Building a World the New Way

I found this fantastic video about a guy building a world for his sick girlfriend. And I’ve got to say it (and the guy in Australia will have to forgive me) THAT is the is the coolest job in the world! And it might not be that far off in the future.

The only thing I’m [...]

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A small taste of the world to come

This video shows how convenient it is when one thing can transform itself from one thing to another automatically.

(I would suggest you turn the volume down low, as the sound is quite strong in the beginning and there is no commentary)

http://www.bloomframe.com/

Imagine the same thing one every scale from the bumps in the wallpaper, the furniture , the [...]

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Amazing color, patterns and textures coming from your favorite squid to all the objects around you

In this TED Video you can see how squids use their enormous flexibility in their skin color and texture to do some amazing things.

Can you imagine when all the the objects around you can do the same thing?

It feels so amazing to work in an area with such immense potential [...]

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Cool video that shows interesting steps towards a world where objects are flexible in a new way

I found this cool video from  TEDx Berlin where Fabian Hemmert shows his work with cellphones and handheld devices that change their physical properties, like size and center of gravity, to show different internal states to the user.

I also find his work on dynamic knobs really interesting. I think it is necessary to use dynamic hardware [...]

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Scientific Conferences relevant to SRCMR

Here I list different conferences that can be interesting to attend if you which to learn more about SRCMR. The conferences are rarely devoted entirely to SRCMR but I only include them if they have some content from that field. When I can find central site for the type of conference I link to that or [...]

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Research papers relevant to SRCMR

Altough I do not think that I can ever come close to the two repositories of papers and links regarding SRCMR on the web one by Sam Slee and one by Neil Desmond, I maintain this list of the papers I have read and my notes on them. I add papers as I read them, and [...]

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