Optical communication for phone to phone augmented reality using consumer cameras.

Shows live streams of information at different scales and with different views that animate smoothly between each other. Topic modeling and semantic parsing of the text are used to display trends over time of your information. The interface provides a means of reflection on information streams at different conceptual levels of detail.

SpaceMarks is a tool for spatially organizing bookmarks and emails. It incorporates a consistent zoomable space for organizing your personal information. One can intuitively group and cluster and move items, and then also bind meta data or tags to the spatially organized objects.

Simplicity Complex is a rule based art work, created by visualizing all 3 word combinations containing "mit media lab". For example the phrase "simplicity meditates claustrophobically": "si(m)pl(i)ci(t)y (medi)t(a)tes c(la)ustropho(b)ically", contains the phrase within the phrase.

JotWatch is a device designed with the singular purpose of easing quick note taking on the go. Today’s busy lifestyle demands that we juggle a variety of tasks dynamically. Note-taking has been a crucial aspect of this, allowing us to extend our working memory on demand. However, the ease-of-use and speed of physical systems has proven robust against the advances of digital technology.

In this project lifestream information (bookmarks and emails) are aggregated and used to generate user interests, which in turn are combined to generate ambient maps of connectivity projected on the ceiling of a social space. The idea was to act as a compass for social navigation, giving subtle hints of related topics and connectivity of interests between people in the room.

Clustering Interface for delicious data.

Photograph of each individual water droplet I used during my morning shower, taken with a high-speed camera. Every drop of water was photographed, cropped, and individually printed (Roughly 1,682,425 droplets photographed). Final print is 3 feet by 50 feet! You obviously see only a small subset of the droplets in the cropped photo above.