New Toys
Clutter – shows the album cover art of whatever’s up in iTunes. From AKMA’s Random Thoughts Trusted Blog Search – best Google hack I’ve seen yet from Micah, a friend over in the HCI program here. It allows you to do a Google search against your RSS subscriptions (using your OPML file) to search the [...]
Marc Rettig knows how to party
Sometimes people surprise you with their skills. Marc Rettig, for example. By day he’s a visiting professor: mild-mannered, insightful, and affable. By night he’s a party-thrower, the seasoned mixologist that keeps a drink in every hand and the conversation lively. Obviously, this is a man who takes the wide view of “interaction design”. It makes [...]
Wearable Prototypes
Frog Design put together an interesting system of wearable devices for Motorola. The School of Design is hosting a Career Days event tomorrow, and both Frog and Motorola will be there, so perhaps I’ll find out a bit more. We’ve been exploring wearables quite a bit this year in school – I just looked at [...]
Paper holds books
Using 2 sheets of ordinary 8.5 x 11 inch paper, create a structure that supports the weight of 10 pounds worth of books for 30 seconds. How tall can you make that structure? Hugh Dubberly visited our grad seminar last week week and posed us design problem. Stacking three dictionaries on top of the table, [...]