Touch » infovis http://www.nearfield.org Interaction with RFID and NFC Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:41:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Early visualisations of cellular networks http://www.nearfield.org/2008/05/early-visualisations-of-cellular-networks http://www.nearfield.org/2008/05/early-visualisations-of-cellular-networks#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 12:30:09 +0000 Timo http://www.nearfield.org/?p=301 I happened to catch the American-centric documentary history of the mobile phone called The Cellphone Revolution yesterday.

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The most compelling content was the early visualisations of cellular networks, made by Motorola and AT&T at the time that they were trying to convince the FCC that mobile telephony was important.

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It also features rather nice footage and photos of early mobile phone prototypes from Motorola, that displayed many contemporary form factors such as sliders and flip-phones. Worth checking out that full article for a bit of emerging tech/design history.

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]]> http://www.nearfield.org/2008/05/early-visualisations-of-cellular-networks/feed 0 Magnetic Movie http://www.nearfield.org/2008/05/magnetic-movie http://www.nearfield.org/2008/05/magnetic-movie#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 17:29:43 +0000 Timo http://www.nearfield.org/?p=296 In the same vein as the Bubbles of Radio work from last year, Magnetic Movie is a film that explores visible and audible manifestations of radio fields. The film is by Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor and commissioned by Animate Projects that remains on the forefront of “exploring the relationship between art and animation”.

“Natural magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic, ever-changing geometries… Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?” The stills don’t do the pulsing, crackling, moving visuals justice, I highly recommend that you go and watch the film.

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