Disconnect // why you need a digital detox
Baratunde Thurston is a man connected. In 2012 alone, the bestselling author, comedian, and CEO had a daily average of 4 Facebook posts, 32 Tweets, 163 Gmail conversations and 10 SMS threads. Collectively that’s 81,194 individual conversations or posts over the course of 365 days. A bit of technological gluttony by modest standards. Baratunde is not […]
Innovation in the classroom // Geddit
Imagine for a second that you’re back in high school. You walk into your history class, sling your backpack down on the floor next to you, and pull out your aged textbook. Just as you start to zone out, the bell rings and your teacher begins to speak. “Will everyone please take out their cellphones?” […]
Imposition | an audiovisual experience
Concerts are usually experienced in the masses but even in the largest of crowds, every audience member has a unique experience– the true beauty behind live music. In their second project together, musician Edisonnoside and visual artist Daniel Schwartz have clashed music and light projection together to recreate the concert experience in Imposition. What began as […]
SoundTracking your way through life
Early on in college, becoming a music journalist was my ultimate goal. So, finding new music wasn’t just a hobby, it was a way of deconstructing and analyzing the music industry. This may or may not have led me on a journey of attending 100 concerts in various countries in 2010. Fast forward to present […]
Water-generating billboard changing lives
Did the University of Engineering and Design (UTEC) in Lima, Peru just change humanitarian efforts and the marketing process forever? It’s surprising that a university dedicated to innovation would use a billboard to attract talented students when the possibilities of social marketing and interactive design would probably do it way more justice. UTEC sure doesn’t agree, and for this […]
Organically digital
Disusing the blurring line between organic and digital may be one of my favorite conversational topics (no, really.) See, in college I took a class titled Politics of the Future and in a nutshell, it ruined my life. In a good way. Five books and five papers later, I was left fascinated with the relationship […]
Looking through the [Google] Glass
I’ll admit it. I’ve never really been a big fan of the concept of Google Glass – the futuristic goggles that act as a smartphone for your face. The idea feels uncomfortably dystopian; something that belongs in a sci-fi movie. In fact, I’m still completely against the idea of eBooks. I want to feel the words and pages of […]
State of the [interactive] Union
I love politics almost as much as I love technology but I’d be naive if I said either were perfect. If you watched last year’s presidential debates, or have seen the disturbing amount of cat videos on YouTube, you know exactly what I’m talking about. However, both play a crucial role in our society and in the […]
A virtual view of a connected world
London’s Design Festival annually brings together innovative architects and designers to amplify the city’s imaginative borders and to recreate the city’s most notable places. In September, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) was invaded by a mysterious structure that lived off an invisible force. Prism, designed by London artist Keiichi Matsuda, was one of several large-scale interactive installations presented by […]
Passport to the future
When our phones or computers decide to bite the dust, we can all agree how much of a hassle it will be when our music, photos and documents suddenly disappear. But what if the problem of losing data/memories due to damaged or old tech gadgets was a thing of the past? Japan’s Hitachi recently introduced a […]