Timo Arnall runs a research project called Touch at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design and is quite happy to jump on an Internet of Things bandwagon: “We are looking at ways in which we can participate in digital environments without being in front of a screen. For us, the Internet of Things is not a future scenario, but something we are actively designing with our pragmatic and actionable research.” For Timo there are three main levels of user experience with the Internet of Things: Tangible and embodied objects, connectivity and sharing, visualization and reflection.
RFID technology is one of the fundamental building blocks: “We’ve been collecting RFID objects from around the world for the last couple of years. Tiny wireless chips that can be embedded inside clothes - really ubiquitous and relatively mundane. There are about two billion RFID chips in use daily in the world. RFID becomes so entrenched in everyday life, it’s not interesting technically anymore but it’s interesting what the cultural and social consequences might be” finds Timo and adds “of course, there’s more to tangible interaction than just RFID – the objects that we carry with us are beginning to sense a lot more about the world than they previously did.”
With their interaction industrial design, the people from Touch are looking at ways in which interaction takes place outside the traditional context and are trying to find playful uses of both objects and media – a tangible toy dog that accompanies children in everyday situations or an RFID reader for the iPhone.
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At the picnic conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, I met Rafi Haladjian, a successfull serial entrepreneur. With his actual company violet he explodes the boundaries between technology and daily life, focussing on the connection of the virtual and physical world, making applications more fun than just smart - as the Nabaztag rabbit demonstrates.
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Nabaztag is the Armenian word for rabbit, there is a special Nabazblog telling for example that there is now also a black Nabaztag version available. The little cute rabbit has a wide range of functionalities for example he can update you about the twitter status of your friends.
Mir:ror or mirror, the new product of violet, is a USB-pluggable RFID reader which is able to connect everything you own. Making it possible that a tagged umbrella launches the weather forecast if you hold it next to the mirror. See here, here and there for reviews about that new product.
You want to know more about the founder of violet? Go to the Armeniapedia to get a short overview about Rafi Haladjian, his personal background and his company. After entering the telecommunications industry in 1983, he pioneered the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in France in 1994, FranceNet, and sold it in 2003 to British Telecom. For more information you can also follow Rafi Haladjian's french blog.
From 24 to 26 September 2008, thousands of creative minds from all over the world came together in Amsterdam for the third PICNIC. For nice fotos, shot at the event follow the link to the eventsite picnicnetwork.org
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Image via Wikipedia
Nabaztag is the Armenian word for rabbit, there is a special Nabazblog telling for example that there is now also a black Nabaztag version available. The little cute rabbit has a wide range of functionalities for example he can update you about the twitter status of your friends.
Mir:ror or mirror, the new product of violet, is a USB-pluggable RFID reader which is able to connect everything you own. Making it possible that a tagged umbrella launches the weather forecast if you hold it next to the mirror. See here, here and there for reviews about that new product.
You want to know more about the founder of violet? Go to the Armeniapedia to get a short overview about Rafi Haladjian, his personal background and his company. After entering the telecommunications industry in 1983, he pioneered the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in France in 1994, FranceNet, and sold it in 2003 to British Telecom. For more information you can also follow Rafi Haladjian's french blog.
From 24 to 26 September 2008, thousands of creative minds from all over the world came together in Amsterdam for the third PICNIC. For nice fotos, shot at the event follow the link to the eventsite picnicnetwork.org
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