5. There is nothing to worry about…
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Is usability obsolete?
Field shifting a laptop to a tablet…
Tangible bit porn (hmm, not sure if that sounds right)
Siftables has come along a little bit since last we met…
Roblocks is a bit more active variant…
And Topobo is actually for sale (in limited prototype form)…
An article in the New York Times has a brief mention of one of the projects we worked on, in the article its called Healthsense… the guys at Healthsense have got some pretty powerful evidence that just sensing if someone in their home has stopped doing what they do routinely you can reduce mortality substantially (unfortunately in a home without this sort of service, when someone at home is incapacitated the issue isn’t discovered for 8 or more hours… just reducing the time to discover trouble makes a huge difference, particularly with elderly home owners). They use a series of sensors including a bed sensor, toilet flush and shower sensor, motion sensor, and sometimes sensors on refrigerators and kitchen cupboards (and then software and people to monitor and check in on the users).
Agricultural Sabotage… or pharms of mass distruction…
But this one’s even better, made out of cardboard!
New game with nice visual style (yes I’m a sucker for hand drawn, Lebbeus Woods style stuff)…
Spooky fun with medical devices…
I always wanted something like this for when I worked in photoshop or illustrator (well I’d actually love it for the students and college grads that come in to interview so I could actually see how they think instead of just an end product)… I guess what I’d really want is this plus a sketchbook or storyboard maker that automatically turns all my interstitial explorations into frames in a series. The value of this sort of thing is really in the pathway to a solution. The place I found this link noted that historians love to find notebooks from authors because they are a treasure trove of background about why something was phrased a certain way or how the mind of an author works.
Mark Cuban is always entertaining and provocative. He’s just come out with his own stimulus plan.