Eye 2.0
Now with Google smart look. Don’t worry, it is science fiction (still). Created by Sean Hamilton Alexander.
What is Next Nature?
With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
Posts Tagged ‘Calm-technology’
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Instant privacy
Please leave me alone, I’m writing a message.
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Sixties last
The flower depicted in the image is a good example of Hypernature. While fake nature is always a flatter surrogate of old nature, hypernature is a simulation of an old nature that never really existed. Better than the real thing. Hypernature = authentic fake nature.
To bad it is just a science fiction video about the happy marriage between nature and culture by 1st Ave Machines, 3D studio.
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Plant Sensors
One day you will step into the garden to look at the flowers – and the flowers will look back at you.
Rich Fletcher, Nikolai Slavov, and Hiroshi Ishii from MIT Tangible Media Group are building novel electronic and optical sensors that “take a peek” inside the biological activity of living plants, and explore their use as low-cost sensors. Plants are very common in our world and and contain a vast amount of information. Plants have a great ablity to sense and respond to their environment. The electrophysiology of plants has sparked interest since the late 1800s, but this topic has not been explored recently in the context of modern information technology and electronic devices.
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Datafountain: Money translated to water
“In the morning paper, I can read the weather report as well as the stock quotes. But when I look out of my window I only get a weather update and no stock exchange info. Could someone please fix this bug in my environmental system? Thanks.”
The datafountain is connected to money currency rates on the internet. Refreshed every five seconds. The mobile fountain measures 5x4x3 meters. The relation between money and water is evident. The currency rates of the Yen, Euro and Dollar (¥€$) are displayed on the fountain; their interdependence is visible in water.
Check: Datafountain website.
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Sequoiaview – harddisk visualisation
Did you ever wonder where all that hard drive space went too? Sequoiaview generates organic-like views of the files and folders on your hard drives using cushion treemaps. SequoiaView was developed by Jack van Wijk at the computer science department of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
Sequoiaview can be downloaded for free.
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Info Toaster
Toasted bread as an information display device (originally developed in 2001 but somehow still intruiging): a toaster that parses meteorological information from the web & then browns bread with an image of what weather to expect, readable & consumable on the way to work. the image is burned on to the bread by one of 3 stencils, representing sunny, cloudy or rainy conditions.
Eventually, the stencils could become more sophisticated, to display detailed weather maps, short text messages & even advertisements on to bread.
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Cellphone Treemasts
Mobile phone operators go to extraordinary lengths to conceal the masts that form their networks. They are being disguised as chimneys, clocks, drainpipes, telegraph poles, and even trees. The UK has already deployed many of these trees in national parks, and the first Dutch tree mast is placed in Bloemendaal. The trees are twice as expensive as traditional phone pylons.
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More leg = more money
The Stock market skirt
Nancy Paterson made a blue taffeta & black velvet party dress that represents the real-time stock market situation by lowering or raising its hemline. When the stock price rises, the hemline is raised, when the stock price falls, the hemline is lowered. this concept is based on the ‘Skirt Length Theory’ which describes that skirt lengths are a predictor of the stock market direction. According to the theory, if skirts are short, it means the markets are going up. And if� skirt are long, it means the markets are heading down.The idea behind this theory is that shorter skirts� tend to appear� in times when general consumer confidence and excitement is high, meaning� the markets� are bullish. In contrast, the theory says long skirts� are worn more in times of� fear and general gloom, indicating that things are bearish.
Although some investors may secretly believe in such a� theory, serious analysts and investors -� instead of examining skirt length to make investment decisions – insist on� focusing� on market fundamentals and data.
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Weather forecasting umbrella
An umbrella that provides information about the likelihood of rain so that users can make a simple, informed decision about whether to take the umbrella with them as they leave their home. after retrieving the weather data via a wifi connection, the handle glows more intensely with the increased chance of precipitation.
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RFID ladybag
a purse that visually keeps track of valuable items such as keys, wallets, personal identification cards, & cellular phones through various sensors embedded in the bag. if something is missing, an iconographic pattern associated with that item ‘lights up’ on the outside of the bag.
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Sababa
The Sababa is the first real time lava visualiser kit of global city flows. It takes the lava lamp one step further by reconstructing it according to the language of the current on-line culture.
The result is a new generation of interactive lava’s that are connected to a growing network of data sources around the world.The word sababa means “cool” and is borrowed from Hebrew low tech slang. It stands in contrast to the hi tech words used to describe the product the Sababa stands for, indicating that behind the hi-tech quality of our product there is also a valued low-tech requirement.
The Sababa might end up being a satire, it might turn to be vaporware, but it is also cool and desirable – it is Sababaware.More here
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When there’s smoke, there’s nature
When I was a kid, I thought that people that could make smoke circles were really cool. Now I think machines that can do that are even cooler! Made by Takeshi Ishiguro
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The infoBreath
A flower arcing from a frosted pane of glass. Rigged with a breath sensor and connected to an internet packet sniffer, the flower is cued in to the wireless network flowing in the space immediately surrounding it. Breathing onto the flower triggers a flurry of text, making visible the wireless internet traffic passing through the air. The plant absorbs this information, analyzing the bytes of data for those aspects that seem more alive, or human-generated, and releases those packets in a more human-comprehensible form.
Check it out.
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Walls with Ears
A traditional textile heritage is celebrated with flocked wallpaper that comes to life as it reacts to ambient noise levels. The louder the space the brighter the wallpaper glows. It explores the experience of human presence and action having a tangible effect on space and provides a direct and analogue reflection of this by addressing the point where ambient space ends and surface begins. A new depth and language is brought to otherwise dormant decorative materials that simply surface and contain space.
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Technology behind Google’s results
As a Google user, you’re familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google’s search technology is PigeonRankâ„¢, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.
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Dreamkeeper
Skin conductivity sensors are used to deduce the emotional state of the sleeper. This information is brought to 3-D studio where a script is used to transform this into physical forms. Objects can be 3-D printed and keep as a physical mnemonic device to keep the dream memories from slipping away.
Creating tangible objects that are physical manifestations of dreams can have personal, social and psychological benefits. For example, tangible dreams can be worn as unique accessories or collected for personal remembrance. The tangible dreams can also be shared between friends and family to deepen relationships.
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3D rendered bunnies prefer calm diesels
Kenichi Nagahiro, Honda’s chief engine designer, hated diesel engines. When asked to design Honda’s first diesel he flatly refused – unless he was allowed to start completely from scratch. The result is one of the cleanest, most refined diesel engines on the market today. Cute bunnies, pretty flowers and rainbows show their dislike of dirty, noisy, smelly diesel engines by destroying them in exchange for something better.
