Design Thinking & Innovation - Tim Brown

Talk by Tim Brown of IDEO given at MIT.

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“With PicoCricket you can create musical sculptures, interactive jewelry, dancing creatures and other playful inventions”

MIT Media Lab creation presented by Mitch Resnick at last night’s talk. Created specifically to appeal to more kids (esp girls) than the Lego Mindstorms set which has been marketed as a robotics toolkit.

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musicBottles - Exploring the component parts of a musical performance

Each part becomes audible when that instrument’s bottle is uncorked. Interesting problems shown in video - ie representing real time interaction of jazz parts. Also “affordances” of glass bottles good for listening, not for music making (mixing.)

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Dialtones (A Telesymphony)

A concert performed entirely through the ringing of the audience’s mobile phones. (2001 - Austria, Switzerland)

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One2One - a toolkit for creating personalized ambient media links for conveying togetherness over a distance

From the (defunct?) Media Lab Europe Human Connectedness research group

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Mobile Landscape - Graz in real time

MIT Media Lab project creating a city wide map in real time by visualizing anonymous mobile phone data.

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Blendie

Voice controlled blender that responds when the person using blendie “speaks the language of the machine.” Performative user interface!

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Eigen Radio

Many radio stations statistically analyzed for greatest entropy, and then distilled into one

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Jim Campbell - artist and MIT engineer

Interesting work involving representations of memory using personal artifacts and physiological data (heart beat, breath rate etc). Cool large-scale low-resolution motion light/LED works. Lives in SF - data for one of his works recorded at Montara beach

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Set of interactive dominoes

Another MIT media lab hero.

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Online studio of digital artist and MIT professor John Maeda.

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Semantic Piggy Bank

Still not sure what this is exactly. Scraping and saving and recombining web data.

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