posted May 13, 2012, 7:06 PM by Arnav Shah
Here's my "wallet". It's four cards and some cash held together by a hair tie.
I like to carry as little as possible when I'm walking around or, as more often is the case, roller blading around. A wallet is cumbersome and despite that my wallet was small, it would always become cluttered. So I did away with the wallet itself, keeping only the essentials: a credit card, atm card, ID, MetroCard, and some cash. It was a hack at the time, but has been good enough to go with daily. |
posted May 6, 2012, 8:03 PM by Arnav Shah
[
updated May 6, 2012, 8:09 PM
]
Imagine one of those smart digital photo frames - one that retrieves pictures over wifi. How about applying this concept for more structured forms of information? Like a task list, agenda, or some sort of status information? It seems wasteful to use a whole computer or LCD screen to show off this data. So let's make it real simple: an e-ink screen with single button on it. Pressing the button causes it to connect to a wifi network and retrieve information, like from a web page, that it's set up to receive. It then updates the screen and "turns off". Since this is e-ink, the information would still be visible on the screen.
Mindmap - simply shows the content of some web page
- advantages of paper
- easy to transport
- little/no power usage
- inexpensive
- advantages of digital
- update entire content as needed
- updatable view any means
- hardware
- e-ink screen
- battery powered
- wifi enabled
- single button, which updates the content
- variety of sizes
- software
- web app to set the page to show per screen
- control multiple screens
- since any web content can be shown, the user is free to use any app as long as it works on the web
- use cases
- task list
- agenda (pocket sized screen?)
- status board (with a giant screen)
- virtual printout (paper sized screen)
- situations power isn't available
- multiple screens in a single workspace showing different things
Design
|
|
