NewsFountains

&
Water
Information

for body, for mind
quench thirst, satisfy curiosity
scarcity of resources
circulates
takes the shape of the container or medium

properties
common
Merging Opportunity

Implementation
PROJECTOR
NEWS
BUTTON
COMPUTER

Vision

Represent abstractinformation inside materials of the physical world

(soul) Aristotle (body)
“The truly profound technologies are those that disappear.”
---Mark Weiser
“The truly profound interfaces are those that disappear.”
---me

Merge the physical world and digital world in a natural way

(direct) (common properties)
“Mismatching of abstract information with the physical world materials is like
assigning an integer into a computer memory space of string type, where you
need to create an extra linking function called ParseString(num).”
---me

Vision
Kiwi Project at Microsoft Incubation Education Team
kids “feed” knowledge to digital pet in a virtual world
In real world
News Fountain
Incense Sticks
Chopsticks

Conclusion
Dangling String sound “indicates” internet traffic
Ambient E-mail Notification music “indicates” e-mail loads
Music Bottles bottles “contain” music
What is next?
From “implication” to “explication”.