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Smart organic windows: MIT CROMA

Posted on Jan 28, 2010 by Jeff Watson

MIT’s CROMA group brings together researchers from media arts, architecture, and chemical engineering. The group “aims at developing technologies and use case scenarios for building responsive, programmable, and energy-smart architectural components.” Their “smart organic window” project proposes the use of electrochromic organic polymers to enable touch- and motion-sensitive brise-soleil techniques. Continue reading →

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Drawdio: Turn almost anything into a Theremin

Posted on Apr 5, 2009 by Jeff Watson

Everybody should have one of these. You can learn how to make them here.

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Transmedia Storytelling 101

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Jeff Watson

Henry Jenkins, head of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium, has shared an excellent list of 10 key concepts in the theory and practice of transmedia storytelling. This is a great … Continue reading →

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C3: 10 Key Concepts

Posted on Mar 11, 2008 by Jeff Watson

Sam Ford has helpfully put together a list of ten key concepts that have been articulated in various forms on the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium‘s blog, complete with links to the relevant posts, articles and off-site resources. Here’s the list: … Continue reading →

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ROBOAT

Posted on Oct 15, 2007 by Jeff Watson

This summer we began work on the third of three autonomous entities we’ve been developing with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and Renew Media. It’s an “unmanned surface vehicle,” or water robot, made for protests on or near aqueous … Continue reading →

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Tangible User Interface

Posted on Sep 20, 2007 by Jeff Watson

The cumbersome process of capturing and editing becomes fluid in the improvisation of a story, and accessible as a way to create a final movie. It was shown how a graphical interface created for video production informs the design of … Continue reading →

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