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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

Botanicalls Homegrown Terra-rists Ignite Talk Video Posted…

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:57:05 +0000

This talk was from way back in September during Web2.0 Expo, you may want to skip past the intro…and start at 1:33. Botanicalls kits are still available at Think Geek and Maker Shed.

Check out some of these twittering plants:
Ficus Benjamina
Nepenthes – Frank the Plant in Pacifica, CA
Monstera deliciosa in Texas
Pothos, NYC: http://twitter.com/pothos
Jana’s plant in Thunder Bay, Ontario, CA
Botanicalls1, Germany
Spikes Dracaena located in New England
Mr. Ikea Plant, LES, NYC
Archibald Leaf aka Ficus Elastica located in London
Robert Plant, an orchid located in Greenwich, London

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!

Botanicalls @IgniteNYC & Conflux

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:22:23 +0000

Botanicalls Conflux Walking Tour of Manhattan Led by the Plants of NYC

Come by the B.Y.O.D. (Bring Your Own Device) Panel at Conflux on Thursday, September 11th at 1pm, or at IgniteNYC II on Monday, September 15th.

Stop by Conflux anytime Thursday – Sunday to pick up a map and take the tour.

Coming Fall 2008…brand new Botanicalls Kits!