Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

Categories

Posts from August 2007

Teleshadow (Shadow Lamp)

Shunpei Yasuda, a post-graduate student in Media Design at Japan’s Keio University has created Teleshadow, a piece of electronic furniture shaped like a lamp that mediates presence across a geographical distance by recording video and transforming it into what looks like puppets on a shoji or paper wall. In Japanese homes these walls protect the [...]


Facebook for iPhone

If you don’t know already, Facebook has an iPhone-optimised version of its desktop site. In some ways, the simple context + refine aspect beats the full sized version when you just want that quick fix. With this, I could imagine someone using a standalone touch screen purely for Facebook and putting it besides their desktop [...]


Step-Powered Energy

Wow, it’s been three months since the last post about. I’m getting into writing mode again!
Students at the school of architecture and planning at MIT, James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk have invented Crowd Farming: a renewable energy source where tiles are designed to fall slightly lower when stepped on, where a small generator placed below [...]