Month: April 2012
Norwegian Wood
Exploring Tactility In the week that I experimented with the laser-cutter at school, I decided to make something for my good friend and old flatmate Pato, who got married a month ago. Being unable to attend the ceremony back in Mexico, I chose to do something that they could touch and smell and that represented…
Project Cardboard
I know I’ve been talking a lot about these new cool Augmented Reality glasses Google’s Project Glass demoed recently. Even the Book of the Week (The End of Hardware) reflected the hands-free, future-is-now approach. And of course, I couldn’t help but share it with friends. I made a very “quick and dirty” prototyping experiment: create these…
Book of the Week: The End of Hardware
The End of Hardware They say “don’t judge a book by its cover” and I think that in this case, it rang true. Aside from the Clip-Art graphics on the cover, The End of Hardware, by Rolf R. Hainich talks about what a few years from now was in the edge of product development or…
Book of the Week: I Wonder
I Wonder I happened to see this wonderful book by Marian Bantjes on a bookshop as well as on the school’s library and it immediately caught my attention. I didn’t know what it was about, I didn’t even read the title, but I was drawn to how it felt like. It murmured touch me, hug…
The End of Hardware
As Rolf R. Hainich predicted in his book The End of Hardware (my review of the same coming soon), one day we will no longer need a computer, or a tablet, or a screen to augment our reality, to enhance what we see (use apps, for instance) or to connect with others. Well, that day…