In early 2017, yiibu began an ambitious piece of work for a small group of Mozilla stakeholders. This project (which came to be known as Hopscotch by Firefox) was shelved in early 2018, but in the spirit of making the web a better place, we’d like to share some of…

In early 2017, we began an ambitious piece of work for a small group of Mozilla stakeholders. This project — which came to be known as Hopscotch by Firefox — was unfortunately shelved in early 2018. But in the spirit of making the web a better place, we’d like to…

From WeChat to Messenger and Slack, our future is rapidly being colonized by social networks that effectively mean to function as operating systems. If this is our future, we will need the web more than ever, but it — and they — will have to evolve. It’s easy to…

Yesterday I ran into TagMe, a toolkit by students of MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Group designed to “turn the personal environment into an extended communication interface”. …

Between 2000 and 2010, Bryan and I lived a somewhat nomadic lifestyle. We moved more than fifteen times, including stays of varying lengths in three continents, six countries, three Canadian provinces, and four cities in the UK. After five wonderful years in Scotland, we’ve recently moved once again! Moving to…

Spimes — “a location-aware, environment-aware, self-logging, self-documenting, uniquely identified object that flings off data about itself and its environment in great quantities”. — Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things We’re not quite there yet, but as a wise man once said — few things in our present or future are equally distributed…

For close to six months (slightly embarrassing ー_ー﹡) we tried in vain to locate an intermittently beeping thing in our apartment. …

A satirical promotional blurb for a product you never knew you might need. Inspired by this lovely gem of mid digital era nonsense: Doesn’t your family deserve, Titanium level piece of mind? We’ve all heard the stories. A happy family or bright future shattered by legal costs after an unfortunate humming incident. Don’t let it happen to you! …

The latest Disney Research creation is a robot that draws things in sand. BeachBot is kind of cute and generally harmless. You can imagine it lumbering along a Disney-owned resort regularly expelling cute characters, twee “Welcome!” messages and advertisements for the benefit of passersby. Thinking ahead a bit, it’s…