Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology

It’s important for technologists to understand this desire to have superhuman powers and extraordinary abilities,

GLANCEABLE INFORMATION LEADS TO BEHAVIOR CHANGE

My eureka moment came when I realized that I could express information not as movement in water or pinwheel blades, but as subtly changing colors.

An augmented mirror, however, with interactive capability, could enable you to see an identity that you are actualizing. A social capacity could let you share this self with others.

You won’t know when and if other people are accessing and referring to the same information that you are,

to be minimalist markers and become workday assistants?

The information the barometer had to offer could be ascertained with a quick look—it was glanceable. The device was polite, Zen-simple, and never intimidating. The object was dedicated to a single task of information delivery, located in one never-changing place in the house, quietly waiting to do its job. And it did so without the need for updates

We interact with screens 90 percent of our waking hours. The result is a colder, more isolated, less humane world. Perhaps it is more efficient, but we are less happy.

What possible services could signs provide besides static labels and directions? What can be done to augment signs so they cease