Rahul Sen: Future-Sense » Information visualization 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 Modernist Cuisine (I want!) http://www.future-sense.net/2011/09/20/modernist-cuisine-i-want/ http://www.future-sense.net/2011/09/20/modernist-cuisine-i-want/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:11:04 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=768 Get Microsoft Silverlight

Link for a future purchase someday when I can afford it. 

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2011/09/20/modernist-cuisine-i-want/feed/ 0 Family Tree of Video Game Controllers http://www.future-sense.net/2011/09/15/family-tree-of-video-game-controllers/ http://www.future-sense.net/2011/09/15/family-tree-of-video-game-controllers/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:49:33 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=759

This is so beautiful and makes me nostalgic!

via Fast Company

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2011/09/15/family-tree-of-video-game-controllers/feed/ 0 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. :)

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2011/08/31/were-cyborgs-disappearing-into-our-devices/feed/ 0 IxD Bauhaus at Microsoft Sweden http://www.future-sense.net/2011/06/13/ixd-bauhaus-at-microsoft-sweden/ http://www.future-sense.net/2011/06/13/ixd-bauhaus-at-microsoft-sweden/#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:27:12 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=709 Continue reading →]]>

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 My slides from the IxD Bauhaus in Seattle http://www.future-sense.net/2011/06/03/my-slides-from-the-ixd-bauhaus-in-seattle/ http://www.future-sense.net/2011/06/03/my-slides-from-the-ixd-bauhaus-in-seattle/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:25:59 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=699 Continue reading →]]> I just returned from the IxD Bauhaus event for which I was invited as a speaker.

The event was an amazing experience with a crowd of about 200+ designers, developers, students and other creative minds from the Pacific Northwest all gathered together to discuss an important revolution. I was humbled that the seed for thought was planted by the article I wrote on Johnny Holland called ‘The IxD Bauhaus – What Happens Next?’.  For this massive honor, I have Mike Kruzeniski (Windows Phone), Vicky Teinaki (Johnny Holland) and my colleagues at Ergonomidesign to thank.

The poster from the IxD Bauhaus event -

My slides from the IxD Bauhaus Event are embedded below -

IxD Bauhaus

View more presentations from Rahul Sen.


]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2011/06/03/my-slides-from-the-ixd-bauhaus-in-seattle/feed/ 1 A first peek at Windows 8 http://www.future-sense.net/2011/06/03/a-first-peek-at-windows-8/ http://www.future-sense.net/2011/06/03/a-first-peek-at-windows-8/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:57:29 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=691 Continue reading →]]>

Very excited to see the Windows 8 UI. It’s using a Metro-inspired look and feel which is long overdue and will definitely change how we use PC’s.

More from All Things Digital 9.

A very thorough dissection of the Windows 8 UI exists here.

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2011/06/03/a-first-peek-at-windows-8/feed/ 0 The Ableton UI – early example of reductionist UI http://www.future-sense.net/2011/04/21/the-ableton-ui-early-example-of-reductionist-ui/ http://www.future-sense.net/2011/04/21/the-ableton-ui-early-example-of-reductionist-ui/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:53:35 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=678

http://www.ableton.com/

Thanks Olof Bendt for showing me! :)

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2011/04/21/the-ableton-ui-early-example-of-reductionist-ui/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/

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2011/02/15/making-the-intangible-tangible/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!

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