Tag Archives: products

Hybrids: The social web in the physical world

By Timo | Published: 14 September 2010

The Touch project has a new exhibition in collaboration with the Record project at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design. In recent years we have witnessed the growth of a new breed of consumer products and services that are a hybrid of tangible atoms and online bits. This exhibition offers a selection of products, [...]

Posted in Events | Also tagged aho, digital/physical, exhibition, hybrid, post-digital, services | 1 Comment

Skål: playing with media

By Timo | Published: 22 September 2009

Skål (Norwegian for bowl) is a product that has emerged from the Bowl project. It is a media player designed for the home that acts as the interface between physical objects and related digital media on a television. This video shows Skål in action. A bowl sits on the living room table and a range [...]

Posted in Interaction design, Product design, Projects, Research | Also tagged bowl, objects, Product design, rfid, tangible interaction | 4 Comments

iPhone RFID: object-based media

By Timo | Published: 14 April 2009

This is a video prototype of an iPhone media player that uses physical objects to control media playback. It is based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) that triggers various iPhone interactions when in the range of a wireless tag embedded inside a physical object. RFID is becoming more common in mobile phones (under the term [...]

Posted in Interaction design, Product design, Projects, Research | Also tagged apple, arphid, cellphone, contactless, interaction, interface, iphone, lens interface, media, Mobile, nfc, objects, phone, rfid, sensor, sensors, spime, tangible, tangible interaction, video | 104 Comments

Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2009

By Einar | Published: 23 February 2009

We recently presented our paper Designing with RFID at the Tangible and Embedded Interaction conference in Cambridge UK. This presentation was part of a session on ‘enabling technologies and design techniques’. The presentation focused on how we look at the physical aspects of RFID form through design. The full presentation is available on Slideshare and [...]

Posted in Product design, Research | Also tagged design, industrial design, Interaction design, Product design, rfid, tangible interaction, tei09 | Leave a comment

Playful augmented products

By Timo | Published: 13 February 2009

This is a design brief, one of many themes that the Touch project is investigating. It extends an older brief Playful RFID with an emphasis on exploring material and experience prototyping. Last week Interaction Design students at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design participated in a Touch workshop where the brief was to design [...]

Posted in Interaction design, Product design, Student projects, Workshops | Also tagged aho, design, industrial design, nfc, oslo, rfid, tikitag | 2 Comments

RFID and physical social networks

By Timo | Published: 30 September 2008

Poken is offering a physical networking platform, with physical, RFID-based objects that plug into a PC via USB (where have we heard that before?) A Poken is a connected business card, when you meet people you want to connect to, you touch their ‘poken’ and get added to their Open Social network. Just tap your [...]

Posted in Interaction design, News, Product design | Also tagged industrial design, nfc, physical computing, Product design, rfid, situated software, social media, social networking, social networks, social software, tangible interactions | 4 Comments

RFID peripherals

By Timo | Published: 29 September 2008

Plug and play RFID-reading USB peripherals are all the rage, as indicated by a stream of recent product announcements. These readers plug into a PC and make various things happen when they are touched with an RFID tag. RFID readers are small and cheap, encapsulating them in packaging and offering a standard USB interface makes [...]

Posted in Interaction design, Product design, Research | Also tagged electronics, hardware, industrial design, nfc, personal informatics, physical computing, Product design, rfid, ubicomp, Ubiquitous computing | 13 Comments

Contact-less

By Timo | Published: 28 August 2008

From the Picnic conference last year, Mediamatic’s ‘RFID safe’ which protects your wireless RFID cards from being read or ‘skimmed’. With Mifare security problems a reality, and the ability to skim cards such as the Oyster fairly easily, I wonder how common these things will become? Related Anti Skimming Devices Highly Recommended for This Year’s [...]

Posted in Product design | Also tagged design, EMF, oyster, oyster card, Radio, rfid | 1 Comment