Smart goggles easy on the eyes

Brunel grad Katie Williams’ developed a system which projects the number of laps swum, speed, and the elapsed time right in the goggle lens while maintaining the feel of ordinary goggles. This allows swimmers to maintain their form instead of straining to glance at pace clocks or watches which warp their hydrodynamics. A small button on the side of the goggle turns the display on and off and signals to the “compass” the direction of travel - when the swimmer turns, the time is registered and lap-count increments.

One2One

"Here's something that makes Home automation a little more personal and. This little flower could site on you desk or kitchen. When it blooms it is notifing you that friends or family are on-line. When there not the flower disapears into the pot."

A wonderful application at Media Lab Europe. If there was only a simple way for them to get this market ready.

The Pulse of the House

To increase consciousness of energy consumption in private homes, the designer put an intangible product, energy, into a very human language. A pulsing glow gives the consumer an ongoing report on the amount of energy being used in the house, which will ultimately lead to more awareness of domestic energy consumption and an increase in conservation of that resource.

"The design features an ingenious, intuitive and very human interface. The system's potential environmental impact is huge. A beautiful, poetic solution." -Imre Molnar, IDSA, Dean of Academic Affairs, College for Creative Studies

Nominated for an IDSA award last year.

::set bang::: ambient dashboard widgets?

there has been a bunch of talk on the interweb about designing ambient display widgets for the mac os x dashboard. the locket displays the online status of a single buddy on iChat...flores is a vase with up to four flowers, each one indicating a new message in the inbox of your gmail or apple mail...

great. just a few things...

first, aren't we trying to get computation off the desktop? there is the argument that the dashboard and cocoa provide a quick way to get your ambient display up and running and then you can throw it on that spare powerbook you have. okay fine, that is useful for prototyping, but does not an ambient display make... although these widgets are kinda cool, and there's some benefits to be had, i think people are missing the mark on what an ambient display really is. bummer."