11
Jun
Brooklyn designer Adam Lassy added proximity sensors and motorized wheels to his Ikea furniture, allowing it to rearrange itself based on how many people are in the room and what activities they’re engaged in. His work gives a whole new definition to “rolly chair.”
09
Jun
API FOR THE WORLD
With a small bit of software and a tiny physical device any object with a power cord can become a networked object and connected to the web. It’s part of an effort to fill the gap between “smart” and low-tech devices. For eample a desk lamp could order itself new lightbulbs, or a Refrigerator could alert you to pick up milk in your car on your way home. The team behind this is calling it a “social network for everyday objects” because you can use an online dashboard to create unique profiles for different objects in your house and connect them to a variety of web services. Another term used to describe this kind of thing is the “internet of things”.
21
May
Glowbits is a matrix of motorized pixels that physically move as their colors change. The result is an image which real depth and dimensionality.
07
Apr
A Shift in the Fabric was a computationally driven visualization that aggregates approximately 5000 of the most populated cities in the world, and visualizes these as nodes, showing network characteristics that can be represented in different visual contexts.
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