Ephective Ephemera
The above video was put together by the good people at Touch – a project based out of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design that is focused on technology that connects mobile devices to real-world objects (Near-Field Communication). The video is intended to illustrate the quiet omnipresence of wireless signals in the spaces that [...]
Three loosely-related notes on a theme:
A colleague and I were discussing this morning the relative stagnation of snowboard design in recent years. By this we meant, of course, the structural design of the boards themselves, and not the graphics (which are often fantastic to behold). Both of us are old enough to recall the swallowtail, [...]
I posted last week about Jeffrey Sachs comments regarding the potential good that will eminate from extended mobile reach in Africa.
Today, something quite similar, and altogether different, via a post from Chris Muscarella1, in which he quotes Ethan Zuckerman of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society from Mobile Tech for Social Change:
“If you pair [...]