Archive for May, 2007
a magic lantern, circa 1870, logs in and reads your emails…
Uniting old and new, this salvaged magic lantern from the 1870\'s has been fitted with a zoetrope-like device imprinted with the letters of the alphabet. The lantern logs into it’s own email account, retrieves new content, and spins out the viewer’s emails or text-messages one letter at a time, projecting... CONTINUE READING »
A 2D and 3D info viz of global immigration data in a flexible environment where users can re-arrange the elements.
The amount and kind of data we collect has exploded since the advent of computers. Increasingly, designers, scientists, artists and other professionals look for new ways to visualize that data in an effort to test hypotheses or introduce new ideas. This project is an exploration of new visualization techniques. A... CONTINUE READING »
Allow a wheelchair-bound patient with limited motor skills to capture video via a modified, touch sensor remote control.
This project was developed for wheelchair-bound patients who have full cognitive abilities and want to use a video camera for creative and personal purposes. Using a modified microphone tripod stand as its mount, the camera is controlled via a remodeled remote control that senses touch to trigger events... CONTINUE READING »
LettrWritr is a personal letter-writing application that will transcribe, handwrite, and deliver personal messages.
LettrWritr is a web-based application that explores the relationship of form, content, and meaning in interpersonal communications channels. ... CONTINUE READING »
Jewelry that captures the radiance of sun and electrifies in the dark.
Solar jewelry attempts to meld the beauty of jewelry design, electronic components, and sustainable energy into a wearable technology that both compliments the wearer and captivates onlookers. We have designed beautiful circuits based on a nocturnal solar schematic. Using small photovoltaic cells, surface mount electronics, and custom designed circuit boards... CONTINUE READING »
HELP KEEP ITP SAFE! If you see any suspicious activity on the monitor, simply click on the video feed to have it reported.
Distributed Surveillance Company is an experiment in distributed labor and awareness. Harnessing the power of the internet allows us to have millions of eyes watching out for any irregular behavior and insure the safety of ITP. We believe that by \'crowd-sourcing\' the surveillance of the floor, we can increase... CONTINUE READING »
MobiNet links physical objects/people with internet content. It enable cell phone user to pull this information when the objects/people are nearby.
MobiNet is a location based service. The core idea is to build internet over ad hoc Bluetooth network. For people and objects, Bluetooth device are used as tags which are registered with URL. A MobiNet is automatically generated around a Bluetooth cell phone user. Thus, the Bluetooth cell phone user... CONTINUE READING »
\"Detritus (III - XIV)\", the second in a series, is a statement on the life embedded within the objects we buy, use and ultimately discard. This series in particular addresses the anxiety associated with travel.
The eleven objects, the second in a series, are airline sickness bags that are affected by the environment in which they exist. \"Detritus (III - XIV)\" objects (anthromorphized through the mechanisms controlling their movement) do not believe their life has been exhausted. As such they are in their most \"calm\"... CONTINUE READING »
What does it mean to explore degrading media?
The device is record player that draws the waveform of a slowly melting record. Inside of the player is an electric heating element that warms a cast-iron turntable. Connected to the output of the record player are motors that draw the waveform of the left and right stereo channels onto... CONTINUE READING »
A dynamic installation consisting of four 6\" LCD screens that switch the video displayed from that of actual events in the current war when no one is detected in front of a screen to commercial news reports of the same event when someone is detected.
Ignoratio Elenchi is an interactive physical video content driver. The installation creates a space in which the viewer is faced with having meaningful information, via video footage of the war, hidden from them. Through proximity sensors mounted on each screen to find when a user is in... CONTINUE READING »
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