Wi Fi audio streaming concept

This is the final outcome from Andy's project in the first semester.

This concept is a way of sharing your music with people wirelessly and legally by having a system that allows close range audio streaming.

Interactive toolbox

This was a project that was done for Microsoft, this project involved Product Design and Interactive Media Design. 

The brief was to Bridge the Gap between generations using technology, our group chose to create a toolbox that you could leave voice messages on your grandparents toolbox asking for help or tips and they could reply via voice messages.

Costing

This is a touch random but i am currently trying to get my old mini back on the road as it is in need of some tlc (and new doors) but i have just been thinking about the whole car industry and how the government has bailed them out and the banks. I don't understand why we should bail companies out because everyday lots of little businesses get put out of business by big companies so why should the big boys get special treatment?

Forgot i Had This Set Up

Ok, i had forgotten that i had set this blog up but i will add some stuff soon.

speaking to the forth years (and idea babies)

i found tuesday's morning session really refreshing because it basically did for me what i feel the studio is supposed to do, that is get the third and forth years to communicate without a drink in hand. The ideas created maybe in my opinion were far too zaney to use but it really did for me break down a barrier of lack of communication between the two classes and will hopefully make the studio less like indivuals in a room and more like 2 classes that feel comfortable just randomly with anything (if that even makes any sense :S)

cultural probing and 100 sketches

I have been thinking about the cultural probing and looking back on it despite the sheer cost and the annoyance of people wasting your time and saying they would do it and not bothering their arse i feel it was really useful. I mean although i had a topic that wasn't necessarily a strong interest (or at all) it put me in touch with some really interesting and helpful people. It actually influenced more of my hundred ideas than i thought it did at the time. It wasn't even just getting the probes back it was the seemingly random information i appear to have gathered just from talking to the people whilst handing out the probes and collecting them. Everyone seems to have an opinion on the hundred ideas we had to come up with for our project, so here is mine. It was relatively easy, i dont mean from a finalised idea point of view, just from a totally efficient way of getting some idea's flowing. The only real issue i had with the 100 sketches is that sometimes i felt a sketch was totally irrelevant because what was written was easier to understand than tryin to create a visualisation of it.

the packaging idea

i was reading a blog (shocker) and i think its a great idea of amazon to revert back to old skool methods of packaging. I mean realistically a toy for a child is tested to basically ensure it will not break immediately (hopefully) when a child gets it so why the hell wrap it in bubble wrap and fire it in 20 million boxes?? its soo bloody pointless, the only real issue i suppose it posses is that shops will need to either have a picture of it or have one out on display but this is surely a massive contrabution to trying to reduce cost of the products, waste, production time and best of all it means the packaging is fully recyclable. My only question is about the inks that are used to print onto the card, will these contaminate the card in any way??