Plug & Chug: 2006 IDEA Awards
By Eddie_Lopez. Friday, 30. June 2006, 01:59:49
The 2006 IDEA Awards
IDSA and BusinessWeek article on products awarded for design. I guess any designs that come out in the second half of 2006 are just out of luck.
There's 108 of 'em, so saddle up and enjoy.
Shown is the "Talking Tactile Tablet" with a quote from Donald Norman (from BusinessWeek).
Another spiffy product was the Duo shower curtain rod. Simply, a second bar on your shower curtain:
The Duo is a spacing-saving dual-rod system that functions as both a shower curtain rod and a towel bar. Taking cues from behaviors witnessed in cramped bathrooms, the Duo acknowledges the common practice of hanging towels over the shower curtain to dry, often remaining there until the next shower, and redesigns the rod to make it more practical for such habits.
WIDGETIZE
kmaage # 30. June 2006, 06:38
A camera converts images to arrays of pixels in a dental retainer, such that the tongue can "feel" the image and transmit the information to the visual center of the brain. The brain "sees" the image not through the nerves in the retina, but the nerves in the toungue.
http://www.wicab.com/research/vision/vision.html
(pdf) http://kaz.med.wisc.edu/Publications/JRRD1098.pdf
A camera converts images to sound patterns, such that the brain can recognize it as visual information.
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/
Both these techniques require training, but then again, so did we! From birth to age three, according to this interesting timeline: http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/infant/page7.htm
Stu_Pedasso # 30. June 2006, 12:20
Eddie_Lopez # 30. June 2006, 13:15
Yeah, I noticed that doubleclick in opera as well.
I should have used this link instead:
http://www.idsa.org/IDEA2006/galleries/idea/idea2006/index.htm it might be a little easier to use.