Router with Location (by ericssonmultimedia)
Router with Location (by ericssonmultimedia)
JP Rangaswami: Information is food
A conversation with Dale Dougherty and Alasdair Allan
“Alasdair Allan is the author of Learning iPhone Programming, Programming iPhone Sensors, Basic Sensors in iOS, Geolocation iOS, iOS Sensor Apps and Arduino and Augmented Reality in iOS, all published by O’Reilly Media.”
Really good perspectives on design beyond, way beyond the aesthetics part of it.
It’s interesting to see how much effort (and good luck) it would take for Nokia and Microsoft just to get the numbers right.
(via Forecasting Nokia’s Windows Phone sales and Microsoft’s mobile customer acquisition cost | asymco)
The handle, consisting of an integrated barcode scanner and a row of 16 multi-colour LEDs, clips onto any supermarket trolley to show relevant product information via changes in patterns and colors. These product characteristics can be nominal (e.g. organic versus containing nuts), ordinal (e.g. low, medium or high food miles), as well as a combination of the two at the same time.
(via Augmented Trolley Handle Conveys Food Miles Information while Shopping - information aesthetics)