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Media Lies
Our role as designers is as much creating applications, solving problems and adapting the existing as it is about providing a vision. Creating utopias or dystopias in order to crystallise the present. Instead of solving every detail, it is often more important to set a direction, propose where to start the solving.
Media Lies project deals with this inherent contradiction in design, especially present in technological field, as the underlying functions are increasingly obscured. To the layman our work may appear real magic. Where do we set the line between using technology to communicate an idea and to get the job done? Is the former a form of lying? Is the latter worth it, if the constraints render it impossible to make it as good as imagined?
This 2 week pressure project consisted of two halves: First week, create a believable media lie, a liminal technology that could almost be. Second, envelope it to a medial representation, a website, news article, TV spot etc.
Here you will find the outcome of this thought provoking, often humorous, often controversial project. The boundary between reality and fiction is blurring.
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 Media Lies poster of all projects (3.3 MB)
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QuickstarD is an easy to use software application for Mac OS X working in combination with the QuickstarDongle. After installing the QuickstarD software on your Mac and plugging in the Dongle booting your Mac will only take 7 seconds: Link to the website.
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smllr.com is a new service enhancing the experience for flickr.com users; they are able to tag their favourite photos with "smell-tags" and get scented hardcopies of the photos delivered at home
www.smllr.com.
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Speakers' Corner 2.0 is a web based service of the electronic company Sautrn, which allows everyone to use his private webcam and a microphone to express himself, using the existing infrastructure of the markets. Link to the website.
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The term liquid bytes represents a concept of storing digital data in water molecule, developed by the Institute of Digital Science, Tokyo/Japan. By the use of a ultraviolet laser beam certain molecules of the water can be grouped into so called clusters. The way the molecules are grouped together in these unique clusters, serves as the codification of the particular information. website
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The roller called wallpeppr is capapble of coating various surfaces with images downloaded from the flickr online image community. wallpeppr is connected to the computer via a network cable (a wireless version is on the go). The driver-software plugs into the flickr web-interface which holds controls for the output size of the image.
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The SaveButton is a special RFID button wich is integrated in the school uniforms of japanese children and is able to track there movement. If the children enter "forbidden" zones like amusement arcades, fastfood restaurants or parkways, during the official instruction times, the SaveButten emits unpleasantly high tones. These high frequency waves are led into the internal ear and cause the person to immediate reversal.
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A 3DStudioMax Model and animation is projeted over the kitchen´s table of the japan based restaurant "The home of the Orange Koi". This adverteisment project was done with a plasma laser LIGHTOR LASER HE 1120plasmator in February 2006. Using this kind of laser plasma, we have been the first to succeed in displaying "real 3D images" in a space where there is nothing but air.for further information please visit our .
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Finally, we are able to dub the conventional IQ-test with an independent procedure. Education, social background and any influence by the respectiv society become nonrelevant, cultural barriers are consequently overcome. In just about 30.secondes, the IQ-Scanner generates a precise spectrum of cerebral potentiality for combinations and recalculates these automaticaly into applicable ability.
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It is proved that during the first three years human's life is shaped strongly in their development. People can reconstruct this time based on nostalgically clarified memories of relatives and the neat baby photos, but somehow the own picture is missing.
The new company Mnemosyne.com is now offering baby or child clothing with an integrated camera, operated with the warmth of the body which keeps the camera taking pictures as soon as something crucial is changing in the field of vision out of the babys personal point of view.
a project from Marion Rosemarie Wagner
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The Genesis© Game Editor is able to create entire levels for computer games by means of some variables. During seven simple steps the Game Editor generates the lighting mood, epoch, sky, geographical structures, vegetation, buildings, infrastructure like roads or bridges and finally exports all this to current game engines. Through this innovative conception it is no longer necessary to create every single object by modeling or texturing. As only trees or plants have learned to grow, now every game play-related property will be formed by the Genesis© Game Editor. The easy birth of your game.
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Turn your mobile into a speed trap! Just attach the special mobileRadar-antenna to your mobile, get it calibrated by the police, and hunt! If you catch a car driving high speed, your mobile integrated camera will take a picture of it, which will be sent to the police automatically. The driver will get a ticket and you collect mobileRadar bonus points.
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Emo Camelka - an automatic photo camera, controlled by emotions of the user.
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Since this year the Hello World AG has begun promoting their new "hello world" data package for newborn children. This package is basically a domain and communication service device for the World Wide Web. The intention of Hello World AG is to provide a virtual identity with sufficient capacities to each person. With the birth of a new child not only the symbolic act of naming also the foundaments for providing a virtual identinty are carried out.
A project from Ivonne Dippmann
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Magic Eye is the first remote controlled contact lense. With a handy pocket mirror you can darken your contact lense easily by pushing one single button. You also can activate color filter to change your vision of color. So a cloudy, grey sky becomes a bright, blue sky.
PR-Campaign and Advertisment
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