Ian Fitzpatrick writes, collects and shares things here.
Some of these things have to do with brands, some of them have to do with buildings and places or machines or computers (which are, you know, machines, too). Each of them has to do with people, and the ways in which we respond to the stimuli around us.
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via CScout, another great utility designed to enable, among other things, urban exploration.
PicTranslator is a point & shoot app for the iPhone that promises to translate signage and other text content from 20+ foreign languages into English. Check out the demo below:
While I can imagine all manner of applications for the app, the ability to explore unfamiliar spaces with the ability to rapidly orient and guide oneself is chief among them. Very cool stuff.
Link: Point & Shoot Foreign Language Translator on CScout Categorized as: Links, People and Spaces Published Oct 26.09
Great Street Games is a series of installations in Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough that are triggered by pedestrian activity through public spaces, and allow for intra-city competition through increasingly-complex gameplay.
Read the full post...Projected light and thermal-imaging technology are used to create jaw-dropping interactive playing arenas in which the physical movements of players determine the outcome of the games. Develop your game-playing skills as you progress through a number of levels to help your area to victory or to simply have fun.
Categorized as: People and Devices
A blog devoted to near field studies – the interactions between people, objects and mobile devices.
Zach Hoeken and Bre Pettis run this blog, dedicated to the sharing of designs for original digital and physical devices and products, with a strong focus on digital fabrication and prototyping.
Industrial design student Kjetil Austvoll-Dahlgren posts here all sorts of found items that explore the ways in which people engage objects and technologies.
The latest iteration of the now-famous design lab event, focused heavily on technology-enabled relationships between environmental and product design.
Makerbot founder and hacker-culture rock star Pettis blogs here on all manner of invention and rapid prototyping explorations and concepts.