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"Fiction now meets reality with prototype contact lenses developed by Babak Parviz at the University of Washington, in Seattle. Dr. Parviz’s prototype lenses can be used as biosensors to display body chemistry or as a heads up display (HUD). Powered by radio waves and 330 microwatts of power from a loop antenna that picks up power beamed from nearby radio sources, future versions will also be able to harvest power from a cell phone."
Archive for November, 2009
links for 2009-11-27
Friday, November 27th, 2009Hiatus = writing PhD
Thursday, November 26th, 2009I’m not going to flatter myself that many people actually follow this blog but, nevertheless, I thought I ought to briefly post to say I’m knee-deep in writing what has become known as the ‘bloody thesis’ and so can’t come to the web as much as I might like. I hope to get back to posting a little more regularly in 2010, once I’ve handed in the aforementioned loathsome pile of paper sandwiched between two sheets of card.
In the meantime I spout sporadic inanities on twitter, cos it can be done quickly(!), which can be found here: twitter.com/samkinsley.
links for 2009-11-13
Friday, November 13th, 2009-
Excellent talk exploring various concerns for the practicalities of living with ubicomp, which is - electricity plus connections via wires or radio waves plus people using the technology and constructing behaviours around it/ molding it to existing behaviours. Questions arise: how do we think about the changing nature of what we understand to be a product or a service? how do we navigate social and spatial relations with and through ubicomp technologies? how do we design things that blur the product/service dilineation and accomodate the other questions?
links for 2009-11-11
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009-
"City ID develop unique design, information and wayfinding solutions to fully integrate people, movement and places. We combine thinking, ideas, planning and outstanding design direction to make cities more welcoming, engaging and easier to navigate."
