In this weeks links we watch the weather float by with Poietic:
http://www.poietic.co.uk/ourwork/floatingforecaster
Take a tour of the giant-abandoned-nuclear-power-plant where they filmed The Abyss.
http://io9.com/the-abyss/
Get under the skin of the ‘Hands’ scene from Labyrinth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcg9ssRwpfE
See the original sketches for the Back to the Future II MAG shoes.
http://www.nicekicks.com/2011/09/nike-air-mag-officially-unveiled/
Head out on a quest for the aurorae.
http://vimeo.com/28740524
(Royal Observatory Greenwich/ Lonelyleap, incorporating time-lapse footage of aurorae by Ole C. Salomonsen’ Produced by Anne Hollowday)
Denise points us towards ‘a robot autonomously folding a pile of 5 previously-unseen towels.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo
Mull over a blog entry from Bryan Clark about the need to create systems capable of negotiating with users.
http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/05/14/negotiate-with-your-users/
“I always advocate against simple (and especially modal) dialogs in user interfaces because they aren’t there to help the user get past the problem, more like work through the emotional issues the software is having.”
Finally, in the studio we drink a lot of tea so the subject of a tea-making-robot inevitably cropped up.
Timo compiled a list of links to get a sense of how far humankind has got in this great endeavour.
Teabot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl-WbiyJIDQ
Lego
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhQ4mv4zsHk
An industrial robot in 1988:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcttVn2y6v0
Another ABB industrial robot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CiuXy5UY1w
A speculative teapot carrier
http://vimeo.com/4587297
Have a great weekend!
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