Pebble Kickstarter Video (by Pebble Technology)
MaKey MaKey - An Invention Kit for Everyone (by wakeupsilver)
makeymakey.com
http://web.media.mit.edu/~silver/projects.php
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joylabs/makey-makey-an-invention-kit-for-everyone
Excited to see the real applications of it. Definitely not drawing! And generally I have some doubts on the need of gestural interface for the desktop. Do you think it’ll become a common thing? (Though maybe on the Italian market… =)))
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene.
…Our technologies have caused an information explosion, and now we look for technological solutions to the problems that the explosion has produced. We no longer have the ability to take in and interpret the mass of information presented to us. Conscious reflection is painful if not impossible; we are desperate for filters. We welcome anything that will simplify our media-amplified reality. By filtering out apparent irrelevancies, giving us us simplified representations of our relationships, interactive media make it easier for us to make decisions.
David Rokeby "Transforming Mirrors: Subjectivity and Control in Interactive Media"
very interesting reading on interactivity
Idea to reality
Someone’s old idea
http://www.embryo.ie/glo/index.html
Today’s reality
http://littlebirdelectronics.com/blogs/news/5901549-project-a-pillow-clock
David Rokeby
Very Nervous System (1982-1991) by David Rokeby from David Rokeby on Vimeo.
Dark Matter by David Rokeby (2010) from David Rokeby on Vimeo.
Since 1982, David Rokeby, from Toronto, Canada, is known to be an “installation artist.” An installation artist is…
