Today is the final day of preparation for the New Designers exhibition tomorrow. This includes finishing the website http://raveinteraction.com and picking up the trump cards. That’s right, we have trump cards. The theme of the show for Ravensbourne Interaction is ping pong. We have a ping pong table, 600 ping pong balls, 15 paddles, 1000 [...]

The initial idea was to find new and innovative ways to organise data. This then evolved into organising and navigating photos which in turn mutated into a new approach to photo sharing. Throughout the whole process there has never been one ‘big’ idea until researching future technologies and the future of the internet. Reading into [...]

There is a new blog in town! For the collaborative major project this term, a new blog has been set up hosted by those kind people at WordPress.com. It will contain most of the information relating to the project progression. http://0wallpaper.wordpress.com

I have been offered a work placement at ITV Future Technologies in Camden. Great! I’m not writing about that now but I’m sure I will post about what I can while I’m working there. It has got me thinking about my future though. What do I want to do? Who do I want to do [...]

After searching YouTube for a while today looking for new and interesting things and stuff, I came across an advert for Microsoft Surface technology. The Rio in Las Vegas has recently installed Surface and the ad demonstrates a few ways in which the technology can be used. The usual things appear such as seeing what [...]

So who broke Facebook? Come on, own up. I’ve noticed recently that Facebook is having a whole bunch of problems that are quite serious isues with regard to users. These include: Photo tag requests are not displayed correctly – when you click to view the tag request it appears people have tagged the search button, [...]

I was browsing around YouTube to find some videos about Microsoft surface to post about the actual point of it all as I was discussing today that the only thing you can do with most touch screens is look at photos, resize them and have a really cluttered desktop. Anyway, I came across the promotional [...]

This is a really cool use of touch screens and interactive visuals in a DJ music environment. This would have been great for Rave On Air and it seems to show great use of new digital media taking over again from the ‘analogue world’.

It seems everyone is getting on this paperless band wagon these days. Only yesterday I wrote about the new A4 sized E-paper developed by Epson. Well today folks its Wacom (made famous by their drawing tablets) in partnership with E Ink announcing they have made a pen input e-paper. They are describing it as “the [...]

I came across this video that shows what plain old-fashion ingenuity can do. The guy from MIT (surprise) thought of everything that a person might need and tried to make a machine that could do it all. This is obviously a prototype but the concept is sound. The principle is to ‘make’ the pates on-demand [...]

I was reading through my RSS feeds as I so often do and I came across this article which made me realise just how far we have come and how little we need to go to become a completely paperless society. Epson have been developing electronic paper for a while now, previously producing a 7″ [...]

But the war is not between man and machine but between moths with machines… and other moths with other machines…? Believe it or not there are companies experimenting with robots and moths that are very reminiscent of two very famous films. Terminator-Moth The idea of an internal robot occupying the space of the moths ‘entrails’ [...]

I was browsing TED Talks and came across this video. The guy is basically designing new forms of life, at the level of bacteria but still he managed to transfer a chromosome from one to another and get the new chromosome to overwrite the existing one by making it think the existing one was foreign. [...]

I was reading this article and was amazed to see the progress of solid state drives (SSD). It wasn’t that long ago when it was expensive enough to buy a 64MB pen drive and now a company is preparing to ship “in volume” a 1.6TB drive for use in computing. This really is moving on [...]