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re-inventing the wheel is great if your goal is to learn more about wheels.
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
- …
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.