Author Archives: michelle

FreshDirect iPhone App

March 3, 2010 – 8:02 PM

Popular NY grocery delivery service, FreshDirect, recently launched their long-anticipated iPhone app with the help of Schematic. Alex Rainert shared some great insights about the design process on his blog, everydayUX.  Chris Bray, Director of Technology at Schematic, has a great summary of the project as well. There is also a Wall Street Journal’s article [...]

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MIT’s Flyfire Floating 3-D Display

February 25, 2010 – 3:34 PM

Granted this is just conceptual right now, but MIT’s SENSEable City and ARES Labs have begun a project called Flyfire that “aims to transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive display environment.”  The idea is that by programming large quantities of micro helicopters with LEDs, you have a swarm of pixels that [...]

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The Rise of the Fit Bits

February 23, 2010 – 2:39 PM

It has never been a better time to be a nerd getting into shape. Over a year ago, the Core Performance Center opened in Santa Monica, CA, which captures users’ biofeedback (heart rate, power output, VO2 Max) to generate future workouts through a complex rules engine.  With so much data to play with and learn [...]

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New Vision Based Mobile Interface

January 21, 2010 – 6:51 PM

A team at Tokyo University recently developed a device that translates in-air finger movement to input commands so that the device can be used without physically touching the screen. Unlike Sixth Sense, this system does not require surrounding sensors or finger markers. According to Gigazine in an article translated from the original Japanese, [...]

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Soft Circuit Workshop at Schematic

January 14, 2010 – 10:01 PM

For a fun diversion, the Schematic New York technology department invited Becky Stern to the office to give a soft circuits workshop.  Becky works as associate editor for MAKE and CRAFT magazines and the pop-up NYC Gizmodo Gallery recently featured her TV-B-Gone Hoodie.
While companies like Philips are making high tech LED fabrics like Lumalive, the [...]

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