ITP Spring Show 2007
by Imran Ali
NYU’s fabulously inventive Interactive Telecommunications Program closed out its Spring Show a couple weeks ago. A handful of playful and provocative projects illustrated some novel directions for mobile adnd wireless messaging…
- 888- iPLATEu - register your mobile so you can text a car’s driver, simply be entering their registration plate.
- Clock-Talk - an alarm clock which messages ‘wake up’ calls to various lighting, heating, music and cooking appliances each morning.
- LettrWritr - an email to snailmail service that could be readily adapted to text messaging.
- imPulse - ‘feeling, seeing and sharing heartbeats over a distance’ an appliance that indicates some potential applications for social signalling.
- MobileVoices - a mobile media and messaging platform to encourage the growth of grassroots citizen media within developing African nations, whilst anonymising the citizen’s contribution to protect their identity.
- Trigr - a service which ‘nudges’ users at random times via SMS with prompts to “take a picture” that then acts as an artefact to bind users in time and space.
