Usman Haque is an architect who creates responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices as well as many mass-participation initiatives. Usman is the Founder of the sensor platform Pachube, now known as Xively.com.
Today, we’re going to talk about the smart city vs the messy city
Our radio interview will focus on the Critical Engineering Manifesto that Julian wrote a year ago together with Gordan Savičić and Danja Vasiliev. Expect explanations about why Engineering is the most transformative language of our time, questions about how to adopt the critical engineering ethos if you have next to zero technical skills, and details about Julian Oliver’s upcoming projects
The project is miles away from what you’d expect from an architecture work. No model, no plan. In fact, it looks more like an essay made of photos, short videos and texts. Together, they reflect on immoral architecture, unsympathetic machines, reality filtered by technology and more generally, our symbiotic relationship to technology. In fact, Madhav Kidao likens his project to “an exaggerated caricature of our present and near future relationships to technology as is stands.”
Vicente Guallart’s contribution to the biennale is a research project that explores the potential of information technology to reorganize the habitability of the world. From a single small object to the planet itself
Kitchen Budapest is a brand new media lab for researchers who are not only interested in the convergence […]
Over the past year, i’ve spent an impressive amount of time ogling a blog called Variable_environment. It had […]
As Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign was trying to reflect the whole spectrum of interaction design and innovation, they needed the […]
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I came back from Ci’Num yesterday. The event, held in Margaux (very very small French town too far […]
The Super Vision performance (via Grand Text Auto), by the Builders Association and dbox, was presented last week […]
Julian Bleecker has finally posted his “Manifesto for Networked Objects” in which he discusses “Why Things Matter”. Julian […]
Kento Miyaoku, a research engineer of NTT and a visiting researcher at the University of Columbia, developed a […]
Marking Your Way, by Idumi Sakuma, is a visual information display for museums and exhibition spaces, which allows […]
Nicolas is blogging some interesting projects that are presented this week at the Wireless and Mobile Technologies in […]
Aegis Hyposurface is an elastic architectural surface made up of small metal plates that are controlled pneumatically and […]
HIKARI- humanware is an Olympus research that explores a different type of ubiquitous services based on a “well-being […]
The MetaMirror is a hybrid between animated wall, mirror and information device. In its idle state, a large […]
MIT researchers have developed a hands-free and eyes-free system that allows people to find information about objects without […]
Public recycling bins that use RFID to credit recyclers every time they toss in a bottle; pressure-sensitive floors […]
In the future, our electronic devices will be networked together and all our digital content will be available […]
R*Emote Mirror is a pair of networked interactive lighting installations that creates communication between isolated people in urban […]
Imagine the dangers when full Internet capabilities become available to drivers. Dr. Meirav Taieb-Maimon and her colleagues at […]
Developed by Jodi Forlizzi, Francine Gemperle, and Carl DiSalvo from Carnegie Mellon University , these chair and pillow […]
Japanese companies Yamato House and TOTO have created the “intelligent rest room” system which integrates into the bathroom […]
SNIF is a project from Noah Fields, Jonathan Gips, Philip Liang and Arnaud Pilpré at the MIT’s Physical […]
A networked medicine cabinet, by ITP students Shannon Bain and Meghan Trainor . The Junkie’s Little Helper communicates […]
RedTacton is a Human Area Networking technology developed by NTT Docomo, that uses the surface of the human […]
German firms Vorwerk Teppichwerke and Infineon Technologies have created a “Thinking Carpet”, equipped with sensors that can control […]
VectraSense Technologies, an MIT spin-off company, has developed a computerized shoe product �Verb for Shoe� that provides computerized […]
NetObjects is a collection of everyday objects that give real time a information from the web. The collection […]
First, the heart monitoring ECG-shirt developed by GEO View and German clothing company FALKE KG. It comes with […]
The Object-Based Media group at the MIT is developing a revolutionary system of computerised fabric patches called BYOB […]
Stop & Shop is testing 1,000 carts with wireless computers to allow customers to e-mail their grocery list […]
A life-saving shirt that can call for help when its wearer falls has reportedly been developed professor Francis […]
NTT demoed their human body data transmission technology at CEATEC JAPAN 2004. The technology detects weak electric fields […]
Gaetano Borriello, a University of Washington computer scientist has developed a working prototype of a smart swatch system. […]
Matsushita Electric Works has developed the human skin data transmission technology and started selling it to manufacturers of […]
