The Morpholio Project creates an app that embraces the connection between human and network, specifically the responses our bodies make when engaging with the world and how they reflect our inner states and assessments. Continue reading Morpholio Looks To Medicine To Affect Design
Utilizing an amazing installation of augmented reality technology in a bus stop in London, Pepsi Max has embraced the medium as a potentially game-changing advertising tool. The normally complacent commuters who wait patiently for their bus are confronted with meteors, tigers and robot invasions. Continue reading Augmented Reality to the Max
The woes of the mobile device power user are most often directly related to the two great hurdles to consumer technology: “battery and bandwidth”. We have always assumed that the improvement would come through technological enhancement to battery capabilities and network speed — but innovation always finds its own way. The new Yubi Kickstarter project (just launched today) changes the rules on recharging our mobile devices: rather than expanding the battery (either through a larger battery or an external one) the Yubi project brings the charger to everywhere we are. Called the “everywhere-you-spend-time solution”, the Yubi smart-docks are designed for bars, restaurants, cabs, … Continue reading Yubi Happy You Heard About This
Facebook announced that they will be acquiring hyper-innovative Oculus VR company for $2 billion. Continue reading Oculus VR Acquired By Facebook
The Blippar image recognition app made an innovative leap at the Mobile World Congress, releasing the first designed specifically for Google Glass. Continue reading Blippar’s Glass is Half Full
Augmented reality is far more banal than what it appears to be — we propose that AR has been with us since the first written words. Continue reading Augmented Reality is History
Leav is a mobile platform for placing, viewing, and sharing digital art that is both shaped by, and linked to, the world around it. Continue reading Leav It To Me
Part One of a Series True and pure virtual reality would, by necessity, be completely artificial and have only our mind to give it direction. An artificial environment which is experienced through sensory stimuli (as sights and sounds) provided by a computer and in which one’s actions partially determine what happens in the environment. Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2014. Today, we are far away from anything even close to that idea. The closest we can come now is an immersive artificial environment using head-mounted visors like the Oculus Rift (direct link) and a movement controlling platform, like the … Continue reading Virtual Reality is a Myth (for now)
Weathering the Battle for Eyeballs, Mindshare, Hearts and Souls: Despite an arctic freeze, consumer electronics brought more than 150,000 people to Las Vegas for the annual International CES. Continue reading The CES of Everything
THE ARCHITECHNOLOGIST will be in Maintenance Mode for a brief period on Saturday night for an update to a responsive design that will allow the site to be seen on full-size screens as well as phone and tablet mobile devices. Continue reading Website Downtime This Weekend