http://gamelab.uta.fi/gamespacetool/ A group of clever Finnish researchers have gathered all the materials they produced in a project where they looked at creativity and innovation techniques for game design. If you manage to plough through the unwieldy Flash interface you'll find a PDF of a booklet that came with an ideation kit they sent to games [...]
unma (It's not that kind) Interesting collection of video clips recorded at a recent evening where plans for a new Utrecht media lab were discussed. (tags: media lab Utrecht NL netherlands nederland videos interviews unma)
Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Upcoming piece about the asynchronous city "Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova invert this common perspective on data-enabled experiences and speculate on the existence of an “asynchronous” city, a place where the database, the wireless signal, the rfid tag, and the geospatial datum are not necessarily the guiding principles of the [...]
scraplab — Mapping the mobile Social Atlas Tom shares a little info on the making of the Dopplr iPhone app, in particular the map bits. It's nice to see you can get so far nowadays with "easily accessible libraries, tools and open data." (tags: OSM openstreetmap maps dopplr social mobile travel iphone)
monome "a reconfigurable grid of backlit keypads which connects to a computer. interaction between the keys and lights is determined by the application running on the computer. there is no hard-wired functionality" I love the fact that these are (apparently) made in a barn in the Catskill Mountains. (tags: interfaces hardware adaptive)
It’s been a few weeks since I presented at the Nijmegen Design Platform (NOP), but I thought it would still be useful to post a summary of what I talked about here. Update: it took me a while, but the slides that accompanied this talk are now up at SlideShare. A little context: The NOP [...]
SILENT LONDON by SIMON ELVINS Interesting and beautiful visualization of London noise level data. I am particularly intrigued by the braille like version. (tags: noise sound maps visualizations data london dataviz) YouTube – Dani doing candles and melodies in the radarfunk PIPS:lab have a new show that features a thing called the Radarfunk. Here's a [...]
A few things I got people to do at this year’s NLGD Festival of Games: Fight each other with paper swords… …and run around with lunch-boxes on their heads.1 This was all part of a workshop I ran, titled ‘Playful Tinkering’. The mysterious Mink ette — who amongst many things is a designer at Six [...]
Infovore » Conference time: Develop 2009 At this year's Develop conference, Tom will be talking about applying service design to games. What a nice idea, do check him out. (tags: servicedesign games tomarmitage develop 2009 conferences) Extreme Sheep LED Art When androids dream of electric sheep, this is what it looks like. (tags: sheep LEDs [...]
Aspyr – Treasure World™ A location-based treasure hunting game on the Nintendo DS. Might just need to get this. (tags: ds nintendo nintendods TreasureWorld locationbased games) Frank-ly » Blog Archive » Verslag ThisHappened #3 Utrecht-based web agency Rhinofly report on our third edition (in Dutch). I'm happy to see the author enjoyed himself, but he [...]
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