Paper Bits

Nov 16

…from the outside, to professionals, it all looks like rubbish. It all looks silly, trivial, why would you make that, I don’t understand it. But the people who made it, it’s absolutely brilliant, it’s the most fun they’ve ever had and it’s particularly useful to them.

—Buttons, Behaviour, Robots and Toys. What Happens When We Put Data in Things - Russell Davies

Aug 30

Via everyone in the world on twitter today:

Wacom introduces Inkling, a new digital sketch pen that captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper.

This is exciting. Unlike the LiveScribe, which only works with its own (cheap, shitty) paper, this product is supposed to work with any paper.

I wonder how the pen will feel on the paper? Will I want to write with it? The feel of the pen in my hand, and how the nib scratches across the surface of the paper will make or break this product. I can’t wait to try one.

Aug 10

Kickstarter - Pulse Sensor: an Open Source Heart-rate Sensor that Rocks

This is an optical pulse-rate sensor for Arduino or your computer:

After a few months of testing a gaggle of techniques, we developed what we think is an innovative pulse sensor. Our prototype (and accompanying code) plugs right into Arduino and easily clips onto a fingertip or earlobe. It’s super small too, button-sized with holes, so it can be sewn into a garment as well. We’d like to manufacturer the actual pulse sensor, making it low-cost, open source, and accessible for students, artists, and developers.

I have a project in mind that might just benefit from this…

Jun 30

Semiotics of Color

Via fyeahsynesthesia, a proposal to map colors to the alphabet in a meaningful way.

This website is divided into several sections that represent the process used in developing this system of writing with color as well as links to online resources such as color converting algorithms, a set of fonts for displaying color text, and several downloadable examples of how the color font was used in my newer works.

Nov 13

UXPin | Paper prototyping redesigned

Sticky notes and grid templates for paper prototyping