Tag Archives: Technology

Five Questions To Reinier De Graaf (OMA)

The famous annual multidisciplinary conference TED is spreading across the globe. As of 2010, so-called TEDx events have been held in over 60 countries. Under the slogan ‘somethink

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CityCAD Version 2.0 Released

Master plans, urban plans, and regional plans are most of the times extremely complex. Not only because a huge amount of actors is involved, but also because of a load…

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Mapping The Neighborhood Aura

How’s the aura of my neighborhood today? How are people around me feeling? Recently launched iPhone app Glow attempts to give an answer to these issues by mapping…

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AR Landscaping In Central Park

During Arbor Day Weekend QR codes were seeded across New York City’s Central Park, transforming it into a mobile interactive experience. The QR codes we formerly used to…

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Flyfire: Pixel Swarms As Displays

It’s a good idea to visit the website of MIT’s Senseable City Lab from time to time. It showcases plenty of refreshing projects and experiments that aim to…

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The Next Big Annoyance In Loaded Trains

SixthSense presents the narrow escape for old media. As digital spaces seem to take over a lot of functions that used to be present in…

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NANO Supermarket

Since the rise of Philips’ Foodprinter and the amazing developments in 3D printing we made some speculations on future shopping on this blog. What, for…

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Eno, The Black Dog And The Airport

This is the first time I will discuss music on this blog. But it’s relevant, and yes, of course we love music. Especially the music that is written, mixed or…

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Urban Defender

“What if you could run through the city and capture all buildings? What if you could take over the buildings of your opponent to expand your territory?” A…

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Who Drives The Future Car?

Pedro Miguel Cruz has published some videos of his master thesis in information visualization and interaction design at DEI/FBA. The visualizations display the traffic evolution in…

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The IBM Data Baby, Or: When Data Rules The World

Within Pop-Up City circles, one could consider me the critical reviewer, grumbling in the background, pointing at the more ethical dimension of some of the things posted here (see my…

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The Digital Kiosk

More and more people are using tablet computers and e-readers to read books, magazines and newspapers. So, what will the kiosk of the future look like? To which extent will…

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3D Printers To The People!

3D printing becomes increasingly relevant, and we love to observe how it’s developing these days. During the weekend I saw an article of Make Magazine passing by about…

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Why Not Print Buildings?

During our explorations in fresh developments in architecture we already found plenty of nifty projects, ideas and concepts that have the potential to totally reframe the production of the physical…

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Rethinking Mobile Interfaces

Some days ago I came across an article on PSFK featuring Little World, a fresh user interface concept for mobile phones which was developed by Kevin

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