Links for 2009-02-19

In Links on 19 February 2009 with no comments

• Topobo construction kit with kinetic memory
  "Topobo is the world's first construction toy with kinetic memory, the ability to record and playback physical motion." An awesome toy. Via Jerome.
  (tags: toys robots physical motion memory play)
• designswarm thoughts » Blog Archive » Speculative modeling response: 2 conversations
  "I hear there’s real wooden furniture, and paper books. You can have a lie down and read. / What’s a lie down? / Not sure, but I heard that’s what people did back then. / Crazy. / I can’t wait." Alex switches from speculative modelling to speculative storytelling. Wonderful.
  (tags: storytelling stories speculation speculativemodelling future past history)
• The City Is Here: Table of contents « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
  "The result is a highly dynamic overlay of current conditions, soundings and action potentials made explicit and superimposed on the city – something we might think of as network weather." An outline of sorts for Greenfield's new book. Network weather, what a lovely metaphor.
  (tags: urbanism architecture ubicomp everyware adamgreenfield books cities space place internetofthings)

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