Pathway #8: Enabling new forms of creativity
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Digging digitally at the intersection of consumption and creativity
It was a Sunday in May and, if we wanted the beans to the grow, it was time they were in the ground. So I found myself on the windswept allotment, under the big white clouds and blue of a Norfolk sky, digging over that patch of ground which had be…
User story: typing tablets & coffee house friends
Her computer, a Microsoft Surface, was the least colourful thing about her. She wore blue jeans, a bright turquoise sweater, luminous pink plastic wrist band and a deep purple neck warmer. I’d say she was 24 years old.
Sitting at the narrow wo…
User story: the lady and the feather
She seemed surrounded by a bubble of quiet calm. All around her the frantic motions of a London Underground carriage jolted to and fro, but time slowed as it passed through her small part of it.
A paper journal was open on her knees, wrapp…
Working rural & remote with the Lumia 2520
The path led me over a small hill. To the right were fields ploughed into undulating patterns and to my left a haze blanketed the North Sea. There’s a bench up here, miles from the nearest town, wide enough to serve as a makeshift desk and s…
Tablets, sunsets and ergonomic misadventures
The number of sunsets observed through the digital filter of an iPad is increasing.
From about the second week in July, when British schools start their summer holidays, the waterfront near my house fills with tourists who flock to see one …
Preserving the medium and message of digital artefacts
In 100 years time, will it be important for your descendants to be able to look back at the digital artefacts from your life in the same form you experienced them? For instance, today I could look back at a letter written by my great, great grand…
Trusting the digital filters in front of our eyes
We do not see what we see, we see who we are. Seeing is never a passive act, the mind introduces filters which alter our perception. Perhaps fear of surveillance will give way to a recognition computers are more objective than humans? — Flori…
New Apple hire points to computational photography
From The Register:
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Partinen, who later confirmed that Apple is indeed his new paymaster, started at Nokia working on the optics for the Finnish firm’s N8 model. He was one of the key developers of the PureView 808, a Symbian mobile with a …