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Fifty Years of Exploration: Space Infographic
(16 October 2009) - The National Geographic's Fifty Years of Exploration beautifully charts the paths taken by astronauts on historic missions to space—including both failed and triumphant attempts—visually pinpointing specific interests in various planets and comets. Also noted, the current positions held by spacecrafts like the Pioneer10 and robotic probes such as Voyager 1, along with current expeditions including the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Messenger...
(16 October 2009) - The National Geographic's Fifty Years of Exploration beautifully charts the paths taken by astronauts on historic missions to space—including both failed and triumphant attempts—visually pinpointing specific interests in various planets and comets. Also noted, the current positions held by spacecrafts like the Pioneer10 and robotic probes such as Voyager 1, along with current expeditions including the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Messenger...
Good Magazine: Transparency
(02 October 2009) - Good Magazine definitely lives up to its title, so discovering their Flickr page aggregating one of our favorite regular features, spreads of their info-graphics called Transparency, feels like striking Good gold. The colorful charts cleverly break down a host of topics—teacher salaries, energy generation, public transit, the cost of museum tickets and much more— into easily understood charts for information-addicts' browsing pleasure. via Exp...
(02 October 2009) - Good Magazine definitely lives up to its title, so discovering their Flickr page aggregating one of our favorite regular features, spreads of their info-graphics called Transparency, feels like striking Good gold. The colorful charts cleverly break down a host of topics—teacher salaries, energy generation, public transit, the cost of museum tickets and much more— into easily understood charts for information-addicts' browsing pleasure. via Exp...
DigiLens
(27 April 2009) - Delivering digital images from a smartphone or PDA to your eye, SBG Labs' optical technology prototype DigiLens makes it possible to seamlessly layer virtual information over physical reality. Built from holographic optical switching technology, the DigiLens diffracts specific wavelengths and polarizations of light and guides them to the user's eye. To date, eyeglasses, which can store the necessary light-emitting laser diode in the side...
(27 April 2009) - Delivering digital images from a smartphone or PDA to your eye, SBG Labs' optical technology prototype DigiLens makes it possible to seamlessly layer virtual information over physical reality. Built from holographic optical switching technology, the DigiLens diffracts specific wavelengths and polarizations of light and guides them to the user's eye. To date, eyeglasses, which can store the necessary light-emitting laser diode in the side...
Tâke Personal Pocket Safe
(02 July 2008) - One problem that comes with the internet's high level of data fluidity is how to keep your most private information private. Black Box Innovations attempts to ameliorate the issue with the Tâke Personal Pocket Safe. What appears to be an average flash drive is loaded with unique software to help organize all of your personal records. It includes fields for everything from your credit...
(02 July 2008) - One problem that comes with the internet's high level of data fluidity is how to keep your most private information private. Black Box Innovations attempts to ameliorate the issue with the Tâke Personal Pocket Safe. What appears to be an average flash drive is loaded with unique software to help organize all of your personal records. It includes fields for everything from your credit...
PSFK Conference: Trends, Inspiration and Creative Ideas
(24 August 2007) - After seeing great success at their Spring 2007 conferences in London and New York, PSFK will host its third symposium in the City of Angels Tuesday 18 September 2007. In accordance with PSFK's mission to "make things better," the conference furthers the blog's initiative to promote positive change in the way we live by featuring specialists from various art, entertainment and design industries who...
(24 August 2007) - After seeing great success at their Spring 2007 conferences in London and New York, PSFK will host its third symposium in the City of Angels Tuesday 18 September 2007. In accordance with PSFK's mission to "make things better," the conference furthers the blog's initiative to promote positive change in the way we live by featuring specialists from various art, entertainment and design industries who...
We Feel Fine
(31 May 2006) - For almost a year now Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar have been scanning blogs to find and catalog human feelings. We Feel Fine is their database and visualization of several million emotional statements found by searching blog posts for the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling." Viewable in six different modes or movements as they call them, the site is a brilliant artistic...
(31 May 2006) - For almost a year now Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar have been scanning blogs to find and catalog human feelings. We Feel Fine is their database and visualization of several million emotional statements found by searching blog posts for the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling." Viewable in six different modes or movements as they call them, the site is a brilliant artistic...
State of the Union Visualizer
(30 May 2006) - Brad Borevitz created this tool, simply named State of the Union, to visualize keywords from US presidential State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2006. Every address is included; for each one common words are displayed with the size showing how many times they were used in the speech and the height on the graph showing the word's significance as compared to other...
(30 May 2006) - Brad Borevitz created this tool, simply named State of the Union, to visualize keywords from US presidential State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2006. Every address is included; for each one common words are displayed with the size showing how many times they were used in the speech and the height on the graph showing the word's significance as compared to other...
Visual Complexity
(08 March 2006) - Visual Complexity is a listing of nearly 300 different information mapping projects. Compiled by Manuel Lima, a Portuguese information designer who recently finished his MFA at Parson's School of Design in New York, each entry includes a project overview and a link for more detail. Lima started VC as a method of cataloging research for his thesis, Blogviz—a dynamic map of information diffusion in...
(08 March 2006) - Visual Complexity is a listing of nearly 300 different information mapping projects. Compiled by Manuel Lima, a Portuguese information designer who recently finished his MFA at Parson's School of Design in New York, each entry includes a project overview and a link for more detail. Lima started VC as a method of cataloging research for his thesis, Blogviz—a dynamic map of information diffusion in...
Analog Executive Dashboard
(24 November 2004) - Ambient Devices, makers of that great glowing orb thing, have a new device on the market. The Executive Dashboard has swappable analog displays for monitoring everything from the stock market, to the volume of email in your inbox. Other modules include weather reports, traffic updates and meeting reminders-- all at a simple glance. In addition to the charm of providing an analog display to...
(24 November 2004) - Ambient Devices, makers of that great glowing orb thing, have a new device on the market. The Executive Dashboard has swappable analog displays for monitoring everything from the stock market, to the volume of email in your inbox. Other modules include weather reports, traffic updates and meeting reminders-- all at a simple glance. In addition to the charm of providing an analog display to...
Mainstreaming RSS
(21 May 2004) - Most simply stated, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for reading news and information Web sites. You may be reading this right now via RSS, or you may be looking at the actual Web page. For the time being, most people who use RSS do so by putting URLs for feeds in a news reader that allows them to aggregate all the sites they...
(21 May 2004) - Most simply stated, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for reading news and information Web sites. You may be reading this right now via RSS, or you may be looking at the actual Web page. For the time being, most people who use RSS do so by putting URLs for feeds in a news reader that allows them to aggregate all the sites they...
Mobile HCI, Visions of the Future
(21 September 2003) - Chris Heathcote recently attended Mobile HCI in Italy. He's shared his notes on the Visions of the Future panel discussion featuring: Mathias Schneider-Hufschmidt, Siemens Harri Kiljander (director of UI), Nokia Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research Marco Combetto, MS Research Matthias Hilpert, Orange Bruno von Niman, Ericsson (systems, not SE)...
(21 September 2003) - Chris Heathcote recently attended Mobile HCI in Italy. He's shared his notes on the Visions of the Future panel discussion featuring: Mathias Schneider-Hufschmidt, Siemens Harri Kiljander (director of UI), Nokia Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research Marco Combetto, MS Research Matthias Hilpert, Orange Bruno von Niman, Ericsson (systems, not SE)...
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