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Touchable Holography

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I’m Here – The Movie

Some golden nuggets from ‘I’m Here’, a short story about love in an Absolut World by Spike Jonze.

Man: “What do you mean? We (robots) cant dream!”

Woman: “Of course you can, you just make it up!”

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Man: “…This dream was easily the best dream in the history of all dreams”.

A library assistant plods through an ordinary life in LA until a chance meeting opens his eyes to a the power of creativity and ultimately, love. When this new life and love begin to fall apart, he discovers he has a lot to give. This short film proves that ordinary is no place to be. (via IMDB)

View the trailer here…

I was reading some essays on Design Fiction by Julian Bleecker recently and was especially struck by this film after reading it. ‘I’m Here’ is such a perfectly imagined and made work of design-fiction in the sense that it makes you completely believe in the World which is created here. Not only are the ‘props’ and costumes entirely authentic, the fact that its set in the Almost Present makes the impact breathtakingly moving and simple. It focuses on human/robotic emotion while keeping the work of design very secondary.

This scene in the movie was such a brilliant piece of architectural fiction. It almost made me believe that such hospitals exist.

My moral from this story – A truly moving piece of design fiction is infinitesimally more valuable than a billion half-resolved design truths.

More Inception infographic awesomeness

Credit: http://www.ibraheemyoussef.com/ibraheemshop/

From Buzzfeed via Dehah’s Deviant Art page. Click to see larger version.

Via Cinemablend.

Inception – The Infographic

This prize-winning entry explains an otherwise complex movie pretty eloquently. :)

via FastCoDesign

Arduino: The Documentary

In the footsteps of Gary Hustwitt… this one should be interesting.

The Interactive Holographics in Iron Man 2

Credit: Prologue VFX

via Infothestics

The Future of the Social Web, and how to Stop it (@chrismessina)

Future of the Social Web and How to Stop It

View more documents from Chris Messina.
Just stumbled upon this great presentation. Especially love the slides 103-111.

The Web is Dead, Long live the Internet (via @wired)

Sources: Cisco estimates based on CAIDA publications, Andrew Odlyzko.

Read the full article here.

Gems on Futurecasting by Nicholas Nova and Julian Bleecker

inflated deflated futures
View more presentations from nicolas nova.
Props to Prototypes: Design Fiction Part 2 Design Connexity 2009

View more presentations from bleeckerj.

Gallery of Helmet Reflections (via BERG)

This is just WOW!

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I am an Interaction Designer based in Stockholm, Sweden. I'm working at Er-gono-mi-design these days, usual doing some awesome stuff. This blog is about exciting things, thoughts and events I happen to stumble upon. Sometimes, its a canvas for random experiments. More often, it'll be a museum of things, links, and nuggets of gold done by other people that I choose to preserve.