Steve Jobs' Vision of the World

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvEiSa6_EPA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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I Mirabilia: dolls that take care of the emotional life of hospitalised children

I Mirabilia from Erika Rossi on Vimeo.

A lovely project by Erika Rossi - I Mirabilia (the Wonders) are a series of three interactive dolls for hospitalized children that allow them to express their fears and find comfort when at their most fearful.

Have a look at her website here http://www.erikarossi.com/wordpress/ for more info.

RHYME: designing smart textiles for music and health.

At the Ambience 11 Conference in Sweden I met Birgitta Cappelen from the Institute of Design, Oslo. On chatting to her about SMARTlab it turns out she visited us at our base in London in October 2009.

They run RHYME, a five year research project (2010-2015) designing smart textiles for music and health.

ORFI - Anne and Adam musicking from RHYME.no on Vimeo.

The aim of the project is to improve health and life quality for persons with severe disabilities, through use of “co-creative tangibles” - ICT based, mobile, networked and multimodal things, which communicate musical, narrative and communicative principles. Under development are three new prototypes of co-creative tangibles, to be tested together with families and children with special needs at Haug School and Resource Centre. The project is financed by the Research Council of Norway through the VERDIKT programme.