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The informal messaging system mockup was created by the Interaction Design Programme, a collaborative initiative between the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) and The Danish Design School (DKDS). It features a touchpad to allow people to type directly on a tech-enabled dog coat. Continue reading >

Flowers die, but the Dandelion portable windmill will keep on brightening your day without the wilting. A new wearable tech accessory from designers Mary Huang and Jennifer Kay, this beauty uses tiny windmills and turns the energy generated from the moving blades into LED light or plugable power for a small electronic device. The quirky design is also made from 99 percent reclaimed materials! Continue reading >

Very recently, Google launched a new service in the form of Buzz, which made the location-aware-browsing, quite a phenomena on smart phones. But what about location-aware-music systems at home or work place that would tune to need of the user by identifying the place of the user in the given area of operation (maybe a room)? Sounds good. Let’s discuss the “Journey into Sound” project carried on at the interaction Design Programme. Continue reading >

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 Cannon and Tobias Toft for the occasion of a Nokia industry course at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID). Little World aims to turn digital interaction with people feel more like real-life interaction.

It seems that the entire world is speculating on the future these days. (For a critical reflection on this phenomenon, the Dutchies among us should read this.) From this perspective, Nokia organized a design course around the question ‘What might the future of phones look like?’. This question is relevant, as every mobile phone manufacturer currently seems to be rashly copying Apple’s shiny iPhone OS interface and information organization, while real innovations still derive from thinking differently, ‘out of the box’. Continue reading >

There are many projects going on in this world and some of them are very intriguing, and one of such projects is Comet Phone Booth, worked out at the Interaction Design Programme, which is movable and not static like the traditional telephone booths found all over the world.

The booth actually uses a hair dryer helmet to do the function. Quite an innovation that left me speechless! How could one use a hair dryer to make a phone call? Continue reading >

Ironic Radio, şekil ve işlevin bağlarını koparmak için tasarlanmış. Kophenag Etkileşimli Tasarım Enstitüsü öğrencileri Gizem Boyacıoğlu, Mao Nissen, Dean McNamee ve Elena Gianni, istendiği takdirde kafa ütüleme özelliği de olan bir radyo tasarımıyla sınıfa gelmişler. Continue reading >

Linyl Records capture audio and light information together on a single disk. It uses an Arduino to read the RGB values on the disk, which it then reproduces in ambient lighting. Continue reading >

Light is a wave form, it is a universal fact, but can we play light as we play music…that is what this project below is all about?

Way before the world got dominated by the highly portable Walkman and CD players, music (which was classical most of the time) was enjoyed on a Gramophone in a quite place with minimal lights, offering a relaxing feeling. Now some students from Interaction Design Programme have pushed their brains to the limit to come up with a mechanism to play light the way music does, behold Linyl- the light playing Vinyl disc. Continue reading >

Não é um ferro de passar a roupa comum. É um projeto brilhante que, ao desassociar a função da forma, subverte as expectativas comuns de interação com um objeto e consegue desafiar comportamentos instintivos. O nome do projeto: “Ironic Radio”. Assim, é um rádio que desafia o instinto desenvolvido (e estimulado) desde cedo nas crianças de não tocar a parte metálica do ferro, onde neste caso se podem selecionar as estações. Continue reading >

If you want to listen to CBC radio then reach for this ironic radio, but if you want to remove wrinkles from a dress shirt, this is not the gadget to plug in. Touch the normally steaming hot metal plate of this ironic radio to change the station. The knobs and buttons on and between the handle are the volume, power and AM/FM controls. Continue reading >