Cool Hunting

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Glass Can

by Josh Rubin

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File under not new, but still cool: Last December, Monica Bonvicini, an LA based artist, installed a public toilet cased in 1 way glass outside London's Tate Britain Gallery. What a genius method for challenging people's sense of privacy and modesty.

more at bbc news

Fluidtime

by Josh Rubin

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Fluidtime is another project from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. The goal of Fluidtime is to use text messaging for negotiating the use of shared resources. For the Ivrea students, this means getting to class on time and keeping their clothes clean. The prototype system explores how the real value in location based services is when they are connected to people and information, instead of just information alone (a la a restaurant finder or advertising spam).

via collision detection


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