Beautiful IBM Illustrations (RT @AmirKassaei)
No comment needed - it' all in there.
Thanks to Peter Glaser for finding this.
"Some people interpreted the Geotaggers' World Atlas maps to be maps of tourism. This set is an attempt to figure out if that is really true. Some cities (for example Las Vegas and Venice) do seem to be photographed almost entirely by tourists. Others seem to have many pictures taken in piaces that tourists don't visit. ..."
Blue - locals
Red - tourists
Yellow - unknown
read and see more here http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/
In early 2007 the Spanish bank BBVA asked IDEO Munich to re-think their self-service channel from scratch. The question was not how to further automate the teller, but rather how to humanize the machine. ...
The result of that work is the vision for a totally new self-service experience: an ATM built from user up, rather than components down. ...
Today, that vision is reality. It took 2 years of time and a team of committed companies to develop this ATM.
check out: http://www.futureselfservicebanking.com/
we're getting there!
via infosthetics.com: "... Bing Destination Maps [bing.com] seems quite interesting as a new way of rendering geographical maps in a more visually simplified, understandable and accessible way. In other words, imagine one can now create a sort of information-optimized summary maps, similar to those you would quickly draw yourself on the back of napkin. ..."
Check out the article here http://createdigitalmotion.com/2010/04/meet-cinder-free-barbarian-group-code-...
and then go here http://libcinder.org/ to see the site
and meet the makers here http://www.barbariangroup.com/
Thanks to Andrian Kreye (http://blogs.sueddeutsche.de/feuilletonist/) for finding this.
In his short animation Augmented (Hyper)Reality, Keiichi Matsuda’s offers a glimpse of an alternate universe, with augmented reality cranked up to the next level. But what to think of these kind of slick animations that provide us with either utopian or dystopian visions of our technofuture? ...
read it all at http://www.nextnature.net/2010/02/augmented-hyperreality/
The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.
See the interactive graph here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html
Another project (done in 2007) that we can now talk about: With the MyFord Touch, IDEO helped conceive signature interface elements for all future Ford vehicles launching in 2010. The elements connect drivers with in-car technologies and let them stay connected to their digital lives outside the car. Read the case study here: http://www.ideo.com/work/item/myford-touch/
This was introduced by Ford some days ago at the CES - watch it here: http://www.thefordstory.com/smart-technology/ces-keynote-speech/ - scroll down to the 3rd video and go to minute 26...
some other posts about it:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/myford-dash-and-sync-app-ecosystem-make-us-want-a-blue-oval/
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2010/01/ford_and_ideo_r.html
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2010/01/myford_touch_in.php
There are so many projects we can never talk about - so it's great that we can show this: The Bayer Contour is a portable blood-glucose meter and test strips and pioneered the measuring of glycated hemoglobinis. It's the first meter that plugs directly into a computer and auto-launches diabetes management software, providing diabetes patients and their healthcare professionals with instant access to blood sugar data and trends to help optimize diabetes management.
Read all about it here: http://www.ideo.com/work/item/contour-usb/ and visit the website: http://www.bayercontourusb.de/
The trends and events that dominated the past decade in icons and buzzwords. Yes, nice! Thanks Paul & Soraya.
"in 2008 David Friedman published ... something that he called The Bulbdial Clock. That's like a sundial, but with better resolution-- not just an hour hand, but a minute and second hand as well, each given as a shadow from moving artificial light sources (bulbs). ..."
Have a look how the Mad Scientist iterated on that: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/go/bulbdial
(via saman rahmanian)
"A production version of Beck's pocket Underground map, No 1 (1936)"
Thanks Lydia!
