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Unbuilt infrastructures 28 Feb 2013 | 12:05 am
Samsung, one of the largest vendors of NFC-enabled mobile phones, unveils their new ‘Wallet’ app: When we asked why Samsung did not include NFC tap-to-pay features in Wallet, the company said that ret...
Between the Tag and the Screen: Kjetil Nordby’s PhD 18 Oct 2011 | 09:02 pm
On Thursday 20th October Kjetil Nordby will defend his thesis ‘Between the Tag and the Screen: Redesigning Short-Range RFID as Design Material’ for the PhD degree at AHO. The title of the trial lectur...
Touch at MoMA, NYC 2 Sep 2011 | 07:00 pm
We’re very happy that two works from the Touch project are featured in the latest exhibition ‘Talk to Me’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. We’re proud to be exhibited alongside so much outstan...
Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen & Einar Sneve Martinussen nominated for the young designer award 2 Sep 2011 | 12:29 am
The Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway ‘Norsk Form’ has nominated Einar Sneve Martinussen, Jørn Knutsen & Timo Arnall for the ‘Young Designer’ of the year award. The nomination follows t...
The first NFC appliance 28 Jun 2011 | 10:52 am
Nokia has announced the Play 360°, a portable speaker that on the surface looks like a fairly ordinary bluetooth-enabled, battery powered speaker system. The interesting bit is that this is the first...
Immaterials: light painting WiFi 27 Feb 2011 | 11:38 pm
“The complex technologies the networked city relies upon to produce its effects remain distressingly opaque, even to those exposed to them on a daily basis.” – Adam Greenfield (2009) Immaterials: lig...
Google, Android and NFC 24 Nov 2010 | 03:05 am
Alongside the persistent rumours of an Apple iPhone with an RFID/NFC reader (and our own experiments with iPhone NFC interactions) it seems that Google is really beginning to push for NFC as part of i...
Depth of field: Film in design research 29 Sep 2010 | 11:19 pm
We’ve just had a new article (pdf) published as part of a Research by design issue at Form Akademisk. What follows is a summary of some of the key points, alongside the embedded videos that form the c...
Hybrids: The social web in the physical world 14 Sep 2010 | 11:12 pm
The Touch project has a new exhibition in collaboration with the Record project at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design. In recent years we have witnessed the growth of a new breed of consumer pr...
New film: Wireless in the World 2 4 Jun 2010 | 01:43 am
In this film, Wireless in the world 2, simple visualisations of radio ‘spaces’ are overlaid into urban spaces. The film has been made as a follow up to this video experiment and has been specifically ...
