Over the last few years, social computing has been relegated to asynchronous websites like FaceBook and Twitter, where users connect with many people and their collective information is harvested for the larger group. However these are still largely individually actions, not synchronous… yet we call it “social”. I would like to expand that definition. … »

Wouldn’t you have loved, as a child, to have a friendly pillow that would tell you stories? A pillow that looks like he would cuddle you all the time and when you put your head on him, he would start singing songs? I would… and thankfully somebody had the idea to actually create this. … »

Chris Harrison and Scott Hudson (Carnegie Mellon University) came up with a way to use any flat surface as a gesture based input device (Scratch input). An absolute breakthrough which makes extraordinary interactions, like for example controlling your television or music player with your wooden kitchen table, possible. … »