Mass Distraction

Mass Distraction is a thesis project from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. Agnelli Davide and Drori Tal designed 3 jackets that challenge the experience of balancing your attention between the friend right next to you and the person calling your mobile phone. We all know how rude some people can get when the cell phone rings– all of a sudden, mid sentence even, their attention …

ZipDecode

Ben Fry is a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on methods of visualizing large amounts of data from dynamic information sources. ZipDecode is a very simple visualization of how US zip codes are mapped. Every zip code is represented by a dot; as you press the number keys that correspond to a zip code, the dots from that area are …

Fashionable Technology

My friend Sabine teaches a super cool class at Parson’s that’s all about Fashion and Technology. Last semesters course work had some great snowboarding concepts. Let’s see what they come up with this Spring.