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If everyone says time is relative, why is it still so rigidly defined? The current model is inherently poor at accommodating life’s unpredictability. Kairoscope looks at time from a human perspective: allowing people to coordinate events socially and on the fly, without worrying about precision.

Barcode Plantage transforms a simple product bar code into a unique tree in the garden of globalization. Everyone knows that the bar code is used to facilitate the cashing and recording of goods in stores. But which information is actually encoded within the bar code?

The Proximeter is an ambient social navigation instrument that tracks the past and future proximity of one’s social cloud in an ambient display. By reading existing calendar and social network feeds, and abstracting these into a glanceable pattern of paths, it nurtures a social proprioception, creating more face-to-face interactions.

Hands and Fingers: A mobile platform for networked objects

Cell phones and other handheld electronics devices are gaining abilities previously reserved for personal computers. The projects uses microprocessors with I/O that are embedded in personal objects, and routing software running on a cell phone. These are connected by software layers in the routing software that manage the communications hardware.