Social Barometer Video

Below is a video which shows the Social Barometer in use (both recording and playing).

Goodbye

After some rearrangement of groups in the project...we are no longer Flamingo. We are now FencePost Podcasts. I can barely contain my excitment towards this venture :(

update

product in developement, prototyping phase. refining idea.

A Step Forward

With an in-class demonstration yesterday, Flamingo demonstrated their latest development of their Barometer concept.

Essentially, the Barometer concept has been turned on its head. User interaction has increased whereby the user dictates the weather to the Barometer to be sent to the user's friends who also own the product.

Here's a short video explaining the concept. Hope you can understand the accents!



Manufacturing the meter wasn't as hard as we first thought!

A Sneaky Peaky!

Just in time for tomorrow's meeting with Microsoft Interaction Designer Richard Banks, here's two concept ideas Flamingo have put together!





Have a looky at his webpage if you get the chance, quite a lot of interesting information and pictures of design expos.

Clicky for his page!

Steve's Research

I visited my granda Gordon over the Christmas break. He was the ideal candidate to be my grandperson to refer to in the Microsoft project, mainly because he is the only grandparent I have left but also he a vast store of knowledge and enjoys a good blether so information was garenteed.

My granda talked with me in his house, the first instance was me asking his permission to include him in the project, 2 and a half hours later of talking and a couple of cups of tea later I was able to leave. Pretty much every detail was explained, right down to how he used the foil tops off milk bottles to fix a tank engine in the war and other events that happened in the army and his time spent in the REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) division.

Here's the man himself.

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More to follow no doubt...even if the stories might have been heard before they're still brilliant

Continuing Research

Having visited my grandmother Joyce over the Christmas break, I thought it best to involve her in the Microsoft brief as my grandperson to refer to.

My gran talked with me in a rather informal chat (I believe tea and biscuits constitutes as "informal") about what she had done with her life up until recent, being altogether frank about how she had to leave the workforce early (as a full time maternity nurse, delivering many of my friends in school!) due to a heart attack.



But on a lighter note! I gained a very valuable insight in to a field of work my gran continues to pursue. Every week, volunteers from the community (my hometown of Paisley, Renfrewshire) gather to record the local newspaper on to cassettes, which are then distributed throughout the town for free to the visually impaired.

More info here:
Clicky!

Short video of my gran setting up:
Clicky!

Perhaps a device could be made to network people, visually impaired or not, around the world with their local news back home?



My gran is way awesome.