electronics
Tangible Tuesdays: Frontline GlovesKevin Cannon & Ashwin Rajan’s Frontline Gloves are a pair of networked gloves that allow firefighters to use hand gestures to communicate wirelessly in low-visibility, low-oxygen situations. The design incorporates customized electronics based on the ATMega chip, a wireless Xbee module, a sonar sensor, ultra-bright LEDs and bend sensors. frontline gloves, networked, gestures, communication, sensor, LEDs, wireless, electronics, messages, Kevin Cannon, Ashwin Rajan, firefighters, working, conditions, Interaction Design |
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Bad Design / Good DesignIt’s hard to find examples of bad design that you can publish on a blog. I don’t suppose that’s surprising, as we all want to tell stories about our successes, but we’re happier when the failures fade into the gloom of obscurity. bad design, failures, complex, unused, useless, redundant, remote control, controllers, consumer, electronics, good design, iPhone, useful, hand, held, fingers, confusing, confusion, flick, tap, controls, relevant, Guggenheim, museum |
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