the gesture layerNoah Feehan - NYT R&D

HI!

Noah Feehan, @akamediasystem

Now: Maker, New York Times R&D Lab

Before: New Media Art -> startup world -> MIT Media Lab -> startup world

What I do:Bring back souvenirs from the Land of the Recently Possible

{ user : "Me" }

The last decade

Ideas like Internet of Things, Quantified Self, Wearables, and Ambient Devices

Instances of these ideas emerge, recede, and re-emerge as the tech landscape changes.

SPOT watch

nabaztag

chumby

Ambient Devices

http://www.flickr.com/photos/artfilmdesign/

Ambient / Glanceable

Source: Targray

sparkdevices.comrfduino.com

Custom Tones/Vibrations

Yahoo Pipes

isallaboutmath.files.wordpress.com/

IFTTT

Nudgeables

photos by Kate Hartman

Google Glass / Google Now

Common traits

Scale of interaction can be very different, both physically and temporally

You can use these things and still carry on a conversation

If you're reading text, it's not working

Discreet

photo Kate Hartman

(not like Bluetooth Guy)

http://toohighortullo.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/dude1.gif

Discrete

http://www.corbisimages.com/

Negative Feedback

Onward!

The bespoke poke

Restore eye contact to the public realm

Not everything needs to be an app

Thanksnoah.feehan@nytimes.com@akamediasystem@nytlabsnytlabs.com