Bill Hammack’s video this week explains the constraints that govern the engineering of cell phones, and how and why the development of key technologies has changed the way cell phones look and function. He also shows off the 8pen gestural keyboard app installed on his Android, which I immediately had to download and try for myself. Thanks, Bill, as always!
Product Design student Andrew Little created the Connect A Sketch, a networked version of the ever-popular Etch A Sketch mechanical drawing toy: We all love to leave personal messages for one another, be it productive or playful, Connect A Sketch was designed to take this interaction to a larger scale. The reason I chose to […]
Four students from the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, ON, created this clever 6′ telepresence robot, called TIPI — pronounced tippy?
TEROOS lets a distant friend accompany you and see/hear through the robot’s camera and mic. A mini directional speaker allows the robot to whisper in your ear, which is even more weird. [Via JWZ]
This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four-metre tall measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting. While we were mapping out tiny RFID fields, we wondered what it would be […]
Tokyo-based wireless hacker Akiba of FreakLabs sends word of their latest project, the Freakduino-Chibi, an Arduinoid with open source 802.15.4 protocol stack and integrated radio.
Artist Jamie O’Shea decided to embark on a wilderness experiment to see if he could build a telegraph from materials and tools he finds and makes in the woods. Armed only with modern information (from online, of course), watch as he makes rope, creates fire, and produces copper. He calls the project Immaculate Telegraphy. Some […]
