Entries from Orange Cone tagged with 'appliance'
Smart Lights: where ethernet-over-power is useful
This is an outline of a project that I've had on the drawing board for years, and it looks like I'm not going to actually instantiate it, so I decided today (after being prompted by a foo camp mailing list...
Sketching Smart Things 3, borrowed purses and smart hammers
I spoke last night at Berkeley's School of Information Future of Interaction Design lecture series, presenting the "Sketching Smart Things" talk I gave at BayCHI last month and at CHIFOO the month before. I'm evolving this talk, rather than doing...
Whirlpool centralpark, Cozi and "domestic groupware"
Here here's your latest computer fridge news: Whirlpool has partnered with a domestic groupware software company called Cozi. Right now, it's just a branding partnership with Cozi's calendar/to-do list/grocery list etc. software for families, but it's clear where this is...
Sketching Smart Things 2: the BayCHI version
Last night I presented a version of the Sketching Smart Things talk I gave last month at CHIFOO to BayCHI. It was an honor to be invited to speak there because BayCHI is such an institution in the HCI world...
Sketching Smart Things, a presentation for CHIFOO
(photo from Flickr, (cc) dailydog) CHIFOO, the CHI forum of Oregon, invited me to speak at their January gathering, and it was an honor and a pleasure to accept their invitation. Their lecture theme this year is "From Ideation...
Evolution of the Fridge Computer
Doing some research for my upcoming CHIFOO presentation, I realized that there have been a number of attempts at merging computers and refrigerators. Here's a timeline: 1998: The V-sync "Internet Refrigerator" "With a speedy Pentium II microprocessor and huge hard...
Notes on recent developments in furniture
I started keeping track of interesting developments in furniture design recently. I'm primarily focused on the integration of furniture and technology (call it "smart furniture" ;-). Most of these have been collected from the gadget blogs over the last couple...
WineM, a ThingM technology sketch
I've talked about video scenarios and sketching before. Well, now that ThingM is up and rolling, i figured it was time to practice what I was preaching. Today we put the first of our Technology Sketches, which are video scenarios...
Why we need a good appliance communication protocol
I was recently reading Fred Wilson's thoughts on user generated devices: Yes, the web has brought this power of the user to the forefront of our society, enough to make us the person of the year. That's cool. But...
Whirlpool's in.home project
I returned from a week at the Milan Furniture Fair yesterday (I've put a large collection of unsorted pictures from the Fair on Flickr). It's my third year going to the Fair, and I always find it a fascinating experience....
Hybrid White Goods
The Consumer Electronics Association, which (I'm guessing) sets the agenda for the development of second-generation electronics manufacturers (the ones who are making stuff that was cutting edge last year cheaper this year) has put out a report (400K PDF) which...
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