February 2006

Here are my notes and a Flickr category of pictures from a Super Bowl party Kitchen Analysis project. There was one major story from this Super Bowl party-making observation session. The kitchen lacked temporary storage space. While cabinets were plentiful (for New York) a combination of limited counter space and zero non-cabinet shelf space created […]

We created the SuperSucker for a Toy Design exercise that demanded an “amplification toy.” Sucking on the little clear tube triggers the much more powerful vacuum motor, creating amplified suction on the end of the big black tube as shown here. The functioning prototype was a lot of fun to play with since it allowed

Calm technologies attempt to deliver information in a contextually-appropriate manner. But more attention (if you will) needs to be paid to how exactly that context is to be sensed and manipulated. Should technology simply wait until the room is quiet before announcing something? Can the importance of information be planned in advance, so that signal