{"id":8037,"date":"2012-05-22T10:47:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=8037"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:58:19","slug":"weekending-19062012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2012\/05\/22\/weekending-19062012\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekending 19062012"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nicolas: A quite academic week with two days as an expert in a design school in Switzerland (Neuchatel) and polishing a research project submitted to a funding body. Being external jury judging student’s work is always intriguing, especially when projects are very diverse. In this case, it ranged from a new generation of mouses to kite-surf devices and mountain bikes parts. Industrial design is fascinating because of the whole range of constraints that have to be taken into consideration: physical, cognitive, social, political, etc. Commenting on the projects, I realize how hard it was to play with all these parameters and , at the same time, create something new and meaningful.<\/p>\n
Julian: Quite a busy programming-the-computer-at-night week. Yes. Programming it to make it do things. I have a hunch of an idea for a thing that wouldn’t make my life easier? But would make it more fiddily. Based on an observation: most social network services require that you go to the service to find out what your peoples are up to \/\/ have shared \/\/ took a photo of \/\/ checked-into \/\/ &c ad infinitum. What about going to the people first? An Internet of Me & Mine rather than an Internet of Things or an Internet of Services. You know? As if all my friends had a stats card like a 1970s era baseball player. Or something. Like \u2014\u00a0shouldn’t your people be the point of entry for these things in a very bold, upfront fashion? And you get to pick who you browse rather than seeing *everyone\/thing as if you could sift through it all? Maybe you have to pick some small number of true-blue friends \u2014\u00a0or the algorithm enforces true-blueness by making sure the relationship is two-way. You know? So \u2014 ObjectiveC land for me last week\/weekend\/nights-til-late.<\/p>\n Oh \u2014\u00a0also? The Marshall Stack speaker project came to a happy point of a milestone with a very good share and a lovely looking thing. Thanks to Simon and Vids for their hard-making-things work. That’s Simon up there. He’s not a grumpy fella, but sometimes I ask him to do a lot. He also had a new little one the other day! Congratulations Simon! Take the rest of the week off. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nicolas: A quite academic week with two days as an expert in a design school in Switzerland (Neuchatel) and polishing a research project submitted to a funding body. Being external jury judging student’s work is always intriguing, especially when projects are very diverse. In this case, it ranged from a new generation of mouses to … Continue reading Weekending 19062012<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[197],"tags":[1181,878,948,984],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a><\/p>\n