Entries from Orange Cone tagged with 'smart furniture'
2008 Milan Furniture Fair/Design Week interactive art review
Since launching BlinkM in February, I've been focused on the potential design uses of LED lighting. This years' Milan Furniture Fair (aka Milan Design Week, since it's branched out significantly beyond furniture to design of all kinds of consumer products...
Harry Potter spell voice control and smart furniture from Pottery Barn
Ruth points me to a voice control Instructable that's Harry Potter spell-themed. Voice commands for computers have existed in the periphery for a long time, and they have always had a kind of incantation quality, but it's interesting to see...
A mobile-phone/lamp for personal surveillance
I don't advocate the implicit weirdness of such a device, since I can't think of any case where using it doesn't imply some seriously screwed-up priorities, but this lamp that hides a secret GSM camera is an interesting example...
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...
Smart Furniture + IKEA
A group in Switzerland has been doing some interesting experiments with technology embedded in everyday objects that helps people use those objects. Two of their papers were mentioned on Engadget and I enjoyed what they had to say. One paper,...
National's Smart Bed
It looks like National (aka Matsushita/Panasonic) is launching a smart bed. It's a combination of a bed with a pressure-sensitive pad (roughly serving a similar duty to the sensors in Stanford's Sleepsmart project [120K PDF]) and an ambient environment that's...
Smart Furniture in Fiction
A short story about the animist perils of ubicomp.
Smart Furniture Manifesto v2
Version 2 of the Smart Furniture Manifesto, as published in the June 2004 issue of Metropolis Magazine
"Remote Furniture" at SIGGRAPH
Noriyuki Fujimura's "Remote Furniture" piece is a nice smart furniture piece with two rocking chairs that create a conversation.
Adam on Smart Furniture
Adam Greenfield challenges my Smart Furniture Manifesto.
Smart Furniture Side Show, Part 3
I conclude my 2ad Smart Furniture Side Show talk by talking about cars and concluding by noting that all of these are just examples of the kinds of questions that we can start asking about how technology can be included into every objects.
Smart Furniture Side Show, Part 2
I continue my 2ad talk transcript by talking about beds and office cubicles.
Smart Furniture Side Show, Part 1
I argue that smart furniture is the augmentation of a class of everyday objects so that people have to learn less and yet whole new classes of questions can be asked of the objects in our environment.
Money for Smart Objects
Two companies, MagInk and Symphonix, who are interested in creating smart everyday objects, get money (one as venture, one as a buyout).
Two Furniture Fairs (part 3)
I look back at the smart objects I saw at the Milan and New York furniture fairs. I only find one thing that really seems like genuinely useful smart furniture, but finding one thing is still incredibly exciting.
Smart Furniture Side Show
I'm at the the Appliance Design Conference in Bristol, doing the Smart Furniture Side Show.
Drift Table and Critical Design
I find the Drift Table, which is cool, but reminds me of the fact that I don't think that RCA's Critical Design philosophy should be called design. It's confusing how something is made and what it's made of with its meaning.
Smart Furniture: Beds
I started thinking of smart beds. Beds seem like a pretty logical platform for incorporating intelligence into furniture. Beds are large, stationary, near electrical outlets and used every day, pretty much at the same time. So I brainstormed on what kinds of smart bed technologies there could be.
Smart Furniture: what's been done?
I look for extant smart furniture and only find two things: Maribeth Back and Jonathan Cohen's Listen Reader and Trinity College's Smart Couch.
Smart Furniture Manifesto Comments
I answer people's responses to my Smart Furniture Manifesto.
The Smart Furniture Manifesto
Furniture will be smart!
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