We need to do reconfigure everyday objects, and our lifestyles, as our world downsizes around us.
And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.
The researchers got volunteers to think up either ordinary or unusual uses for everyday objects like Kleenex.
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His black-and-white pictures show a different side of everyday objects, another perspective of what is around us.
About 70 everyday objects which were sent 18 miles (30km) into space from a Somerset school have gone missing.
Inspired by everyday objects, Castiglioni made use of ordinary materials to create some of the twentieth century's most classic designs.
In the novel, the protagonist, Kemal, collects everything that his adored Fusun touches a thousand everyday objects that are assembled here.
He also had difficulties recognizing colors, faces, and everyday objects, yet he was surprised to find that he could still write.
Like Jobs, Maloof aimed to imbue everyday objects with beauty and practicality, and recognized the role of intuition in achieving this.
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Adrian Cable, Gauri Nanda and Michael Bove from MIT's Media Lab developed computerized fabric patches that could be placed in clothing or everyday objects.
The Khmer people have continued using this artistic legacy for the ornamentation of everyday objects, houses, monuments, in addition to public and religious buildings.
By using your hands or placing other unique everyday objects on the surface you can interact with, share and collaborate like you've never done before.
Last year, two MIT media lab grads set out to make the Internet of Things closer to reality by connecting everyday objects to humans in a natural way.
Meera Syal and Jo Brand joined one of the first groups, playing "dementia fact bingo" and testing their memory of everyday objects, such as the features on a one-penny piece.
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The term refers to a set of technologies that will connect the real and digital worlds by embedding sensors in everyday objects and establishing real-time communications between objects and machines.
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Squeezed in the TV and smart phone market by Samsung, LG, Apple and others, Panasonic, Sharp, Toyota and others are trying to adapt their expertise in precision engineering and industrial design to everyday objects.
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"Our goal is to develop a robot that behaves like MacGyver, the television character from the 1980s who solved complex problems and escaped dangerous situations by using everyday objects and materials he found at hand, " said project leader Prof Mike Stilman.
The idea calls for everyday household objects like refrigerator magnets and bedside alarm clocks to display other useful information.
SmartThings promises to let you do just that, offering a system that connects everyday physical objects to a cloud-based control center.
The Maker movement, the do-it-yourself approach that fosters the joy of making items with everything from high technology to everyday tools and objects, offers one promising model for inspiring innovation.
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And Marcel Duchamp and other Dadaists had elevated the banal objects of everyday life to art back in the 1920s.
In every issue, ReadyMade magazine offers readers a plethora of ways to save energy and do right by the planet, through reusing and transforming objects from everyday life.
Ericsson speculated earlier this year about how this will play out in everyday life, where objects will have friends, post messages, follow other objects and engage in multi-dimensional dialogue, even cooking your dinner before you arrive home for the night.
In the same way, we use objects in our everyday lives to stand in for concepts that are too complex, or too abstract, to wholly grasp.
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Through April 1, MoMA PS1 exhibits include mixed-media objects that explore religious iconography some made from everyday material like tin foil and glitter by Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, a gay artist who attended Catholic school.
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