design

BERGLondon announced this week a duo of new projects coming out of their studio in what they say is the first of many:Little Printer:- A thermal printer that communicates wirelessly through a BERGCloud bridge that is connected to your router.- It gathers a list...

The ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems will happen in Newcastle, UK from June 11-15, 2012. The focus of this years event is: What happens when...

“connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to us” DisplayCabinet is a prototype developed over the course of 24 hours by Ben Bashford, Dan Williams, and Tim Burrell-Saward for last...

iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory) in Brussels just completed "Generator.x 3.0 :from code to atoms" one of their openLAB workshops that focused on "how software processes can be combined with digital fabrication to produce physical objects that are the result of dynamic software systems...

Twine is a a new way to connect your things to the internet. A project created by two MIT Media lab graduates (David Carr and John Kestner) and currently seeking funding on Kickstarter (Looking for $35,000 and ending on Jan...

Natural Fuse is a project developed in 2009 by Haque Design + Research as part of the Architectural League of New York's Exhibition, "Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City" that harnesses the natural carbon-capturing processes of plants as they grow, and uses it in...

These 10 networked art projects show the many ways that using real-time data like weather, pollution sensors, wave monitoring and all the other outputs that are streaming around us can be used to visualize and engage our environment in new ways. 1) eCLOUD...

I would like to introduce you to Brad. He is a toaster and a member of a new breed of networked "addicted products" created by Simone Rebaudengo and Haque design+research that explore some new ground rules for their use: ...

Res Sapiens a project by Pieke Bergmans & LUSTlab features common desk lamps connected to the internet. The 13 lamps were exhibited in Milan recently where they used a "continuous stream of (public) digital data and information as...

Created by Huaishu Peng and Yen-Chia Hsu at the Computational Design Lab at Carnegie Mellon comes the SENSEable shoes project. The shoes can identity and transmit information for 10 different gait patterns (standing, sitting, turning left, turning right,...

Lance Weiler a "story architect of film, tv and games - an all around culture hacker" has an article out in Film Maker Magazine that discusses using elements of an Internet of Things in order to create the next generation...

Tomorrow is Another Day is a piece by Mathieu Lehanneur that gathers real-time weather data from the Internet to generate a picture of the future sky. (Credit: Mathieu Lehanneur) Conceived for the palliative-care unit at the Diaconesses/Croix-Saint-Simon Hospital Group, in Paris and...

Foundry the research arm at Mint Digital has just released Molly, their follow up project to their smell producing robot Olly. Taking a little different of approach to bringing your social networking world into your physical world Molly...

Quadrigram is a visual programming environment tool (currently in private beta) that is a solution for any individual or organization that works intensively with information. It provides tools to formulate and answer questions with a wide variety of...

James Bridle as the closing keynote from this year's Web Directions South conference gave his talk titled "Waving at the Machines" speaking about the New Aesthetic. "So what I’m going to...

Last September in San Francisco Facebook held its annual developer conference F8. Creative agency Obscura Digital added a little spice to the event with their interactive physical installation constructed from participants Facebook social graph data they dubbed...