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All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s.
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the current champion (this is the name of a law that has to do with how beef is labeled): Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
“Beef labeling oversight transfer law”
Digitale Handarbeit
Der Dokumentarfilm über die Computerindustrie kann für 10 Euro (plus Versand) bei PC Global bestellt werden.
Rezension auf Telepolis
Trailer
Das ist der Gipfel
Das Magazin zum G 8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm Juni 2007 – Herausgegeben von: Freitag und Neues Deutschland
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Ich bin außerordentlich faul, habe die Aufmerksamkeitsspanne eines Kolibris und überstehe Dreharbeiten nur, weil ich mich so sehr auf den Feierabend auf meiner Couch freue.
Designmai, Berlin 12. bis 20 Mai
DIGITALABILITY | SYMPOSIUM 12. und 13. Mai
- Wie ändern sich Image und Selbstbild des Designers angesichts neuer digitaler Technologien?
- Wer ist Autor der endgültigen Kreation: das Computerprogramm, der Künstler, der Nutzer oder der Verbraucher?
- Welche Strukturen der heutigen Design-Ökonomie werden die digitale Revolution überleben?
Referenten (Auswahl, Änderungen vorbehalten):
Regine Debatty (BE/DE), Blogger, Berlin.
Holm Friebe (DE), Geschäftsführer Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur (ZIA), Berlin.
Stefan Heidenreich (DE), Medientheoretiker, Berlin.
Janne Kyttänen (FI), Freedom of Creation (FOC), Helsinki.
Reto Wettach (DE), Professor für Interaction Design, FH Potsdam.
und andere
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this is the enterprise of the future: if you can explain what you are doing with any conventional terminology, you’ve already been outsourced to India
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Today we have some extremely disappointing news to share with you. Due to international licensing constraints, we are deeply, deeply sorry to say that we must begin proactively preventing access to Pandora’s streaming service for most countries outside of the U.S.
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In sum, the Creative Commons toolset encourages and enables participation in creativity by everyone, not only those with access to copyright lawyers. This is as it should be in modern democracies, where the tools for expression and creativity are available to everyone as everyday consumer goods. / flyer
Bush Pilot Johannes Schlüter
bessere Qualität (aber Real Player) bei <a href="http://www3.ndr.de/ndrtv_pages_std/0,3147,SPM4560,00.html">NDR</a>
Walkie-Talkie Phone AK-47
A new, $225 cell phone is designed to look like an old school Communist China Red army walkie talkie . It works as a walkie talkie, too.
Tell the European Parliament to Fix IPRED2
On April 24th, the European Parliament will vote on IPRED2, the Second Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive. With one stroke, they risk turning thousands of innocent EU citizens and businesses into copycriminals. Sign the petition now!
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(...) The medium of the interaction designer is computation: software and electronics. Until recently, this medium was only accessible to engineers: designers weren’t able to work directly with programming and electronics to develop and test their ideas. (...). The software and hardware they [Ivrea&collaborators] have built, used in many of the Institute’s projects, allows designers to be truly creative in this new medium.
Gillian Crampton Smith
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Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.
Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Urban interface | Berlin
Vom 15. April bis zum 6. Mai 2007 präsentiert das Projekt in den Stadtteilen Berlin-Mitte, Wedding und Gesundbrunnen künstlerische Arbeiten, die das sich wandelnde Verständnis von Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit beleuchten.
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According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras – one for every 14 people in the country – and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily.
(George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house, thisislondon.co.uk)
Apple’s Knowledge Navigator (1987)
In 1987 Apple Computer produced a concept video for a hypothetical product called the Knowledge Navigator.
Princess – the music video game
Rektor has teamed up with Agens, a scandinavian flash design bureau, in order to present a new breed in online gaming: the world´s first playable online music video.
Web2.0
“Das Internet wird immer stressiger. Laufend muss man sich irgendwo anmelden, soll kommentieren oder etwas hochladen. Im Web 2.0 gibt es bald mehr Communitys als Internetsurfer.”
deshalb: alleinr.de
DJ Vadim Remix Contest
Creative Commons, BBE Music and DJ Vadim are pleased to present the DJ Vadim / “Kill Kill Kill” “Talk to Me” Remix Contest. The superstar DJ is offering the audio source files from the songs “Kill Kill Kill” and “Talk to Me” online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, so that producers worldwide can use the sounds in remixes and new compositions.
deadline: April 19, 2007
-> further informations ccmixter.com
Open Moko
OpenMoko ist ein neues Projekt zur Entwicklung eines Smartphones, das komplett mit freier Software ausgerüstet ist.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
“Ein internationales Forscherteam hat bei Ratten mithilfe eines Wirkstoffs gezielt eine Erinnerung gelöscht. Die Tiere erinnerten sich nach den Tests nicht mehr an ein bestimmtes Schockerlebnis, während andere Erinnerungen unangetastet blieben.”
(Artikel: 13.03.2007 – Gezieltes Vergessen bei wissenschaft.de)
Super-Close Google Maps Zooms
- Select a location and switch to satellite view
- Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right
- Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, 22, or 23, and wait. Some locations will now show more detailed imagery
The development of the mobile phone
“We have to build a portable telephone,” Cooper answered.
“What the hell is that?” Krolopp asked.
“A phone you carry around with you.”
“That sounds interesting. Let me clean up what I’m working on.”
“No, you don’t understand. This has to be done in six weeks.”
(in: American Heritage / Invention and Technology magazine, Winter 2007 issue)
Prototypes developed by Motorola designers (Foto: Motorola Inc)
strange keyboards
“The decorative tablecloth, made of felt, contains a textile keyboard. The electronic is woven into a fabric, which finds itself between layers of water resistant felt as sandwich material. The soft felt surface makes it a pleasure for fingers to tip a cozy keyboard.”
more: 13 Computer keyboards you’ve never seen before
The marriage of eating and tipping / image via hongkiat.com
Lift07 Presentations
Lift – A conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in our society
The following speakers presentations are available for download:
- Julian Bleecker: When 1st Life Meets 2nd Life
- Daniela Cerqui: Towards a society of cyborgs?
- Suren Erkman: Industrial Ecology – the future of hyperindustrial economy
- Paola Ghillani: What kind of Humanity do we want?
- Jan-Christoph Zoels: Jumping jack flash – new forms of interactions
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Earth at night
The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated. Even more than 100 years after the invention of the electric light, some regions remain thinly populated and unlit.
Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign
Potsdam, 30.+31. März 2007
Die Teilnahme an der Konferenz ist kostenlos. Aufgrund der begrenzten Sitzplätze müssen Teilnehmer sich jedoch bis zum 15. März 2007 online registrieren.
Sprecher: Gillian Crampton Smith, Anthony Dunne, Tim Edler, Frank Jacob, Gesche Joost, Bernard Kerr, Patrick Kochlik, Kristjan Kristjansson, Bill Moggridge, Dennis Paul, Mike Richter und Bruce Sterling.
http://interface.fh-potsdam.de/innoforum“
I will be the newest member of the iPod team, over at Apple. [...] It will be really nice to get back to thinking about hardware and physical product design again.
Weizenbaum. Rebel at Work.
<a href="http://www.ilmarefilm.org/W_D_1.htm">documentary on Joseph Weizenbaum</a>
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Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy.
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In Wahrheit hat es […] den “Bundestrojaner”, der seit geraumer Zeit durch die Medien geistert […], nie gegeben […]. Er ist ein Hoax und beruht auf dem mangelnden Sachverstand eines Oberstaatsanwaltes, jeweils einer Falschmeldung der taz und der Süddeutschen und der Tatsache, dass alle deutschen Medien, ohne die Fakten zu recherchieren, voneinander abgeschrieben haben.
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Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.
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This place has the pregnant feel of the swapfests in Silicon Valley back in the 80’s, when all the big companies were just being founded and starting up…except magnified by 25 years of progress in Moore’s Law and the speed of information flow via the Internet.
RepRap
Replicating Rapid-prototyper / 3D printer
RepRap will make plastic, ceramic, or metal parts, and is itself made from plastic parts, so it will be able to make copies of itself. [...]
The RepRap build cost will be less than $400 US for the bought – in materials…
Also, the RepRap software will work on all computer platforms for free. Complete open-source instructions and plans are published on this website for zero cost and available to everyone so, if you want to make one yourself, you can.
*exciting
Zink’s teeny tiny printers
The portable printer from start-up Zink is about the size of an iPod. It prints 2×3 inch pictures, but larger formats will be available in the future. The printer has no ink cartridges, which enables the small size. Crystals in the special paper change from transparent to colored when heated. / Credit: Zink
Tiny Printer / Zink
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Viral e-mails – those clever or annoying pictures or video clips that spread around offices – are going to become part of college courses. The creative skills in designing these subversive images are to be taught to art and design students.
The Robotic Chair
für alle die das Spektakel noch nicht gesehen haben:
das Video des Stuhls und mehr Objekte mit Eigenschaften (Teppiche die Hören & Lampen die schwitzen) sind bei object links zu finden.
by Raffaello D’Andrea, Max Dean, Matt Donovan
Interview mit MySpace Gründern
SPIEGEL: Womit verdient MySpace Geld?
DeWolfe: Nicht nur durch Banner-Werbung. Große Marken können bei uns wie ganz normale Menschen ein Profil öffnen und eine Gemeinschaft drum herum aufbauen. MySpacer können so zum “Freund” von Toyota oder einem Hollywood-Film werden und auf diese Weise mit Infos und Neuigkeiten versorgt werden. (...). Außerdem haben wir Google erlaubt, seine Suchmaschine auf MySpace zu betreiben. Google zahlt uns dafür 900 Millionen Dollar.(...).
SPIEGEL: 140 Millionen Menschen sollen ihr soziales Netzwerk auch noch übers Handy pflegen?
DeWolfe: Das wird ein ganz großer Trend. Wir haben gerade erst einen Deal mit dem größten Mobilfunkbetreiber der USA geschlossen.
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Das Urheberrecht hat sich mittlerweile zu einem großen Problem entwickelt. Es wurde erfunden, um die Kreativen zu schützen, mittlerweile verhindert es jedoch Kreativität.
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Why don’t we create an alternative Social Electronics Show that features gadgetry and tech stuff that actually matters? The kind of things that never get any attention because they aren’t consumer oriented and don’t plug into an Ipod or Xbox.
Monster Bunnies For North Korea
An east German pensioner who breeds rabbits the size of dogs has been asked by North Korea to help set up a big bunny farm to alleviate food shortages in the communist country.