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Hi, Matthias Brendler here, transdisciplinary designer blogging what's interesting or significant relating to: Design, Education, Culture, Technology and Business (as well as anything that's really cool).
Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four (by BBC)
LUST | Graphic and Interactive Design | Grafisch en Interactief Ontwerp
Say hello to the next home automation standard: Wi-Fi — Mobile Technology News
HOME AUTOMATION
Using a ubiquitous wireless standard is huge, assuming it works; the first products don’t arrive until March, so I haven’t tested them. A $49 outlet and $99 motion detector with outlet will be the first WeMo offerings, and you just plug in any electrical device you want to control to the WeMo product. The devices can then be controlled with a free smartphone app.
Beyond Behavior Change | Sustainable Brands
“ When we overlook the verb in behavior change, we run the risk of turning behavior change into a ‘thing,’ as if a concrete object. We also are unwittingly acting like engineers when we need to be thinking more like psychologists. Behavior change is dynamic. It is also nonlinear, driven by cognitive, affective and social levers. When we rush into solutions and applications too quickly, we short-circuit the potential to go deeper, and get the results and traction we need.”
Can Twitter Help Us Create Smarter Transit Routes?
Reminds me of a similar experiment using fungus.
Sound, the Way the Brain and the Ear Prefer to Hear It - NYTimes.com
zanyparade - hit list
(via Well-formed data)
Source: http://well-formed-data.net/
Traffic (by onformative)
Source: http://vimeo.com/26377111
Study links skyscrapers to financial crashes
An “unhealthy correlation” exists between the construction of skyscrapers and financial crashes, according to a new report from investment bank Barclays Capital.
Full Story: ABC
See #Brian McGrath’s, “Timeformations"
Words?
"Pina" by Wim Wenders
On Experience Design
" on an experience requires the coordinated effort of many parts of an organization. Whilst the experience vision or theme provides the guiding light for those efforts, the experience strategy takes that vision and articulates the specific areas of focus around which the organization will strive to differentiate itself in the market by crafting that experience in a particular way.
The strategy holds and speaks to both the destination and the journey and in so doing bridges the gap between concept and action."
Pina, a documentary film by Wim Wenders
My favorite choreographer through the eye of one of my favorite directors.
Connected Cars at CES
As each year passes, the connected car makes more of a noise at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. This year several car manufacturers were touting new features, including Mercedes-Benz, Ford and Audi. The term “connected car" refers to the integration of smartphone apps and content into the car. Typically this is done via the car’s dashboard, enabling you to listen to online music, access Web data, stream video to the car’s passengers and more. In this post we’ll look at three such systems: Ford Sync, Mercedes-Benz mbrace2 and Audi Connect.
What all three of the above car manufacturers, and others like General Motors and Toyota, have in common is that they are leveraging the rapid evolution of smartphone technology - rather than trying to build new Internet devices into their cars.