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5 posts tagged iot
.@Flowmill : by @owlproject and @wna. A floating millhouse + waterwheel on the River Tyne, powering a series of mechanical musical instruments. Opens March 2012.
Makego by Chris O’Shea turns your iphone (and lego) into a toy vehicle - an ice cream truck, race car or river boat. Select your vehicle within Makego, then interact through animations and sound. Created with Open Frameworks.
Cryoscope haptic weather forecasting device that lets you *feel* the temp outside (perfect for those too lazy to open the door).
And for cynics, “…the best trick of the Cryoscope isn’t its ability to hit a perfect temperature, but its ability to hit the perfect perceived temperature. Due to the ‘cold’ nature of metal, the temperature is adjusted to match human perceptions of hot and cold,” writes inventor Robb Godshaw of Syyn Labs.
via @michaelshorter
Sweet Tweet - a physical output from a digital input. Each time Uniform agency gets a new follower on their twitter account, a sweet is a dispensed into their studio - through a playful cuckoo cluck and down a course, similar to a marble run.
This #iot approach can be used to incentivise and creating playfulness around various things, not just increasing Twitter followers. And the prize doesn’t have to be a sweet thing in the literal sense… How about a roulette of options - a ‘duvet morning’ or someone else making you a cup of tea?
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