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Glenn Zucman
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Glenn Zucman
Samsung Simband Open Reference Sensor Module
Simband Open Reference Sensor Module from Samsung on Vimeo.
• MDDIonline.com / Samsung Simband
Glenn Zucman
Emotional Compass
Art is Open Source.net / an Emotional Compass: new ideas for wayfinding in cities
An Emotional Compass from salvatore iaconesi on Vimeo.
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Expressive Wearables
expressive WEARABLES from Sangli on Vimeo.
I was poking around Sangli Li’s website, the photographer & MDP student who shot our XWD pix. While we’ve been so serious with Extreme Wearables, he’s been having whimsical fun working on Expressive Wearables. And you definitely can’t do that with a phone!
Glenn Zucman
Make it Wearable
Intel / Make it Wearable
Glenn Zucman
MC10 Skin Sensor / Intel Quark Processor
Here’s a Sept 2013 video Joseph found where Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announces the Quark processor. At 2:30 he talks about wearables. At 4:30 another speaker, a not identified woman, (anybody know who she is?) talks about a wrist-worn sensor, and at 5:00 she talks about the MC10 “Band-Aid” Skin Sensor we looked at during our research at MDP on Saturday, June 28. We had a hard time telling if the MC10 was available or not, but in the video she states that it’s still in development.
Sharon Gong
Indicate hydration level in another way
“Vessyl can even tell you whether you need to drink more water by displaying a vivid blue line that rises and falls dependent upon your hydration level. Vessyl calls this part of the technology “Pryme,” and it can be displayed independently on the cup itself, or within the app to show you not only how hydrated you are, but for how long you remained at optimal hydration levels. All of which coincides with the Vessyl mantra of empowering people to make better choices.”
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Glenn Zucman
Wow Sharon, what an interesting find!
It’s a very sexy and very interesting product. I do wonder though, how many people will be willing to pay US$200 for a mug… and then put everything they drink all day in it? Take it to Starbucks in the morning? To Jamba Juice for lunch? To the pub after work? And will they rinse it in between? And if you do rinse it, will that be logged as drinking 13oz of water?
It’s easy to be negative about Vessyl or Compass H2O or anything else, but it just seems like a very expensive mug that I have to drag around all day. When I go to the roof of MDP for a party, instead of a red wine glass I’m going to ask the server to put my wine in this white plastic thing?
I’m also unclear, since it’s not actually sensing your body hydration, but instead your intake, how does it know if you’ve been lying in an air-conditioned bedroom all day, or out running 4-minute miles in blazing heat?
Sharon Gong
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Glenn Zucman
Awesome job on the video Vivia! Rock on!
Oh BTW, the audio track is a Creative Commons track from CCMixter: Arms of Light by WaxMaps:
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Sharon Gong
The water drop video comes from Youtube “Water drop slow motion highspeed 4300 fps PCO.dimax” by Daniel Nimmervoll
Sharon Gong
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Glenn Zucman
Great find Sharon! The Glass Social Compass is an interesting app! It has some of the ideas we were thinking about. Of course Compass H2.O is available at a much more affordable price and doesn’t have the bad PR of all the Glassholes!
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Glenn Zucman
Watching this video again a week later… now that we’ve moving off “Find Water” and toward Wayfinding / Social Compass. You know, this is a “cute” Google-like video but really, we are not the only ones stretching our use case! Those 4 friends are wearing US$6,000 in tech to find out where in the zoo the gorillas are?? This video to me is more of a “gaming” or “play” scenario than a serious “need”…
meditating on this…
Glenn Zucman
Hydration Sensor
Hydration Sensor
http://www.mc10inc.com/consumer-products/sports/hydration-sensor/
MC10 Hydration Video from MC10 on Vimeo.
This is a really interesting idea. Some years back I worked with art students at a high school in Irvine, CA. I had them draw cognitive maps of their campus and other projective drawings. Each was so compelling and so very different.
One student drew, in excruciating detail, every sink and table in the art building, the other nearby arts buildings in lesser detail, and the entire rest of the campus was simply a circle labeled all the rest.
Maps like these will never be as useful as a Google Map for getting from Point A to Point B. But Google Maps are heartless. They might take you to someone or something you love, but the route itself is banal.
Emotional Compass, Social Wayfinding, Cognitive Maps, and my new term for today, Ephemeral Wayfinding are all about making not better, but more meaningful and more deeply immersive journeys. Journeys that are, perhaps, more about the road than the destination.