Andy Polaine
70max - cheaper, safer, greener
Live|Work have just put together a new collective action website called 70max aimed at encouraging people to slow down and reduce accidents and carbon …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Macbook or Macbook Pro?
or I’m about to upgrade machines and it’s time to go Macbook or Macbook Pro (the 15"). It wouldn’t be a primary design machine, so the …
Têtes à Claques
One of my more brilliant ex-students, Gabi, just sent me this link to the very disturbing Têtes à Claques. It’s all in French and my schoolboy French …
Muscle Memory and the Wii
What with all the cool things people are doing with Wiimotes I nearly bought a Wii yesterday, but wasn’t terribly convinced by the games. This post from …
Djing with the Wii
There’s been a whole lot going on about the Wiimote as an interface to pretty much everything. It’s very flexible, relatively cheap and easy to use …
New Arduino Goodies
Following on from my previous post about the new Bluetooth Arduino boards. Chris O’Shea has already got his and has posted some first impressions. Picture …
Desire of Codes
Apart from David Rokeby’s talk and Stelarc and a couple of other things at Transmediale 07, I spent an entertaining afternoon checking out the open …
YouTube meets Azureus, Zudeo is born
So the folks behind the popular BitTorrent client, Azureus have launched a service which Wired has described as a YouTube for HD video. It’s called Zudeo …
Notes from Transmediale 07
In general the main exhibition of Transmediale 07 left me pretty unimpressed. But that may be due to my general cynicism (or arrogance - I prefer cynicism) - …
Creative Waves 2
Omnium, the research group that I am part of (now online) in Australia, has just launched its next ‘Creative Waves’ global e-learning project …
Drunk Deutsche Bahn Icons
](/images/2007/01/normal_dbsigns.jpg) [ Click to enlarge the images For a while I’ve been meaning to photograph this - unfortunately I only got them with …
The Computer Behind Playpen
Okay, it’s not really the server behind Playpen, but it is the machine on which I write most of it. Iain had the nice (and as it turned out simultaneous …
Bluetooth Arduino Boards
Chris O’Shea from Pixelsumo just mailed to remind me that the Bluetooth version of the Arduino boards comes out on Monday and are available here. The …
US Airforce or Videogame?
Not really the usual fare of Playpen, but through a strange Google Ad placement that I clicked on I ended up at the U.S. Airforce’s propaganda …
Bubble Sequencer
Adding to the ever-growing list of things that my ex-students now do much better than I, Karl D. D. Willis is working on a playful new project called Bubble …