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Car. Nudge.

29 Nov 2012
In: Future Perfect
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The practice of using private parking spaces and leaving the handbreak off – to enable the attendant to get cars in and out. (a similar …
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Location Shifting

08 Oct 2012
In: Design Inspiration, San Francisco
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Built-in redundancy for this ZipCar door unlocking: through the ZipCar card; mobile phone app; and via remote unlock (when cellular coverage/battery, and broken screen allow).
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Brand, Card

28 Jul 2011
In: Brighton, Design Inspiration
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The loop back from digital to physical.
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Contaminates

22 Nov 2010
In: Daikanyama, Design Inspiration
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The key fob for the Llove Hotel includes a USB drive. In a world of viruses and other contaminants, and in the context of a …
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Car (Key) Hacks

Visitors to China wanting to duplicate a lost car key (or interested in knowing how easy it is to remotely steal someone else’s key) should …
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Park Circles

Sign for Russel Square park includes a couple of dozen circles but no annotation of their meaning. Suggestions?
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Keyholes as Entry Point to the System

10 Feb 2007
In: Future Perfect, Geneva
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But what functionality does the key hole represent? And what is the cost of finding out? The way in which an object is inserted into another …
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Toungue / Key

01 Sep 2005
In: Design Inspiration, Tampere
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The human ability to see faces in everyday objects is well documented. Admittedly this is a little Domokunesque, but face-like none the less. I wonder …
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