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DIY Multitouch:: FTIR initial prototype

Project

Build a multi-touch display for an exhibit piece that tracks people’s finger movements across a surface and translates them into a projected visuals. This project is simpler than your usual multi-touch surfaces, as the projection is not onto the surface, but set towards the exhibit in front of the user. I chose to experiment with [...]

Israblog’s discussion around pro-ana blogs

I posted an article on the Global Voices Advocacy site, translating Israblog’s response to the agressive campaign against pro-ana blogs that has been taking place in the popular Hebrew portal. I’m happy with their decision against taking down these blogs, as with any form of censorship, the border between what is “kosher” and what is [...]

Bedouin youth using IM to bypass customs and prohibitions

Adnan Gharabiya, 34, lives in Wadi al-Na’am, a Bedouin community adjacent to Ramat Hovav in the south of Israel. The place is not connected to the electricity grid or to running water. While working on his thesis, Gharabiya discovered that the Internet, and in particular instant messaging programs, are extremely popular among Bedouin youth, the [...]

Visual Delights for Browsing

Whoa. In the past couple of days I’ve discovered fresh web-based visual effects that give a lot of joy:
1) I am a big supporter of Gmail labels and filters. Since it is my main email box, I use it to subscribe group lists, bills, google alerts as well as receiving personal emails. Labels and filters [...]

THE FUTURE OF CONSUMERISM :: Benjamin Barber

Last night I went to a Hollywood Hill event, a fantastic LA based non-profit which brings together Hollywood creatives around social good. This time Benjamin Barber presented his thought provoking arguments on globalization, interdependence and the impact of consumerist culture.

He described an erosion in the concept of sovereignty, which, today is meaningless. There is no [...]