February 2012
1 post
January 2012
2 posts
Idle Screens - a gallery on Flickr →
Feedair Digital Ticker hands-on -- Engadget →
One of the first consumable glanceables.
Feedair is a USB-powered WiFi enabled digital ticker that will span emails and tweets (or anything else with an RSS Feed) to its old-school dot-matrix display. Controlled with an iOS or Android app, it’s designed as an “unobtrusive display:” for those situations where you can keep a casual eye on a physical device or send messages to...
November 2011
1 post
Now & Next →
by James Bridle
Now & Next is a glanceable for BBC Radio. It tells you what’s on the main BBC (Analogue and Digital) Radio Channels now and next, in the style of the old Ceefax page: frankly one of the best pieces of information design ever.
It fits really well on the iPad and on the Kindle, as all good quiet glanceables should do.
Sitting quietly on my kitchen table, it has already changed...
October 2011
4 posts
Status Updates
Cultured Code
The arrivals page is really an experiment. Many people where asking for more frequent updates on what we are currently working on. But neither this blog nor our Twitter feed seemed to be the right place to mention technical details about the status of our various projects. The arrivals page is our take at a solution to this problem (and has partially inspired other developers,...
The Panic Status Board
by Panic
That board is like magic.” Our support turnaround time is faster than it’s ever been. Just the simple act of “publicizing” those numbers — not in a cruel way, but a “where are we at as a group?” way — has kept the support process on-task and, I think, made it a bit more like a video game. (It helps that when all the boxes are at “zero”, a virtual bottle of champagne appears on-screen,...
Tuba & Meerkat
Microsoft Research Cambridge, Tuba & Meerka, as the paper summary says:
People are accumulating large amounts of personal digital content that play a role in reminiscing practices. But as these collections become larger, and older content is less frequently accessed, much of this content is simply forgotten. In response to this we explore the notions of randomness and serendipity in the...
Notifications (a sketch)
Ben Bashford
A sketch of a possible thing.
September 2011
23 posts
Homesense Bikemap
Russell Davies, Homesense Bikemap is:
It’s very simple. If there are more than five bikes at one of these bike stations the relevant LED comes on. It’s a glanceable guide to which way to walk when we head out. It’s going on the wall by the door. No need to reach for a device, launch an app and navigate to our favourites.
Simple, but I think, good.
Live Wire
By Natalie Jeremijenko, the Live Wire (also called “Dangling String”) is:
“an 8 foot piece of plastic spaghetti that hangs from a small electric motor mounted in the ceiling. The motor is electrically connected to a nearby Ethernet cable, so that each bit of information that goes past causes a tiny twitch of the motor. A very busy network causes a madly whirling string with a...
A Glance at 'Glanceables' | PCWorld →
Trying to find the origin of the term Glanceables. This is the earliest reference I have found so far. [2006]
Liveblog-O-Matic
Another contribution to the genre by Rev Dan Catt, Liveblog-O-Matic lets you follow guardian liveblogs. As Dan says:
“The other handy thing is the autoscroll. The design shows one main entry on the page and hints as previous and next blocks. When a new block arrives the page scroll to show the new entry. This works particularly well on the iPad that I have sitting on the desk next to me....
Glancing
By Matt Webb
“Glancing: An application to allow ultra-simple, non-verbal communication amongst groups of friends online. It’s a desktop application that you use with a group of other people. It lets you “glance” at them in idle moments, and it gives all of you an indication of the activity of glancing going on.”
What is the latest Guardian Headline dot com
Rev Dan Catt
http://www.whatisthelatestguardianheadline.com/
“Which gets the most recent 5 headlines from the site, it’s also an example of our “Keyless” API, which as the name suggests can be called without needed to bother with a key. Making it ideal for throwaway things like this.”
Aweditorium
thesixtyone, Inc.
“Aweditorium reimagines what a music experience feels like on iPad. It takes all of the disparate content surrounding an artist — beautiful photography, lyrics, high definition video, interviews — and ties it all together into a fun, intimate experience on a multi-touch display.”
Trickle
Trickle App
Trickle is a Twitter display for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
<Looks a lot like Dextr (editors note)>
Robot Flâneur
James Bridle
Robot Flâneur is an explorer for Google Street View, featuring nine cities around the world.
Clocks for Robots
Clocks for Robots from BERG on Vimeo.
BERG
“Our “Clock for Robots” is something from this coming robot-readable world. It acts as dynamic signage for computers. It is an object that signal both time and place to artificial eyes.”
pua
Aaron Straup Cope
pua is a simple web application that shows you new photos from your contacts from Flickr as they are uploaded and older photos when they are updated. It can also show you new photos that your contacts have faved.
Dextr + TV = Social TV second screen
Russell Davies
Experimentation with TV & Dextr
Every Time Zone
Amy Hoy & Thomas Fuchs
“A handy little tool for checking timezones around the world. Excellent for meeting planning. EveryTimeZone.com Made in HTML 5 so it works perfectly on the ipad/iphone”
Minimuni
Paul Hammond
It tells me whether I need to get going right now, or whether I have 5 minutes to play with my kid before leaving.
London Bus Timetables
James Darling
“It sits there, quietly updating every 15 seconds. Not glowing, not demanding attention, only offering it at the quickest of glances. As comfortable as a wall clock. From my limited testing, the 6 month old Kindle can do this for about 48 hours before needing a recharge, a figure I’m sure could be increased with some effort.”
Last.Fm Now Playing Information Radiator
David SIngleton
“It’s a simple information radiator that shows you what a Last.fm user is listening to right now.”
Weasley Clock
John McKerrell
My project was suggested by Grant Bell, he thought that I should use mapme.at to create a “Weasley Clock”. This clock is described in the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, it is used by the Weasley family to see where each member of the family is. Instead of telling the time, each hand shows a photo of one of the family members, the clock face has a number of locations written...
Where's Dad?
Toby Barnes, Dan Williams
“A simple focused single use app showing my location to my son on an old iphone”
Arrivals
Toby Barnes, Dan Williams
We are also working on a larger screen one, an app that shows ALL of your friends locations, it clicks clacks when people move, and give you the opportunity for serendipity.
BRIG Tunes
James Wheare
BRIG “have these shared AirTunes speakers in the office, hi-jacked by different people at different times and we were all always wondering what was being played. So, now, on a screen high on the wall, we have a little display that shows you who’s playing what. Glanceable, quiet, polite. James explains the Technical Achievement here.
DEXTR
Tom Taylor, Russell Davies (RIG)
DEXTR is a full screen Twitter client. It shows one tweet at a time, filling the screen. And it accelerates and decelerates depending on how fast your Twitter stream is going.
Romance has lived too long upon this river
James Bridle
A single-serving web page that tells you how high the tide is at London Bridge: explicitly close up, but also, roughly, at a glance.
MixCloudPad
Chris Thorpe
Mix Cloud Pad by Chris Thorpe