Toybox
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When puzzling around with a design challenge it can help to fiddle around with different things for inspiration. In real physical design, this can be truly inspirational, exploiting the way taht as humans we exploit tangibility to aid our thinking.
- Some industrial designers keep toyboxes of gadgets and stuff to inspire them.
- Ideo have what they call the Tech Box http://www.ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp?x=50035
- Artists keep photos, postcards and magazine cutouts.
- Dressmakers keep fabric swatches.
- What is the computational equivalent of the toybox, the garden shed, the needlework bag?
Some ideas for inspiration. Ask yourself - what could i do with that, that they haven't even thought of
Subverting Ubicomp equipment:
I really want one of these. -Dan
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