The original prototype ‘Fickleduino’ built for DAT301, served as the basis for Temperamental.
The equipment was then used for other projects and was later completely rebuilt for Temperamental featuring a temperature sensor instead of a range finder and light sensor.
The prototype effectively demonstrates the core functionality of the device.
View the early site here.
View the early site here.
The elevator pitch is a quick 30-120 second pitch that would often be used by a entrepreneur to pitch to a potential investor to spark interest. It gets its name from the idea of opportunistically getting in an elevator with the person you want to talk to and pitching them the idea in the time it takes for them to reach their floor.
For Temperamental having done a 2 minute pitch I was interested in seeing how I could get across the idea behind it in around 30 seconds.
Hello, My name is Jo Redwood, I am an inventor and entrepreneur and would like to speak about my product Temperamental.
Temperamental is a small spherical toy that senses its environment and then complains about it on a small display, only by changing its surroundings you can make it stop complaining. If it’s above a certain temperature it complains of being too hot, below it and it complains about being too cold. Temperamental also acts like an indoor weather station that can stream live data over the web giving it a wide range of other potential uses. The website would allow owners to compete to create the right conditions for their Temperamental and share their score via social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.
The elevator pitch is a quick 30-120 second pitch that would often be used by a entrepreneur to pitch to a potential investor to spark interest. It gets its name from the idea of opportunistically getting in an elevator with the person you want to talk to and pitching them the idea in the time it takes for them to reach their floor.
For Temperamental having done a 2 minute pitch I was interested in seeing how I could get across the idea behind it in around 30 seconds.
Hello, My name is Jo Redwood, I am an inventor and entrepreneur and would like to speak about my product Temperamental.
Temperamental is a small spherical toy that senses its environment and then complains about it on a small display, only by changing its surroundings you can make it stop complaining. If it’s above a certain temperature it complains of being too hot, below it and it complains about being too cold. Temperamental also acts like an indoor weather station that can stream live data over the web giving it a wide range of other potential uses. The website would allow owners to compete to create the right conditions for their Temperamental and share their score via social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.
The way that humans interact with computers is constantly changing. It seems that this change is usually spurred on by advances in technology as opposed to changes in thinking. An example is the transition from the computer mouse to touch screen devices. The first mouse prototype was developed by Douglas Engelbart in 1963 and featured in his 1968 demonstration which has come to be known as ‘The Mother of All Demos’.
Later designs incorporated a ball with the wheels against it rather than the wheels directly contacting with the surface as in Engelbart’s design. Over time mechanical mice have been superseded by optical mice which make use of photodiodes to detect movement. With miniaturisation of computers themselves came laptops which made it necessary to integrate a small pointing device into them, to do this touch pads are used. With the PDAs and early tablet computers such as the Intel Web Tablet a stylus was used for pointing. With resistive and now capacitive touch screens users need only touch the screen to interact with a device. People can now use gestures giving a wider scope for control and making it more intuitive. With technology like Microsoft’s Kinect and Leap Motion, it is conceivable that touch screens may too become obsolete.
Throughout all of this development the basic idea of controlling a specific point in a virtual space and then carrying out an action based on what that area of screen represents. The clicking on an icon to start a program, the icon isn’t the program it is merely an image on a screen yet through interfaces we create these object based metaphors. To access something we want, we us in the case of a mouse an agent that represents our focus.
Rachel demonstrating the Kinect intergration.
Since the slides are not clearly visible in the video they are available here.
Since the slides are not clearly visible in the video they are available here.