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MIT

• Interactive, MIT

  Simplicity Project - Interview with John Maeda

  01.21.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sascha Pohflepp, a Digital Arist, blogger for plugimi and wmmna and writer for de:bug magazine, has recently interviewed John Maeda about the Simplicity project. If you don’t already know of John Maeda then I highly recommend you get to know about him. Hes a Professor at MIT who descibes himself as a visual artist […]

• 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 […]

• Interactive, MIT, Visual

  Boiling an Egg with the help of Interactive Architecture

  01.02.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Video (40Mb) - Example of using interactive architecture to boil an egg
  Video from Discovery Channel with Dr. Ted Selker of MIT talking about some of the projects.
  The real world is not a computer screen. When can augmented reality and ambient interfaces improve the usability of a physical environment? Context Aware Computing at MIT have […]

• Devices, Furniture, MIT, Visual

  Disco Dance Floor

  10.11.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Okay this isn’t ground breaking interactive architecture but I love the dedication.
  Watch the Video and check out the Documentation of the Project
  # 1,536 LEDs
  # 128 square feet
  # 4,096 colors
  # 30 frames/second
  # 20,000 hand-soldered connections
  All in one week!
  You got to give it to them, they really are the ultimate geeks at MIT. Its obviously been done […]

• MIT, Virtual, Visual

  Installation - MIT

  07.04.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  video
  Installation is a system designed by Simon Greenwold at the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab, consisting of a viewing window and a stylus with which users can create virtual forms and install them permanently into a real space. By tracking the position and orientation of the stylus and the window itself, […]

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