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The Michel Thomas app features a unique interface for a unique language-learning methodology.
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Mag+ is an approach for bringing paper magazines to digital media, with a special focus on touchscreen tablets.
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Ringlight is a camera attachment for illuminating close-up objects. It consists of an array of ultra-bright white LEDs, powered by a 5V battery pack, on a laser-cut plastic frame.
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Exploring the shapes and forms of the readable volumes of RFID fields, and the magic of proximity-based interaction.
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Shownar tracks online buzz around BBC TV and radio programmes, highlighting shows that are surprisingly popular, and conversations on blogs and Twitter.
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Here & There is a project by BERG exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They're intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward. Prints from a limited run are available for purchase.
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Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to. It’s customisable with modular hardware, and aims to provoke discussion on the future and design of radios for the home.
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Investigating mobile phone personalisation with Nokia through material exploration, and a metal phone that changes form while you wait.
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Availabot is a physical representation of presence in Instant Messenger applications. Availabot plugs into your computer by USB, stands to attention when your chat buddy comes online, and falls down when they go away.
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Modifying a cheap toy truck into a drawing machine, looking into how we interact with tools that work without people, and considering a playful way of making pictures.
Est. 2005.
This is week 273.