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I Love Lamp, Watering, Lighting, Twittering Plants, Locative Games.. weekly wrap.

picklesno1 — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:12:09 +0000

Social objects, the internet of things, talking, twittering plants, networked nature, geolocation and locative games, flashmobs, the budget, and zombies… all things that continue to move slowly forward.

This week an interesting hardware and designware mashup by designer Mikhail St Denis called ILoveLamp combines home automation lamps, a Botanicalls twittering plants type interface, automatic watering, and windowfarms localized apartment-level lighting into a compact design concept that would be interesting to see in distribution. With a named reference to the awesome Anchorman scene “I Love Lamp” how can you go wrong?

I Love Lamp:

I Love Lamp by Mikhail St Denis:

Of course there’s also the “i love lamp” iphone app, which monitors your real-life lava-lamp. But those dont breathe yet.

In other news, prepping a talk on first 10 years of locative games, and running a few Budgetball games at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London tomorrow night

Games, Communities, and Democracy

picklesno1 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:31:54 +0000

Kevin Slavin from Area/Code and I will be speaking at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s and the Council on Foundations‘ 2009 Media Learning Seminar on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy Event Monday, February 16 in Miami. We will be speaking about the power of games and civic engagement. I’ll be speaking about 3 Area/Code projects: Ant City, Budgetball and the upcoming Pathfinders.

Institute for the Future/Picnic Recap/Botanicalls Kits for Sale

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:47:10 +0000

I’ll be speaking tomorrow at the Institute for the Future’s Fall Horizon’s Conference in San Francisco – I’m speaking with Julian Bleeker (yay!), in a nutshell I’m speaking about how smart objects and emotional cues can create bizarre conversations between people and non-human points of view…should be fun

Recently, as a part of You Are Not Here, Mushon Zer-Aviv and I were invited to speak at Waag Society’s Locative Media Lab at Picnic 2008. While we were there, we had a great time working with the folks from the Waag on Madretsma, which…if you speak Dutch, you should check out Madretsma.

In Botanicalls news…our new Kits were featured in the November 2008 issue of Wired Magazine in an article on open source hardware by Clive Thompson.

Kits are now on sale at: Think Geek and Adafruit and other vendors coming very soon!

ETech09 CFP, thoughts: recycling urine, air purifying concrete, fiscal crisis, and more stuff

admin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:25:23 +0000

ETech09 – O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference CFP Released
submit something and rock our worlds!

things i’m thinking about…

recycling urine, “ISS gets new recycling gear that transforms human waste to drinking water. Some of the water will be used to get Oxygene, too. This way it will soon be possible to host more crew members.”

air purifying concrete

fiscal game

Locative Lab at Picnic08

predicting national grid problems:
“The Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on Earth (VERDE) system, announced this week, mashes together images and stats of everything from real-time status of the electric grid and weather information to power grid behavior modeling and simulation.”

Nerds At Night

DLD08: Round Up

picklesno1 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:39:26 +0000

Kevin Slavin invited me to be a part of the Digital Gets Physical Panel at Hubert Burda Media’s DLD08 Conference in Munich, Germany. It was a great opportunity to talk with Julian Bleeker, Neri Oxman and Ohad Eder-Pressman — each of whom had very different thoughts and approaches to the topic. My talk specifically was about using technology to create interruptive experiences in daily life.

Link: sevenload.com