Mark Rolston Presentation at Emerging Communication Conference & Awards 2009 Europe

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Monday, 16 November 2009

Mark RolstonChief Creative Officer

Beyond the Handset

“Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand”

Murphy

“I’m your main connection to the switchboard of the soul...the Santa Claus of the subconscious” Strange Days

The first phenomenon:.

Something has happened to the handset

IxDA 2009

This has become a window

The physical object is

Open Systems Invite Innovation

it can be anything you want it to be

The second phenomenon:

people are frequently managing two lives

First Life

Second Life

inevitably our first and second lives are becoming en-tangled

The third phenomenon:

computing, in particular the human interface,

is undergoing a radical change

Touch was the important first step

It bridges the physical and virtual

the Wii introduced 3d control

technologies still in the lab are teaching the computer to better

Microsoft’s Project Natal

There are also trivial examples

IxDA 2009

http://www.gravitytrap.com/sniff

some even create questions about what is real

http://www.marcotempest.com

some even create questions about what is real

http://www.marcotempest.com

Pranav Mistry, 6th Sense, MIT, 2009

It’s a self reinforcing loop:real becomes virtual becomes real...

University of Washington Laboratory virtual reconstruction of The Old City of

It’s a self reinforcing loop:real becomes virtual becomes real...

University of Washington Laboratory virtual reconstruction of The Old City of

all of this points to a dramatic shift in the way computing fits into our lives

the problem with computing is that it requires computers

computing was relegated to special places

computing still requires we go into it’s world

but it is starting to become part of our world

would it be a stretch to say this shift is as big as the internet itself?

Ubiquitous Computing?Augmented Reality?

Computing in Context

this is the growing world of computing that is about our world - people, places,

things.

and accessible within our world.

Contemplate your own discomfort

Ralph Bremenkamp | www.frogdesign.com

“Borgs” outside the MIT, circa 1995

a weird question:

would you give away an eye to have it replaced with a camera?

Rob Spence | www.eyborgblog.com

the body becomes a node

mass-market examples are here already

Airstrip OB Remote Monitoring Application

Google Latitude | www.google.com/latitude

Nintendo Wii | www.wii.com

frog design, e-monitors, 2009

beclever.wordpress.comwww.sixuntilme.comDexcom | www.dexcom.com

So what happens when the device that records your medical status is also the device you use to update your social connections?”Lee Maguire, 2009

your heartbeat becomesa conversation

one last consideration,

one last reference,

and one last (weird)

question

frogdesign Dattoo. 2005

That thing absorbing and beaming bits won’t be a device you’ll be wearing.

It will be you.

“I can see through satellites now”Warren Ellis & Adi Granov, Iron Man, 2008

we know how that feels, right?

how quickly is augmented reality leading us to feel the need

for an augmented body to fully take advantage of it?

in other words...

Would you give an eye to see through satellites?

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