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David Kelley Demos the Touch Tag

by Ryan Lane on April 1, 2010

See David Kelley of Wirestone demonstrate his prototype for building immersive retail experiences. As a customer approaches a product, the price tag, display and even the placement wall can all come alive with this integrated application. This was built using the Arduino Ping prototype mentioned in my previous post WPF Sonar application using Arduino and PING))) sensor
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David J Kelley on Windows 7 Touch and Wirestone

by Ryan Lane on March 22, 2010

David J Kelley on Windows 7 Touch and Wirestone from Interact on Vimeo.

Our own David Kelley talking on camera at the MVP summit about Windows 7 touch technologies, touch tags and their projects in the retail space

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Exploring Electronics at the MIT Media Lab

by Ryan Lane on November 8, 2009

I really like the idea of the wall painted as a circuit. I’d also like to see more done with the Arduino LilyPad with sensors on clothing. Could be an interesting way to build monitoring clothes for scientific research cheaply.

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Papercraft Self Portrait by Eric Testroete

by Ryan Lane on November 3, 2009

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Made using:

  • 3ds Max 2009
  • Mudbox 2010
  • Photoshop CS3
  • Pepakura

Really amazing results.  I totally want to go and make a whole bunch of these.

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clyckslexia

July 6, 2009

Word of the day: clyckslexia When a user double clicks the submit button, or double click web links.

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Don Norman: The Design of Future Things

June 10, 2009
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IDEO’s Paul Bennett

June 8, 2009

1. IDEO’s Paul Bennett on Icelandic TV (1 of 3) from IDEO on Vimeo. 2. IDEO’s Paul Bennett on Icelandic TV (2 of 3) from IDEO on Vimeo. More videos about IDEO on Vimeo

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Don Norman on 3 ways good design makes you happy

June 7, 2009
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Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus

May 2, 2008

While I was at the Web 2.0 Expo last week I saw Clay Shirky give a talk on Cognitive Surplus. Out of all the things I learned at the event this one has really stuck with me. You can find the the full transcription online as well. I need to get his new book “Here [...]

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Information in Formation: An Interview with Peter Morville

February 21, 2007

Reprinted from Roy Christopher’s blog Since its original publication in 1998, Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld’s Information Architecture for the World Wide Web — a.k.a. “the polar bear book” — has been the standard text and handbook for information architects. The recently released third edition has been updated and expanded to include the user-driven aspects [...]

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