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Trash Alert!, a Transnational Temps art project for your mobile

Trash Alert! will be a opensource Android App dedicated to the geolocation of micro garbage dumps all around you. Please support the project on Goteo the Spanish opensource crowdfunding website.

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A Walk Through Time, a “Walking” iphone app.

I am currently working on a mobile phone app project with Geoff Ainscow from Los Angeles. We study now a iphone app where each of your steps is one million years during a one mile walk tracing the 4,600 million year the evolution of life on earth. In 1997, at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, the Walk Through Time exhibit was created for the opening experience of a five day meeting involving 350 scientist from around the world. Every foot of the one mile walk represents one million years of the evolution of life on Earth. 95 color, illustrative panels, describing the state of life at that time were spaced at various intervals. Starting 4,600 million years ago, at the beginning of the solar system, you walk a mile before reaching the present day and realize that the last 1/10 of an inch represents the 10,000 years of our civilization. This exhibit has been shown in many cities and continues to travel around the world. A book was published in 1998.  Today, the Walk moves into the high tech age with the development of this iPhone app.

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As creative designer, the most important idea around the app is that you will have to walk for real to experience the 4,600 Millons years of evolution of life on earth. Each of your steps will be detected by the accelerometer and will move you forward 1 million years. We hope to  start the programming of the iphone app around October 2011.

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Un Alternate Reality Game, Safari Urbano

Hemos vuelto de un workshop “Safari Urbano” que hemos dado desde nuestro colectivo ecoartivista Transnational Temps en la facu de Bellas Artes de Poitiers en Francia, la caza ha sido buena !. Manejamos el workshop tanto en soporte papel y teléfono cómo en una versión potencial para móviles iphone y androide, desarrollo que podemos hacer perfectamente con plataformas abiertas de ARG. (alternate Reality Game)

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El Juego: Penetra en tu reserva y sigue las pistas de caza marcadas en el mapa, tienes 60 minutos para fotografiar con tu móvil las especies en via de extinción.

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Smartphone Audio Guide for museums

A novative simple audio guide explained in this audio comment

This Smartphone Audio Guide proposal for museums consist in a software designed to build easily audio guides, managing a set of bricks containing a audio and a picture related to a masterpiece.

More than a brick, the module is a segment of a wall and let users represent their exhibition space with each segment, moving them with the finger in the screen and building a architecture. This simple software let users build virtually the real space of the exhibition.

Finally, the visitors can use the application created by the museum and get information for the masterpiece they want. Rolling over each segment, we can see a fast preview of the painting, picture or whatever we want. Clicking on on it, a audio player appear on the screen and let the visitors listen to the audio guide.

A simple hyper-navigation mode, let the visitor have a preview of all the master pieces at the same time.

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Simimobile, a Transnational Temps art project for your mobile

Digital Jungle Simiomobile invites telecommunication companies to show leadership and commit to preserving biodiversity.

The Simiomobile kit is composed by one hardware modification module to custom the looking of the telephone and a software module with a set of applications. The Simiomobile user get acces to a series of extra services, related to the species you choose to sponsor, like reception of SMS text messages when news arises that’s relevant to the survival of the species, web access to your profile, and networking services for finding others with similar interests and other tools that insure communications between the users of the Digital Jungle like free messages within each animal sponsor group by bluetooth.

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Nokia is loosing the battle against the iphones, how could they escape from the defeat ?

Regarding to the evolution of the market of mobile phones and the big success of the iphone, it seems that Nokia is not finding a convincing way to preserve their pole position in the mobile phones market. We can suppose that Nokia will loose the leadership because the mobile phones are now small computers and Apple is building computers since the 70th. It can be one of the major reasons and that’s why Nokia starts to build computers this year, but this is not the “big” reason. Visiting the Nokia company web page, we can feel a sort of desire to offer new services and attract consumers with such “moblogging” services like ” OVI “. They have a specific section called ” Beta Labs ” and we can imagine they are preparing a super flexible mobile phone, soon arriving in the market, to be the new reference. But where is this device and their last contracts with Microsoft are really transmitting an idea of renewal ? But i think the problem is not really the software and the hardware, in fact the Symbian S60 firmware is a powerful operating system with a lot of features. The interface is perhaps not so intuitive than the iphone but we can do more or less the same stuff with a Nokia N97 and a iphone. Some specifications on various Nokia devices are better, like connecting your Nokia N95 8GB to a TV and a bluetooth keyboard to make your e.mails and blogs pictures and videos for example, two good features that the iphone can’t do at this moment. Basically the problem of Nokia company is the lack of creativity to make the difference with Apple. They can’t try to win the market in some terrains like selling online music, who can do it better than apple and itunes ? The salvation of Nokia is learning to do very well what Apple is doing very bad. The Achille’s heel from apple is their really bad relation with the environment, they don’t care about ecology and it is so evident. Who can explain how it is possible to integrate the batteries on the iphone in the way that you can’t replace it because it is fixed inside the device and no way to recycle millons of batteries. Another fact, it is a irony to see how Apple is calling their operating system with the name of endangered species like Tigers and Snow Leopards without helping the organizations working for the preservation of these endangered species. Are we prepared to explain to the children of our children why the majority of the species disappeared in the wild in a time-lapse of a few decades of a global economic happiness in the western world ?

Making what Apple doesn’t care, focusing on the preservation of earth.

It’s time to wake up and invite the companies to help to preserve life on earth. It is necessary to change the mechanism of the market and stop to virtualize the earth, stop green washing and act. And the mobile phone companies have a great paper to do here because the mobiles are building the digital network of tomorrow, soon we will stop to navigate “in” internet and will say that we are “inside” internet thanks to the intelligent devices like the interconnected mobile phones generating networks of information all around us. The telecommunication market has the power to generate consciousness through their products and reach the human networks using their devices. We have to ask to Apple, “can you explain why you use the image of a Snow Leopard to sell your last operating system when you do nothing to preserve the environment ?”. This is a good terrain for Nokia to make a better product than Apple, and they started to do it, giving precise information about the components of their mobile phones and the ways to recycle their devices. Nokia has to make various significative step forwards now and find a way to link people to their environment through a new set of telecommunication facilities making the bridge between the network of users and their environment. As Transnational Temps art collective, we made a mobile phone project called “Simiomobile” with the international organization PGS (Proyecto Gran Simio) working for the preservation of great apes. It is important to know that the gorillas, Orangutans and Bonobos are at few step to disappear from their natural environment. We proposed to create a suite of small mobile phones softwares for people to create communities of users and building virtual networks of species and at the same time collaborating for the preservation of the real species ( www.simiomobile.com ). If Nokia wants to continue to be a leader in the mobile phones market, they should create a new consumer attitude, helping to generate networks of consciousness around ecology, offering some “open minds” softwares to their community of users. I am looking around in the street, People are ready to receive such products.

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MINOS, knowledge strings for your mobile and your computer.

Minos

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Electro Aimants

Electro-Aimants is a software showing the flux of e.mail exchange between one user and his network. Based on the metaphore of magnets and their magnetic fields, more intense is a comunication with a user, closer is the contact from the user magnet. This visualization let people see how closed they are from their contacts.

Electro-Aimants is organizing your contacts through the groups created in the agenda, a interesting tool let you create a string of contacts and create a mailing list graphically. If you are sharing information with another user, you can login to the magnet with another ID and discover your friend’s network.

A “Stats” screen let you see your relation with your network in a single view.

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Transnational Temps “Earth Art Mobile”

In ecoartivismo.net, we are working in a new section called earth Art Mobile. We are starting a serie of works called urban safari catching species in the public space of the city and blogging them directly from our mobiles phones. The target is to work in situ and find interesting ways for ecoactivism to share information online very fast.