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A Little Window to History
BlueAnt Digital Intelligence and KHOJ International Artist Association recently came together to create a project called 1 Square Augmented Mile (1SAM) in Khirkee, Delhi. A cross between a site-specific art treasure trove, virtual reality and community based social network, 1SAM caught our attention for the way in which it melded art and technology, making augmented ...
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Conspiracy Theories
Let’s for a moment forget the love-hate relationship the world at large and London in general has with Wolf-Olins London 2012 Olympic logo and consider this: last week the Iranian government threatened to boycott the Olympics if the official logo was not replaced by something less offensive. This logo it claims, flies in the face ...
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The Dictionary of the Future
When I was in the fourth grade, I would imagine that my teacher was writing the class notes in a different language, and that I was reading and processing it as English (yes, I had a runaway imagination). During a semester as an exchange student in Milan, I dearly wished that I had this power. ...
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Amar Chitra Katha for iPhone
I found out yesterday that our beloved Amar Chitra Katha comics are now available as iPhone apps! Talk about going digital! Amar Chitra Katha comics for iPhones
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Google’s Priority Inbox Tutorial
The basis of most good design is that it makes something bad better and something difficult easier. This couldn’t be more true for information design. New technologies depend largely on how well they can be understood by early adopters and with their new “Priority Inbox”, Google has gone a step ahead by creating a tutorial ...
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Epic: The First Indian Browser
I’m writing this post in Epic, the first internet browser that claims to be made by Indians, for Indians. I wasn’t entirely happy with the overtly nationalistic tone of that, but of course I couldn’t resist downloading the browser. Created by Bangalore based IT start-up Hidden Reflex, Epic is based on the open-source Firefox platform. ...