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Last month, when involved in a teaching seminar in France, I ran across this utterly curious scene. It’s basically a cell-phone with a piece of paper that shows a drawing, stuck on the device’s display. The drawing features a sort of animal quickly scribbled. This is exactly the sort of artifact that I like to [...] Continue reading
© 2012 Nicolas. All rights reserved.
© 2012 Nicolas. All rights reserved.
Yesterday, in a very small village in the French Alps, I ran across this fascinating bread vending machine. It made me think about other encounters with not-so-common machines such as a book delivery system in Seoul: Or this pr0n vending machine in Torino: And the camera/umberall combo in Bergen, Norway: Why do I blog this? [...] Continue reading
© 2012 Nicolas. All rights reserved.
Yesterday, in a very small village in the French Alps, I ran across this fascinating bread vending machine. It made me think about other encounters with not-so-common machines such as a book delivery system in Seoul: Or this pr0n vending machine in Torino: And the camera/umberall combo in Bergen, Norway: Why do I blog this? [...] Continue reading
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Why do I blog this? Simply because I love this visualization as a way to show path-dependence.
© 2012 Nicolas. All rights reserved.
Stuck at the airport in Austin the other day, I couldn’t help being fascinated by the three TVs in a café. Each of them was on a different program (news + sport 1 + sport 2) and the sounds of each channel was mixed with the background noise of the place (+ music). The different [...] Continue reading
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Few examples of technology/software-enabled spatiality encountered in Los Angeles last week: First, this marvelous dashboard from a Toyota Prius, an energy monitor that dynamically gives indications to the driver. As soon as I got into the taxi, I became fascinated by this visualization, it looks like a weird video-game (especially if you consider the joystick-shaped [...] Continue reading
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A Wii Mote and a Wii ‘KLIK-on’ Candy Dispenser which uses the ‘B’ trigger control to dispense little candy pills. Something Tom Clancy — the guy who writes worlds he wishes he inhabited, which is always a good motivation for … Continue reading
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© 2009 Julian. All rights reserved.
In a busy, bustling hipster bar called The Alibi Room in Culver City California, you’ll get a magician-sized playing card to identify you as the party who ordered two flights of spicy pork korean BBQ tacos, fries and a couple … Continue reading
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It amazes me how non-relevant this topic is, particularly nowadays when there can be little reason to entice a consumer to engage in letting loose of whatever cash they may have. By the time we get out of the current … Continue reading