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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.
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Personally I like it when your holding all you monopoly in your hands waving it at you friends as they land on your hotel for the second time but the fact that this technology expecially the improvements in the LCD screens now having greater viewing angles makes them more applicable to designing hypersurfaces for the built environment.
via Gizmodo
January 14th, 2006
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 individually
“The LonelyHome bench is a hybrid creation, part domestic furniture and part robotic pet: a socially intelligent design object. It can be used as an ordinary piece of living room furniture, but it will also come alive unexpectedly.”
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The Lonely Bench is a complete stand-alone system ready to plug into the power outlet of any home. It was shown at the Touch Me exchibition at Victoria and Albert museum, London. Heres the website of maoworks who are a design strategy and production company working with commercial, research and cultural clients.
from loove.org
January 10th, 2006
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 is a four-seat bench showing the adjustable keyboards that double as seats and the skinning of the building with information and thin-film photovoltaics. A single shelter can serve multiple users and functions over the course of the day.
January 4th, 2006
Glowing Places
Glowing Places is a concept from an investigation into innovative ways for people to interact with light in public spaces. The plastic seating, embedded with LED (light-emitting diode) strips and sensors, measure the presence of people over time. Both the number of people sitting and the length of time they stay create a ‘social interactive pattern’ that is translated by patented software into lighting effects in the furniture. Many people sitting for brief periods of time result in lighting activity expressing a busy period, whereas one or two people sitting for a longer period trigger mellow lighting.
From RCA
Glowing Places is built on Philips Designs research on the theme of the ‘emotional building’ – a building that responds to the behavior and feelings of its users by visually expressing the activity inside. With this in mind, Glowing Places demonstrates the importance of lighting to signify the changing emotional states.
from Pixelsumo
December 12th, 2005
Those Japanese have done it again. This time a door that senses the approaching shape of an object entering and opens to that shape. This new design entails strips equipped with infrared sensors that open to the approximate shape of the person or object passing through, minimizing entry of dust, pollen, and bugs while keeping precious air-conditioning in.
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From Gizmodo
December 12th, 2005
an interactive installation for the Libery Science Center (NJ) designed to show breaking news about science to visitors in the museum. a continuous moebius strip of LEDs & projection screens allows visitors to view streaming information from all sides of the atrium. plexi ribs supporting the LED’s & translucent plexi projection surfaces span between the edge rails. visitors can dynamically select topics or upload information from various points along the mezanine handrails.
narchitects via infosthetics
December 2nd, 2005
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