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Analog Defender
The Peripherals Initiative was a Toronto experiment to see what happens when you put together indie game creators and hardware hackers and give them a parts budget, organisational support and a brief...
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FITC Screens
Earlier this week I was at Screens, a Toronto conference by FITC billed as “one of the only events in the world designed for developers of all platforms of screen content.”. I followed my usual...
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The Art of the Recently Possible
Chris Heathcote describes himself as a designer whose medium is the recently possible. That’s a pretty exciting thing to be during our explosion of digital technology which throws out an awful lot of...
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Recently Possible Pt2 – Smart Public Screens
Last post I talked about designing with the recently possible. This is a mode of creating I love. Constantly watching what technology and ingenuity are making possible and filtering those new...
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RFID enabled data-viz project
A fun project I worked on with Anthea Foyer for the Centre for Faculty Development at U of T/Saint Mike’s. Moving RFID tokens round on an internally glowing table causes the dataviz of the facility’s...
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Snippets of creative tech – vol.1
As an experiment this the new year I am going to send out occasional newsletters containing a handful of links I find interesting. I will likely continue to publish these here on my blog, but please do...
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Snippets of creative tech – bike barometer, firefly/skateboard, smart objects
Here’s the online version of my regular newsletter of interesting creative tech things upon which I have stumbled. You can subscribe here. The Bicycle Barometer is a neat melding of public data into a...
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Snippets – interesting interfaces & impressive images
Here’s a clutch of links to creative tech stuff I’ve stumbled onto recently. If you like these, please do to subscribe to receive a semi-regular email of this stuff. Eon Surf is the latest work by Dev...
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Observations on Eyeo and the psyche of a creative technologist
Amit Pitaru talking about Sonic Wire Sculptor I’m lucky to be in Minneapolis right now for the brilliant Eyeo Festival full of great art/tech/data vis people. I was here in 2011 for the first Eyeo and...
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Eyeo 2013 pt II – Genius edition
The brilliant speakers at Eyeo Festival 2013 closing This second post on my Eyeo impressions is likely to be even more scattered and fragmentary than the first, but here it is. Amit Pitaru...
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