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Furniture

• Furniture, Kinetic

  Feel - Animi Causa

  03.08.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Okay so this isn't interactive but it is reconfigurable and thats enough for me. Here's the beautifully simple piece of furniture from Animi Causa called Feel. It's a grid of 120 soft balls that can be folded and arranged to create multiple seating or reclined positions.

• Audio, Bartlett, Devices, Furniture, Haptic, Inflatable, Interactive, Kinetic, MIT, New Materials, Reciprocal, Smell, Virtual, Visual

  Can you help?

  02.02.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  As you may have seen there’s a tutorials page attached to the blog which I’ve had online as long as the blog has been running. I’ve been meaning to build up a tutorials section of links to other websites and books about physical computing, hacking appropriated technology etc but just haven’t got around to doing […]

• Furniture, Interactive

  Update on Interactive Tables

  01.15.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Regine from wmmna, and Nicolas Nova from pasta and vinegar have put together an excellent list of interactive tables.
  also see Regine’s new post of a ‘Conversation table’, a project looking at the social dynamics that take place at tables during conversations.
  also see Chris O’Shea aka Pixelsumo’s Sonicforms project and his links to related material.

• Audio, Devices, Furniture, Interactive, Visual

  Philips - Entertaible

  01.14.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Philips have made the Entertaible which is a 30” LCD touchscreen table that has been developed for social gaming applications for people in places like bars and restaurants, and perhaps one day in the home. It also has built in speakers to add extra thrills to the age old board game platform.
  Video
  Personally I like it […]

• Furniture, Reciprocal

  LonelyHome - Tobi Schneidler

  01.10.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  A spin off from the Remote Home project another project by Interactive Architect Tobi Schneidler called Lonely Bench. Part of their LonelyHome project.

  A ’self conscious’ piece of furniture reluctant to its use. The sensors for this version was completely remade into a highly responsive and sensitive system triggering each cushion on the bench […]

• Furniture, Interactive, MIT

  Autonomous Pedestrian Interfaces for Community Networking

  01.04.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here’s Leonardo Amerigo Bonanni’s Masters Thesis at MIT exploring the design of a street furniture system to provide autonomous computer kiosks in the form of bus stops, public bathrooms, atms and other shelters. Nice modular and adaptive designs but unfortunately their isn’t any futher details of the project online. Here’s some pictures instead.

  The basic module […]

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