We have talked a lot about the questions of online identity, but somehow we always got stuck at one burning question: how can we decide about information on the web whether is relevant to a certain person?
picture by bujatt
We often search for people on the internet. If we search for a person’s name we will have to choose from hits to find the right website that is relevant to that person It is relatively easy to find a famous person, but it could be a real pain to find someone not that well-known which is true to the majority of the population.
Why do we have to pair the website with the person when we have searched for it? The best person to decide whether a website is relevant to someone or not is obviously the person who is searched for. In an ideal situation it is me who knows the best if any information on the web is about me or not. That is exactly what This is Me! is for.
A person is identified by the personal information (e-mail address, Facebook ID, Open ID). The relevant websites can be validated by approving a website, or by clicking the This is Me! plug-in button on the search engine.
participating people:
Judit Boros, Attila Bujdosó, Bálint Ferenczi, Attila Nemes
Still a concept.
Kitchen Budapest
Stupid robots rule the world!
Above all of them it is the Cat-licker device, and now it is official: it won the Bacarobo Europe 2010 contest.
Magnificient robot builders are: Zoltán Csík-Kovács, Eduárd Sík (supporters: blint & me)
photo by blint
Cat licker (Macskanyalogató robot) from Kitchen Budapest on Vimeo.
It is a microcontroller driven communication tool for plants. It uses an online database to identify the needs of the choosen plant, and collects realtime data like soil and air humidity, light and temperature.
Talking Flower sends us the plant’s needs in short messages through gsm, microblog and e-mail. It has a small screen and a speaker for direct notifications. Connecting to a computer via USB its personality, display and sound can be configured like an avatar.
An earlier version of Talking Flower was presented @ Art’n Science Night, CHB / Berlin
see more –>http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/node/764
participating people: Judit Boros, Márton András Juhász, Lajos Tóth…László Kiss, Zsolt Korai and Ágoston Nagy….. sounds
The Poem Bean is a silly little gadget communicating in an oldschool way – with Morse code.
It is blessed with a poetic soul and has an eager thirst for knowledge. Like a tiny new media hero, it carries a modern-day message in a bottle, spreading good-luck and charm to every Bean-holder.
You can store a poem or any personal message in your bean. Push the Bean’s belly so that the LED eye starts blinking the encoded poem or the (secret) message in Morse code.
If you know Morse code, just read out the hidden message. If you are unfamiliar with Morse code, visit the Bean’s website –> http://versbab.kibu.hu/
There you will find a bean-translating application which helps you to decode the Bean easily or to teach it a new poem/message.
participating researchers: Lajos (firmware), Macsek (bean panther), Marci (hardware), Judit (design and graphics)
more info –>http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/projects/poembean
http://versbab.kibu.hu/bean page developed by Zoli, Krisztián & Dani, graphics by Judit & Zoli
The bean was exhibited @ Pixelache Festival 2010 – Helsinki / Finland
Szofita made a small animation about the bean-genesis. You can see more about her work here.
The Poem Bean is a silly little gadget communicating in an oldschool way – with Morse code.
It is blessed with a poetic soul and has an eager thirst for knowledge. Like a tiny new media hero, it carries a modern-day message in a bottle, spreading good-luck and charm to every Bean-holder.
Hydroponic plant growing and fish-developing device – Thesis project at BUTE (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
The goal of my thesis was to design an eco-kitchen product and its surrounding that calls the attention to eco-conscious way of living and consuming, and gives high priority to up to date technical possibilities.
Plantus is a self-supporting system for growing plants, herbs and vegetables using nutrient solutions without soil, caters fish (also consumables) and disposes a separated sprouting unit. As indoor equipment it can be used as a space divider set, as well. Plantus is interactive, communicates with the customer and completes today’s kitchen to make it a real eco-tech part of a 21st century household.
Here is a brief presentation about the main functions of Plantus.
see here –>http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/node/800
Plantus project is the result of the co-operation of BUTE Industrial Design faculty and Kitchen Budapest with the help of András Szalai, dr. Manuéla Lukács, Márton András Juhász, Melinda Sipos, Péter Grőb and Zoltán Csík-Kovács.