Visuals

Zula
Ons eerste verhaal:

Ons uitgangspunt is erg zakelijk. Het gaat bij dit verhaal meer over het vertrouwen en de zakenrelatie tussen Zula en haar klant. Om toch te kiezen voor een lunch in een restaurant is een manier om een vertrouwensband te scheppen tussen deze twee mensen. En op deze manier zal de communicatie ook duidelijker en beter verlopen.

In de auto:

- Ze is te laat en stuurt haar reserveringsnummer naar het restaurant met daarbij de melding dat ze te laat is en bij het restaurant verschijnt op de gereserveerde tafel een bericht aan haar klant waarin ze zich verontschuldigd.

- Ze zit in de auto en wil zich inlezen over haar klant. Ze zegt de naam en geboortedatum van haar klant en de autocomputer vertelt haar de nodige informatie.

- Deze computer zoekt de meest handige parkeerplek en leidt haar daar ook naar toe. Op de parkeerplek parkeert de auto zichzelf .

Restaurant:

- Zula logt bij de ingang van het restaurant in op haar reserveringsnummer. Bij het inloggen geeft ze aan dat zij en haar klant een uur hebben om te lunchen zodat het restaurant zich daar aan kan aanpassen. Ook geeft ze meteen door wat ze wil drinken zodat het drankje zo snel mogelijk op tafel staat.

- Bij het inloggen komt ere en kledinghanger uit een soort kast achter te computer te voor schijn waar ze haar jas aan kan hangen. Dit haakje is gelinkt aan haar reserveringsnummer en naam en zodra ze zich uitlogt komt automatisch dit haakje met haar jas weer uit de kast.

- Ze loopt naar haar tafel die ze al aangewezen had gekregen toen ze de tafel reserveerde. Bij de reservering kon ze haar tafelvoorkeuren van haar en haar klant doorgeven en het restaurant liet haar gelijk een overzicht zien van het restaurant met daarop een aantal tafelmogelijkheden. Op dat overzicht koos zij ter plekke een tafel en aan die tafel gaat ze nu zitten. De reservering is via de telefoon gemaakt en op een ipad-achtig scherm zie je het overzicht met de mogelijkheden. Dit overzicht met daarop de tafel en reserveringsnummer aangegeven stuurt ze meteen door naar haar klant.

- Ze geeft haar klant een hand en door middel van sieraden, in geval hebben ze beiden een ring, krijgen ze beiden belangrijke informatie over elkaar. De sieraden vertellen ze een aantal eigenschappen en/of irritaties van de persoon zien waardoor een gesprek altijd prettig kan verlopen. Bijvoorbeeld als iemand er niet tegen kan dat de persoon waarmee hij of zij praat de hele tijd alles verbeterd. Deze informatie wordt via een zendertje in je oor ontvangen en door middel van stemgeluid aan de persoon verteld.

- Zula gaat zitten en de stoel scant haar culinaire voorkeuren en allergie informatie. Tegelijkertijd wordt voor de ober ook duidelijk waar Zula zit en waar de gerechten dus geserveerd moeten worden.

- Zula opent het gesprek en legt haar ipad-phone op de interactieve tafel op een daarvoor bedoelde plek. De Ipad-phone maakt verbinding met de tafel en zo kan Zula aan haar klant laten zien wat ze hem wil laten zien. Ze hoeft daarvoor niet op haar ipad-phone te werken maar kan ook op de tafel haar presentatie laten zien met touchscreen en als het nodig is kan ze bepaalde objecten in 3d naar boven laten komen om een duidelijker beeld te geven.

- Op de interactieve tafel verschijnt een pop-up van het restaurant. Zodra dit wordt aangeklikt verschijnen de menumogelijkheden bij de desbetreffende persoon. Ook staan er drankjes bij.

- Ze kiezen een gerecht en gaan verder met de presentatie.

- Het eten wordt gebracht door een ober. Zodra de borden neergezet worden verschijnt er naast het bord een overzicht van de ingrediënten.

- De presentatie van Zula is inmiddels afgelopen en tijdens het eten bespreken ze nog een aantal zaken.

- Als ze klaar zijn met eten, leggen ze hun bestek neer zoals je dat doet als je uitgegeten bent. Zo wordt het bestek gescand en weet het personeel dat ze uitgegeten zijn.

- Zula vraagt de rekening via de tafel. Deze krijgt ze op haar plek getoond. Ze gaat de rekening betalen met haar creditcard. De kaart legt ze op de tafel en deze wordt gescand. Ze toetst haar code in en de rekening is betaald.

- De klant en Zula nemen afscheid.

- Zula logt uit neemt haar jas mee uit de muur. En loopt naar haar auto.

Research links

These are some links that show examples of the technologies we use:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXHbzbrnSV0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIi5CLWk_Og

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO1MrimKehs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eazW3jIIsHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOVprovvChw

Ons tweede verhaal:

Zula: Plans her day the evening before, by dictating what errands and things she needs to do, times to meet people etc., so the smart-pad can organize the day for her in a most effective way. One of the things she needs to do is meet a new client for lunch at 13.00 and they only have one and a half hour for the whole meeting. The smart pad suggests what restaurants are in a close range of where Zula has planned to be before the meeting. She picks one she likes, the smart-pad then makes the reservation for her, also sends a notice to the client's device, with the location of the meeting, the time and the reservation number.

THE NEXT DAY:

A SMART-PAD: a phonelike device that connects and communicates to various applications and gadgets via network. It is a phone, a planner, a computer, a remote control all in one, the size of an iphone. It has a touch screen, can show 3D print images, project holographs that can be manipulated while they're being projected, also a recording device and a payment device and an identity card of the person carrying it, it can be voice controlled aswell.
It contains all your personal data, medical history, cv, etc., ...
Zula is slightly late and the smart pad has already sent a notice to the restaurant and the client that comes on time and while being seated at their table receives a box of his favourite chocolates as an excuse for Zula's being late. Zula enters the restaurant. At the door her smart-pad connects to the restaurant computer, a holograph of a waiter at the door greets her with her name, asks her what she would like to drink and has it ordered, while she hangs her jacket on the automatic coat hanger coming out of the closet. The hook reacts to her reservation number, and also automatically pops out of the closet when she leaves. At that point the smart pad also transfers info on her food preferences and allergies to the restaurant computer, which allows the restaurant to offer her a special customized menu.

THE RING: Zula wears a ring that contains information on some of her basic preferences, likes and dislikes, merital status etc. The information can be changed and updated via the SMART-PAD, in common practice the INFO-JEWLERY is a practical way to share basic info with people you meet, either by shaking hands with them, hugging, or greeting.
She approaches the table greets and shakes hands with the client. Her ring and his wristwatch exchange basic info about eachother via a chip built into the ear where the info is exchanged via sound. Now she knows he doesn't like to be interrupted while speaking, that he likes to laugh, that long silences make him uncomfortable etc., so knowing that makes it easier for her to interact with him.

THE SMART-TABLE: Is a normal table with an inbuilt smart technology that is a regular thing serially being built into furniture and various surfaces in public spaces. The restaurant table in particular is a touch screen has a holographic projector built in, is an advanced computer, also enables users to project images for virtual retinal display.
Zula sits down, the drink she ordered at the door is already waiting for her on the table, that displays the menu the restaurant suggests for her according to the preferences her smart pad communicated to the restaurant computer. She makes her choice by touching the name of the food in the list displayed on the table.
While waiting for their food the client and Zula discuss business. The client shows her what sort of ideas he had in mind. His smart pad communicates the information and images to the table that then projects them onto Zula's retina so they don't disturb other guests at the restaurant. Zula looks at the material, and reads quickly to the clients notes and then uses the same way to show the client the results of her work, also what she had in mind for him, the plans and strategies, that they then discuss.
She also sends him the files she prepared for him using the voice manipulated file sender application on her smart-pad.
In the meantime their food arrives, also the new drinks as the table weighed the glasses and reported to the restaurant computer they were empty. To confirm a new drink coming Zula klicked the table while the client voice confirmed, and changed the order from having a glas of water before, to wanting a glass of red wine now.

THE CUTLERY:
The cutlery the restaurant uses is specific for that restaurant. It has a a chip built in, so that if you arrange it on your plate in a certain manner it can either mean you are finished eating, you wish to have more, or you want the waiter to come. The table then reads the position of the cutlery and forwards the message to the restaurant computer.
When finished eating, Zula places the cuttlery according to the instructions displayed on the table, as the table can detect by the wiught of the plate her plate is empty. She chooses to place it so as to tell the restaurant she would like to have a bill, that is then projected onto her retina. She pays for the mealvia her smart-pad confirming the payment by saying yes.
The client and Zula both are in a hurry as the ne hour they took for the lunch is almost over, they both agree the meeting has been successful, that they will read up on the info and files they exchanged and continue working together, meeting further at a different occasion. At the exit the hooks with their coats slide out the closet, the holographic waiter wishes them a pleasant day and bids them goodbye. They leave.

Proces the Aroma

Marketing

The cost of one machine will be 300 euro’s. This is based on the price of a IPod.
What I found of information of retail value of a iPod:The retail value of the 30-gigabyte video iPod that the authors examined was $299. The most expensive component in it was the hard drive, which was manufactured by Toshiba and costs about $73. The next most costly components were the display module (about $20), the video/multimedia processor chip ($8) and the controller chip ($5). They estimated that the final assembly, done in China, cost only about $4 a unit.

Because The Aroma will not be so much different then a iPod. Infact the system/ software is easier. You don’t have allot of applications. Only the most important thing is that. You have to put the smell into the device. And that it has to come out. When it’s empty, you will have to replace it.But this isn’t a hard progress, and doesn’t cost allot of money. Because the technique is eassy.

For the wine bar their will have to be 20 Aroma’s (the machine). To make the wine bar a success. Because people will come in groups. Or different kind of small groups like couples, triples, etc.
Cost of wine arrangement inclusive with food and with the device.
3 glasses of wine in 1,5 our 12,50 Euros
7 glasses of wine in 2,5 ours 22,50 Euros
10 glasses of wine 4 ours 49,00 Euros
Sow if you have 20 people that take 10 glasses 980,00 Euros.

It’s an investment, and the wine bar will have not much extra costs thenther wine bars/ restaurant. You will have to see it, that somebody invest in a new stow.

Wine for dummies

Discovering How to Sniff a Glass of Wine
The process of tasting a wine - of systematically experiencing all the wine's attributes — involves three steps: Looking at it, smelling it, and, finally, tasting it. Before you explore the smelling ritual, know that a) you don't have to apply this procedure to every single wine you drink; b) you won't look foolish doing it, at least in the eyes of other wine lovers; and c) it's a great trick at parties to avoid talking with someone you don't like.

Swirl 'n' sniff
To get the most out of your wine sniffing, you swirl the wine in the glass first. Don't even think about swirling your wine if your glass is more than half full — you'll end up sloshing it everywhere.
Here's a closer look at how to swirl and sniff your wine:

1. Keep your glass on the table and rotate it three or four times so that the wine swirls around inside the glass and mixes with air.
As you swirl, the aromatic compounds in the wine vaporize so that you can smell them. Wine has so many of these compounds that whatever scent you detect probably isn't a figment of your imagination.

2. Quickly bring the glass to your nose, stick your nose right into the airspace of the glass where the aromas are captured, and smell the wine.
Try different techniques of sniffing. Some people like to take short, quick sniffs, while others like to inhale a deep whiff of the wine's smell. Keeping your mouth open a bit while you inhale can help you perceive aromas. (Some people even hold one nostril closed and smell with the other.)

3. Free-associate — think of what the aroma brings to mind.
Is the aroma fruity, woodsy, fresh, cooked, intense, light? Your nose tires quickly, but it recovers quickly, too. Wait just a moment and try again. Listen to your friends' comments and try to find the same things they find in the smell.

The point behind this whole ritual of swirling and sniffing is that what you smell should be pleasurable, maybe even fascinating, and that you should have fun in the process.
Keep these pointers in mind as you sniff around:
Don't wear a strong scent; it will compete with the smell of the wine.
Don't knock yourself out smelling a wine when there are strong food aromas around. The tomatoes you smell in the wine could really be the tomato in someone's pasta sauce.
Become a smeller. When it comes to smelling wine, many people are concerned that they aren't able to detect as many aromas as they think they should. Train your nose by smelling every ingredient when you cook, the foods you eat, the fresh fruits and vegetables at the market, and even the smells of your environment — like leather, wet earth, fresh road tar, grass, your wet dog, shoe polish, everything. Stuff your mental database with smells so that you'll have aroma memories at your disposal when you need to draw on them.
Smelling wine is really just a matter of practice and attention. If you start to pay more attention to smells in your normal activities, you'll get better at smelling wine.

Lingo to know
With poetic license typical of wine tasters, someone once dubbed the smell of a wine its nose — and the expression took hold. If someone says that a wine has a huge nose, he means that the wine has a very strong smell. If the wine enthusiast detects lemon in the nose or on the nose, she means that the wine smells a bit like lemons.
In fact, most wine tasters rarely use the word smell to describe how a wine smells because the word smell (like the word odor) has negative connotations. Instead, wine tasters talk about the wine's nose or aroma. Sometimes they use the word bouquet, although that word is falling out of fashion.

Just as a wine taster might use the term nose for the smell of a wine, he might use the word palate in referring to the taste of a wine. A wine's palate is the overall impression the wine gives in your mouth, or any isolated aspect of the wine's taste, as in "This wine has a harmonious palate," or "The palate of this wine is a bit acidic." When a wine taster says that she finds raspberries on the palate, he means that the wine has the flavour of raspberries.

example of wine smelling

This is a example, what people with a strong wine knowledge do, to learn the different kind of smells in wine. Sow they can recognised it later. When theire tasting wine blind. Or for in a restaurant.

Examples Wine Tasting

Target Group

Because this is a hole new concept, the Younger target fits this the best. For more then one reason. More and more younger people starting their interests for wine. And getting some knowledge about it. But mostly their exploring with wine. Also the wine bars are getting more popular along this generation. But they don’t use the following order: Look, Swirl, Smell, Taste it and spit it out. No they drink it. And finally they do it more fore the drinking then exploring the wine. Sow this target group has to be a little bit more serious. But it is still a night out. A night of fun when you come to the wine bar. And when you found your smell you have the possibility to drink. To make the concept more interesting the device has to be modern, it has to go with time and with young people. So the device is high technical. With touch screen for example. You can compare the device wit a ipod. It has to intrigue the target group. The young generation wants’ more technology, the more the better it is.

A group within the younger generation are the wine lovers. A person with perfect wine knowledge, smells wine blind and they can tell witch kind of wine it is. This is a good way to practise for those how has wine as their hobby.

At least is it for people how like to experience. How are dared to try something new and different. It’s a night out, like the movies. Or instead of usual bar.

visualization The Aroma Wheel

Aroma Wheel

These will be the catagories you can choose for the divice - The Aroma

research - Why we smell wine by Jon Bonné

Swirling and sniffing are crucial, perhaps the most crucial, parts of evaluating wine.

We swirl wine to expose the actual liquid to the air, to run it up the sides of the glass and to get an extra look at its color. The drops, or tears, that trickle back down tell lots about alcohol content. The color of the wine, both when still and when swirled, gives hints to its density, the type and quality of the grape and the condition of the wine. New wine often has brighter hues than older wine.

Plus, some wine — particularly red wine — needs to oxidize slightly when opened. If it has been properly stored, little oxygen will have reached it. As wines age, they need air to help fully release their aromas and flavors. Swirling helps.

Why smell? A wine's real charm can be found in its scent. Here you can discern a wine's primary and secondary aromas. All those frou-frou descriptions about scents of huckleberries and roses? That's how we detect many of them. Smelling offers a preview of what you might taste, not just then, but also if you let the wine sit for a while and open up.

Indeed, smell and taste have been intricately linked in the brain, and much of the taste of wine (or food) is lost without the smell. Don't believe me? Try holding your nose and swishing some wine in your mouth. Then try it without holding your nose. See the difference.

Scent also helps detect if a wine is spoiled. If you're smelling damp cardboard or gym socks, there may be cork taint, the presence of a destructive little compound called trichloroanisole (TCA). That's what we mean when we say a wine is "corked."

There's lots more — books full, in fact — on why all these rituals are not just wine snobs showing off. Traditionally, in a restaurant, you're usually checking for any faults, not whether a wine is to your taste. (That should have been resolved when you ordered it.) You're figuring out whether to start drinking it immediately, or whether to ask for a decanter, which helps aerate it and filters out sediment in older wines.

Concept The Aroma

The concept for the Crosslab smell-life-technology. Is that their is a wine smelling bar in stead of a wine tasting bar (wijnproeverij in Dutch).

Here people can smell different kind of wines with a machine. You enter in to the machine witch flavour you want or like. For example woody, fruity, floral, spicy, etc. It also can be more then one. Or you do everything separately. That is your own choice.

With these choices, you have to make choices within these categories. From these choices, their well be a list of possibilities. These possibility you can smell. These options witch you can choose out of it, its based on the reel aroma wheel for wine. To smell your choice you press the button smell. And the smell will come out of this machine. The swirling and other techniques you normally have to do before you smell the wine, is included in the smell.

The smell will be in small kinds of tubes, that will be in the device. The idea behind it, is that it has the concept of sample perfume’s. But then in tubes. The smell will come out if you press the smell button. This will not come out, same as the sample perfumes but like a aroma. But it comes back as the same idea.

You try different kind of possibility’s and of different kind of brands. When you decided your smell, you will have the glass of wine. This way you will get your perfect taste of wine. Instead hearing people talk about wine. You discover different kind of wines. This combines with your own prefer interests. Your knowledge of wine will also rise. Because you yourself will experience wine.

Every wine has different kinds of smell, what is called Aroma. People that are for miller with tasting wine. Prefer calling a wine’s nose or aroma instead of smell. This is because the word smell has a negative connation.

The device will adjust on the seasons. Because in the winter you want for example a stronger red wine. And in the summer a light, fruity white wine.

Smell is a very important attribute of drinking wine. It’s a preview of what you will get. That’s why I think the Aroma is good device.

De vizualisatie van de Eno tail

Vizualisatie Eerste stap

De eerste stap

Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages;
Tails, by their very presence, will make the wearer stand out, which can be a advantage in many social situations (looking for a partner or (some) jobs, traffic, etc)Provided a suitable mapping is used they may be able to indicate emotions the wearer finds hard to verbalise (the very existence of professional poets and song-writers implies that this is often found hard).

As a fashion-accessory it implies a desire to communicate, something that isn't found in many other such devices. In fact it could be argued that many -if not most- hinder this, for example by making the wearer harder to approach (as in earbuds) harder to read emotionally (for example sunglasses) or even appear aloof (various more expensive products). Unlike other products aimed at communication (like for example smart-phones) there is no need for the "audience" of the tail to own one as well to benefit from it.

The emphasis on involuntary honesty might well lead to tail-wearers to be perceived as more dependable, which could have social benefits.The tail, after some practice, could be used to balance the user (for example in activities like skating).

The tail might be used for simple tasks, like pushing buttons, when one's hands are full. This kind of utility might include sexual activity. While this might sound far-fetched at first-sight the authors suspect that some people might find the concept of a extra source of stimulation that also doubles as a unambiguous feedback mechanism on the received stimulation (tail-based or more traditional) will appeal to certain target audiences.

The tail might be able to comfort the user, in a way much like crossing one's arms would, either for literal heat or as a way to socially shield one's body. It might also be used to do the same for others, again like a arm.

Disadvantages
Tails, as a new sort of "limb", will likely demand new models of clothes, further diversifying that market in a way that will likely lead to price increases. The same may hold true for furniture, like seats, that may become unsuitable for wearers of tails. Of course this might also be deemed a positive factor by early adaptors to those markets.

In some situations, like rush-hour in public transport, the space taken up by the tail may in itself be a undesirable factor.

involuntary emotional expressions might lead to undesirable side-effects.Examples of this could include workers in public positions who aren't expected to show emotions like impatience or even disgust with customers, patients and the like. In the most extreme case this could break political careers, relationships and other social contracts, where it is traditionally important to "keep up appearances". This could lead to the "showing of tails" becoming a taboo subject, much like the showing of legs, necks, breasts and genitals is in many cultures. It should be noted that the way in which some of those parts of the body can involuntarily display feelings (at least of certain kinds) might have been a part in their public display having become taboo. This could be mitigated to a large degree by new models -and types- of clothing and jewellery.

A device like this, especially initially, would come with a hefty price-tag, putting it out of range of large sections of the population. This factor, combined with the above-mentioned possible advantages in employment of tail-wearers could theoretically lead to a more class-based society.

The implantation of technological devices, especially ones attached to the (central) nervous system would come with potentially serious health-risks. Extraordinary care would need to be taken to avoid problems like infection, disabilities and indeed serious communication issues should the device be unsuccessfully implanted or malfunction.

Examples of tails

These video's where an inspiration for us. And it's a possibility for the way our tail could work.

It's not about whe think the video's ar so good, but this is a good way how to show the way the tail of a cat moves

a tail that goes in and out of the bottom is a good idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V652GFNNRqY&feature=relate

Look the wat the tail moves:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ62nD9F__k

Even from the movie Avatar, is a real good example for our concept. the tail, attached it's self to everything. it's a part of living for them. it's connecting to their feelings and their environment.
it's a shame i couldn't found other pictures. you will just have to see the movie.

Concept Eno Tail

For our concept we want to create an "EMO" tail attached to the lower back. It moves and reacts to our behavior and feelings.It is an extension of our body that reveals how we feel in certain situations, but in a more obvious way than our usual body behaviour does. The goal is to prevent us from hiding our feelings and affections towards other people and various social situations we find ourselves in. we feel we live in a society where showing feelings has become a controlled behaviour and eventhough science claims 90% of our interaction still consists of body language, we believe that the 10% made of spoken communication make up for the bigger and more cinvincing part of the interaction. An "EMO" tail would be an obvious signal, something we would not be able to control or hide, so a very obvious manifestation.As we think it would improve our emotional and social interaction it would with a big probability also cause us a lot of problems, confront us with situations we would usually try to avoid or find embarrasing.

The tail would stretch down to our feet when in a "sleeping" mode and move simmilar to the way the tail of cats and dogs does. It moves on its own. You cannot control it as it is like the rest of our body language a subconscious manifestation. It doesn’t work like we human, how we can control with moving our body. Like our hands, legs, arm, lips, etc. It will move on our impulses and the tail reacts to it. For example like blushing. Because women and men react differently there will be a tail for men and one for a female.

Thing that the tail for example can do, is that it glows from lightly till hard bright light but also a twinkle light at the top (like the finger of E.T.).That it goes up (erect), it has warmth and heath, it can shake & vibrate and its retract, it can come in and out sow you have the possibility to hide it.

A possibility the tail would like is with silicon combine with technology.

technische les

Hierbij wat foto's uit de lessen. waarnaar we gingen kijken. Hoe het technische gedeelte werkt.
De + kanten moesten verbonden worden aan de + kant. en de - aan de min kant van de batterij en de lampjes (ledjes).
Bij de ledjes was de korte kant de min kant en de lange kant de + kant. Bij de batterij was de boven kant de + kant en de onderkant de - kant.
De chiphouder stond centraal, hieruit moesten alle draden goed lopen. naar de batterij en de ledjes.

Al om al, was het heel ingewikkeld om de draden goed te laten verlopen naar de bronnen. En wegens de onderdelen zo klein waren, was het een heel gepriel!

MULTIPLEX Transnatural

Dit is een expositie over culturele technologie in het Trouw Amsterdam gebouw.
Het is een confrontatie met een scheiding tussen natuur en technologie. En wat dat heeft opgeleverd. Hierin is kunst, design en wetenschap een nieuwe werkelijkheid gecreëerd heeft.
Het is een proces waar men deel uit maakt, het beïnvloedt ons leven steeds meer.

We kunnen tegenwoordig niet meer zonder de technologie maar we kunnen ook niet zonder natuur. Daarom maakt deze expositie juist zo interessant. omdat zij dit samenvoegen, als dat het zo moet zijn. Deze twee eigenschappen zijn altijd elkaars tegenpolen geweest. En is er maatschappelijk te kort aan energie en aan grondstoffen. Maar nu helpt het elkaar.

Dit zie je bijvoorbeeld erg goed in de MudTub van Thomas Gerhardt. De modder is de organische interface waarbij je een computer bediend. Door met het modder te spelen. Een tegenovergesteld voorbeeld is de Bit fall door Julius Popp. De door het internet verzamelde informatie laat de Bit Fall een waterval stromen van water. Elke druppel is een pixel.
Bij deze twee voorbeelden zie je natuur, technologie en Design er goed samenkomen. Het is niet alleen dat het goed werkt, het is ook nog is erg mooi en interessant om naar te kijken.

Een wat minder goed voorbeeld vond ik de Prickbot door Ralf Schreiber. Wat een robot is die op zonne-energie werkt. Hij maakt rondjes en prikt willekeurig gaatjes in een blad van aluminium. Dit wordt geprojecteerd waarmee een zonnestelsel gecreëerd mee wordt. Dit vond ik niet indrukwekkend vergeleken met de overige projecten die er te zien waren. Het was voor mij niet iets vernieuwend. Wel was het idee erg leuk, en paste het wel goed binnen in het Trans natural.

Het was al om al zeker de moeite waard om gezien te hebben.