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NewsFountains is a new way of reading news instantly while drinking water from water fountains. The design merges the properties of water and digital information, enabling people to obtain the physical essence for our body and the digital nutrition for our mind simultaneously.
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Water Information
•for body, for mind• quench thirst, satisfy curiosity • scarcity of resources• circulates• takes the shape of the container or medium
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properties
common Merging Opportunity
ImplementationPROJECTOR
COMPUTER
BUTTON
NEWS
Vision• Represent abstract information inside materials of the physical world (soul) Aristotle (body)
“The truly profound technologies are those that disappear.”---Mark Weiser
“The truly profound interfaces are those that disappear.” ---me
• Merge the physical world and digital world in a natural way (direct) (common properties) “Mismatching of abstract information with the physical world materials is like assigning an integer into a computer memory space of string type, where you need to create an extra linking function called ParseString(num).”
---me
Vision
Kiwi Project at Microsoft Incubation Education Teamkids “feed” knowledge to digital pet in a virtual world
In real worldNews Fountain Incense Sticks Chopsticks
Conclusion
Dangling String sound “indicates” internet trafficAmbient E-mail Notification music “indicates” e-mail loadsMusic Bottles bottles “contain” music
What is next? From “implication” to “explication”.
