how it works: You begin the experience by choosing which lifestyle aspect you'd like to change — say, quitting smoking or decreasing stress — before scheduling an alarm-like reminder to "take it" each day. Then, you can personalize it further by choosing exactly what you'll be taking (it doesn't need to be a picture of a pill). The whole idea is to create a comfortable "happy place" to achieve the proper effect. With the right mindset, the group says, the act of routinely pressing buttons and watching your smartphone's screen will be equivalent to physically swallowing a sugar pill. Watch the video above to learn more. At time of writing, the group had raised almost $10,000 of its $50,000 goal, with 18 days remaining to donate. Would you give this a shot? Image via iStockphoto, c-George. 5 Connected Objects to Smarten Up Your Home. Imagine waking up in a fully automated home. The light on your nightstand gradually begins to brighten, your blinds unfold to welcome the morning light, coffee brews in the kitchen and music begins to play, all without you lifting a finger.
Until recently, even partially automated homes were exclusive to the domains of engineers and home owners wealthy enough to hire them (or creative students with some extra time on their hands). But now those systems are becoming more affordable and easier to manage, thanks in part to Kickstarter-fueled interest in "The Internet of Things," as well as integrations with SMS, smartphones and web-based applications like Twitter and Dropbox. We rounded up five objects to help smarten up your home. Photo courtesy of Lockitron.
How Social Media Will Make the Smart Energy Grid More Efficient. Chikodi Chima is a multimedia journalist and occasional globetrotter whose work has appeared in Fast Company, VentureBeat, GigaOm, Shareable, The Philadelphia Weekly and The New York Press. Based in San Francisco, he's currently working on The Future Journalism Project, a documentary about disruption of legacy media at the hands of emerging technologies. While Facebook may be the social media platform to beat, there’s an even more powerful social networking force that promises to be in all American homes one day. A growing number of startups are applying the principles of social networking to home energy management, and bringing social media to the smart grid. In the process, they are revolutionizing people’s understanding of their energy use, building successful companies and helping to lessen the impact of each individual on the environment.
What is The Smart Grid? The smart grid refers to the overlay of digital communications technology on our existing electrical infrastructure. Awesome Gadgets That We Should All Have - 28 Examples. Industrial designers are visionaries who make our future look better by building gadgets to help us in different activities that we have on a daily basis. Not all their concepts are built and commercialized because of various reasons and that’s a shame cause our world would look a whole lot different.
In this article there are 28 gadgets that are really useful or really neat or both. Thermosaurus Rollerphone Zoomin Watch Finder Opel Boomerang Bike Polyply E-Board DrawBraille Mobile Phone Easy Eye Drops The QuickSnap 0 Point Ruler Re-Warming Period Clock Paper Dish The Smartphone TWO The Cradle U Transfer USB stick Bottle cap concept Corner Ladder Bottle Cap Sharpener T&T Pen-ink Chamber The Wool Ball Charger Chalkeeper V Lock Tea-time tea steeper USB Clip Office Assault: Sticky Note Gun.
Wireless Technology For Independent Living - Sensors. The heart of the BeClose System, the Base Station, "listens" to all of the sensors throughout your home. It will stay in contact with BeClose even when the power goes out, thanks to the battery that can last for up to one day. You don't need to connect your Base Station to a computer, a broadband connection, or a phone line. All communication is wireless and included in your monthly fee. These sensors are used to detect motion or activity in selected areas of your home.
They cover an area of 30 × 35 feet and are "small pet friendly. " — that is, a pet smaller than 40 pounds should not trigger a motion event. Motion sensors can also be used to detect periods of inactivity, which can signal a problem. The Door Sensors detect the opening and closing of doors, windows, cabinets, drawers, or just about anything that opens and closes. The lightweight and comfortable Bed Sensor is placed discreetly between the mattress pad and the mattress. 30 Cool High Tech Gadgets To Give Your Home A Futuristic Look. Gadgets are becoming a part of our everyday life and like the mobile phone (one of the first gadgets) we are starting to be addicted, depending on them for our daily actions. As technology advances, so do these gadgets that we are fond of and we are amazed by the new concepts created by young and ambitious designers.
These innovations appear from a necessity of solving the problems that old products have and besides new and improved functions, they also come with a beautiful design. Transparent TV The transparent tv designed by Michael Friebe is a marvelous piece of technology that combines conventional LCD and the latest TOLED display technology. This allows to create non-transparent / solid moving pictures with rich color reproduction and full contrast range from solid black to pristine white. Floor Plan Light switch Have you ever had a problem with forgetting which light switch stands for what light? The AURA Lamp Dimensional Wall Panels People aren’t familiar with 3D wall panels.
Miranda. BOP Intelligent Workplace Visualisation - Artificial Tourism Ltd. Blog, Illustration, Infographic, Information Visualisation, TSB. +44 (0)207 033 9718 hello@artificialtourism.com © 2014 Artificial Tourism Ltd Back to top. Work - Artificial Tourism Ltd. Chiswick Park Green Screens Application, Illustration, Infographic, Information Visualisation, Arup. Drivers of Change Interaction Design, Arup. C40 Urban Life 2030 Identity, Arup. Arup Foresight, Innovation + Incubation Interaction Design, User experience, Arup. Arup Foresight Blogs Identity, Interaction Design, Arup. BOP Intelligent Workplace Visualisation Blog, Illustration, Infographic, Information Visualisation, TSB.
Drivers of Change Votecloud Application, Information Visualisation, Arup. Herman Lelie Interaction Design, Herman Lelie. The Ruskin Interaction Design, The Ruskin. Modern Art Oxford Interaction Design, Modern Art Oxford. Karekla Identity, Interaction Design, Karekla. DataCloud Application, Information Visualisation +44 (0)207 033 9718 hello@artificialtourism.com © 2014 Artificial Tourism Ltd Back to top. Design Fiction - Category - 2012 Internet of Things Awards. One of the thought leaders in this category Julian Bleecker sums the topic up well in his essay "Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction" with these words: "I proposed “design fiction” in order to think about how design can tell thoughtful, speculative stories through objects.........I decided on fiction not so much to create objects that are for storytelling, but to create objects that help think through matters-of-concern.
I am interested in working through materialized thought experiments. Design fictions are propositions for new, future things done as physical instantiations rather than future project plans done through PowerPoint. " "Smart, creative, imaginative ways of linking ideas to their materialization really do matter, because the future matters, and we will use whatever means possible to do create these better worlds, including the simultaneous deployment of science, fact, fiction and design. " Ear Hacking David Chatting More Information Pareidolic Robot. Supermechanical: Twine. Listen to your home, wherever you are. Mapme.at blog | I'm here, where are you? Blog. These are the extended notes from a talk I gave at #IoTlondon on January 2012. I have included some notes that didn’t make it to the final presentation due to time and format constraints. The purpose of this talk was for me to introduce the motivations and initial prototype of Hintsights, a startup company I have recently setup and will be developing in the coming months.
I will start my presentation giving you a quick overview of my interests in The Internet of Things (IoT). Then I want to talk to you about the motivations and execution of Hintsights a new startup in the IoT space I’m setting up. I’m a designer I’ve been professionally involved in interaction design for about 15 years. These past few years we have worked on a number of projects you would identify as being part of an Internet of Things. We are particularly interested in the development of tools to help people engage with information stemming from these networks, in buildings. Hintsights service Computers for places. Cooking up the connected kitchen. With all the attention given to home automation, you'd think that more products would be devoted to the "heart of the home.
" The kitchen probably has more gizmos-per-inch than any other room in the house. Yet most home connectivity efforts have left the kitchen connectivity on the back burner. That's in the process of changing – with some vendors, at least, turning the innovation heat up to High. The reasons are fairly obvious. The low-hanging fruit in home automation is products for security, environment, and cost savings. Fear of a break-in and budget concerns are strong emotions for homeowners. [Five ways the cool stuff at CES will ruin your life and Study: Smart energy IT market growing quickly] Yet, as both a self-professed computer geek and an avid cook (what, doesn't everyone own 400 cookbooks?!)
I could have given you a slide show of gizmos that somehow belong to the cooking or eating categories. My conclusion is that the vendors currently are mostly thinking-out-loud. Good idea. 2013: The year the smart kitchen finally arrives? | CES 2013: Gadgets. January is a time of renewal. It also happens to be when appliance makers show off their visions of what is to come. The event is CES 2013 and this year, according to those that make kitchen gadgets and appliances, everything is going to be very, very smart. While we have been promised automated kitchens in one form or another since the time of the Jetsons, there is one important factor in the modern world that may see the smart kitchen finally grow up: mobility. The year 2013 is going to be one marked by plenty of smartphone and tablet sales.
All cooking consists of a step-by-step process; a process that lends itself remarkably well to being transcribed as a set of directions. The dream of connected appliances is happening. If the thought of a matched set of smart appliances seems out of reach you are not alone. Smartphones and tablets have certainly changed how we view and interact with the world around us. 5 Tips For Designing Mobile Experiences For Couples. BUTLER » Smart Healthcare/Wellness. Connected Home. Light Tape® - Bring your imagination to light! Dream Technology for Your Home Office. Microsoft's Envisioning Centre showcases future home, office technology. Connecting. Springwise. Microsoft's New Envisioning Center: Live, Work, Play. Nest Thermostat Teams With Energy Providers to Save You Money. Philly Tech Meetup | March 2013 | Zonoff. HomeIQ - Smart Home System on Behance. 13 energy data startups to watch in 2013.
Shaun Salzberg. Nest Is Just the Beginning of Smart Home Tech. Delta’s ‘Photon Shower’ combats jet lag with light. In Japan, robotic system ‘paints’ room lighting through Photoshop-like control. Homes protected by a sensor and app kit. Pocket : Queue. Watch your day in 2020 [ Future Technology ] Brain-Scanning Headphones Match Songs to Your Mood. Innea Living Room Demo | CEDIA. 1: MIT's Orbs | 16 Of The Year's Best Ideas In UI Design. 2: Twine | 16 Of The Year's Best Ideas In UI Design. Home Automation for independent houses and apartments.
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