Rahul Sen: Future-Sense » Future things http://www.future-sense.net Thoughts, ramblings and experiments in making sense of a complex Future Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:11:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 We’re (Cyborgs) disappearing into our Devices http://www.future-sense.net/2011/08/31/were-cyborgs-disappearing-into-our-devices/ http://www.future-sense.net/2011/08/31/were-cyborgs-disappearing-into-our-devices/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:26:05 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=748 Continue reading →]]> Watching Amber Case’s presentation (‘From Solid to Liquid to Air’) about us ‘cyborgs’ at Media Evolution 2011 in Malmö, I went back to look at a video-skit I’d done for a project 2.5 years ago while still at UID.

The video was hacked together very quickly in a few hours, with my friends as actors and scenographers (a big thank you to all, if you’re reading!) but what struck me about it now was how much closer to the dream/myth/promise of augmented reality we are today. And where we’ll be in a few years from now.

I was reading ‘Talk to Me’, the exhibition put together at the MoMA by Paola Antonelli (another amazing person I was honored to meet at the conference) and I was astonished by the writing and thought of Kevin Slavin about why we needed to keep our reality untouched and intact.

More on that later, but this video needed a bit of dusting, and now I’m smiling. :)

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I spoke at Microsoft Sweden, a couple of days after returning from IxD Bauhaus in Seattle. My talk was to an audience consisting primarily of developers within the Microsoft community. I tried to infuse a presentation we did about Windows phone at Ergonomidesign with my talk in Seattle. The result is here for you to see.

Direct link here.

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Media Evolution and Me

Just wanted to preserve for posterity, the fact that I’ll be speaking at Media Evolution on August 24-25th with an awesome lineup of speakers.

Almost surreal to think I’d be on the same panel but I’m thanking my lucky stars and the angels that guard me. :)

More on Media Evolution Conference here.

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2011/06/13/speaking-at-media-evolution-at-malmo-mediaev/feed/ 0 Making the intangible, tangible. http://www.future-sense.net/2011/02/15/making-the-intangible-tangible/ http://www.future-sense.net/2011/02/15/making-the-intangible-tangible/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:45:19 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=640 Continue reading →]]> “The Institute for Digital Biology researches next steps in the evolution of the internet, where websites and services develop into living creatures.”
This scenario lives in the mind of Walewijn den Boer, graduated from KABK in 2010.

During the exhibition, visitors were able to feed a colony of microscopical pop-up creatures, save Chinese websites from a pageview-shortage, preserve an Amazone tribe from extinction by subscribing to its homepage and view a short documentary on how the living internet established itself

via http://www.nextnature.net/2011/01/the-institute-for-digital-biology/

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Got this as an amazing Christmas gift from Dennis and Chrystyna!

I have a refrigerator. It’s not ordinary one. It has my app-board attached to it. I move them around to the different places where I need them and use them. I can dispose of them, synch them together (by touching), and a lot of other cool things. Someday in the near future…

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Anything Hollywood does, Bollywood ‘adapts’ and does even better!

We still don’t know much about the film, except that SRK’s character is called G.One, and he’s some sort of superhero — and above is our first look at him.

A bit of backstory: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) was set to star inEnthiran, the killer-robot movie from director S. Shankar, but left that project over creative differences. But then Enthiran turned out to be a megahit — and there was a lot of talk that the story and action set-pieces in Ra.One were way too similar toEnthiran. So Ra.One has had to be retooled to make it different, and more time is being spent in post-production beefing up the effects, delaying the release from the first half of 2011 to around October.

Link here.

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2011/01/03/612/feed/ 0 SCA Multitouch Prototype by Interactive Institute http://www.future-sense.net/2010/12/15/sca-multitouch-prototype-by-interactive-institute/ http://www.future-sense.net/2010/12/15/sca-multitouch-prototype-by-interactive-institute/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:14:38 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=610

An awesome prototype done by my friend Ru Zarin at the Interactive Institute and other colleagues and partners. Awesome stuff!

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2010/12/15/sca-multitouch-prototype-by-interactive-institute/feed/ 0 MultiTouch in cinema http://www.future-sense.net/2010/12/06/multitouch-in-cinema/ http://www.future-sense.net/2010/12/06/multitouch-in-cinema/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:00:09 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=594 Continue reading →]]> Been working lots lately on multi-touch technology (both on MS Surface, iPhones and other projects).

Just thought it would be interesting to jot down my list of favorite multi-touch technology visions as seen on film.

Minority Report (duh!)

James Bond Quantum of Solace –

District 9

Iron Man 2

Avatar

The Island (thx Mattias!)

More?


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Spotted by BruceS on his blog.

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More here on my Flickr set.

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