I can’t believe I won the red dot design concept award for the Looking Glass concept!! (I added some photos of the awarding ceremony on my Flickr.)
First of all, let me thank Radhika Seth (for everything), Mika Ueno and *momoc (for beautiful photos), Takashi Yamada (for first picking up and naming this gadget), Regina Teh (for inviting me for the competition) and my family (for letting me keep doing this crazy hobby).
This is really exciting for me because it’s the first award I won since I became a designer.
I added some new images and fixed a few old ones.
Dragging stuff like a building floor to see its floor map would be useful and fun.
And here’s the presentation sheet I submitted to the red dot.
I also appreciate all the support I’ve got from the readers and magazine/newspaper editors who wrote articles of this gadget.
I’m planning to attend the award ceremony on November 24th in Singapore, so anyone who happens to be there, please talk to me. I’ll post some photos on my Flickr if I can shoot good ones there. And of course I’ll keep twitting in Singapore, too.
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Wow! Congratulations! You deserve a lot more recognition.
Awesome! And so justified! Congratulations!
Congratulations !!! very well deserved !!!
Awesome! I totally agree with the others that you so totally deserved the award! Your designs are awesome!
Need someone to take you around Singapore when you are here?
Congratulations!
Hi Mac,
We spoke before, do you remember me? Anyways a big congratulations on the win, you deserve it!
I will also likely be there, please email me at dt@designsojourn.com so that we can plan to meet up and a drink perhaps?
Talk soon.
dt
It’s about time yo win something! Congratulations
Truely awesome bit of kit!
Wow, congratulations Mac! If this doesn’t kickstart your professional career, I don’t know what will!
The improvements in pattern recognition and molecular nanotechnology (the end point of miniaturisation) that will make augmented reality devices like yours possible, will inevitably make them obsolete soon afterwards. When you find these in the bargain bin at your local supermarket, you can be sure that 200 dollars will buy you something even more awesome!
Let’s say a handheld device held at 30 cm from your face occupies around one third of the surface of your retina. That leaves two thirds stuck with sensing boring old ‘real’ reality, even though probably the most part of your visual cortex is processing virtual reality because you are concentrating on the device. Glasses, and especially contact lenses with retinal lasers (spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens), allow you to devote your whole visual cortex to augmented reality.
But why stop at just vision (and hearing, if you use earplugs)? Nanobots attached to every sensory neuron in your body could control the transmission of all kinds of information, allowing you to replace every real sensation (i.e. sight, sound, taste, smell and the somatic senses) by a virtual simulation. We might even be able to process completely new sensations which our bodies are not equipped to sense.
Have you heard of Raymond Kurzweil (www.kurzweilai.net)? A futurist like yourself can’t afford to ignore his ‘law of accelerating returns’.
Congratulations, it’s great that all your efforts are rewarded in such a way
Dieter Josten, thank you so much!!!
This is a brilliant idea. I particularly love text scanner and search. Hopefully some day we are going to see this live.
You deserved it!!
Keep it up, the world needs people like you.
We have translated and have published for our readers. I hope it it will be interesting will get acquainted with you. (http://future.erpnews.ru/doc8.html)
Thanks!
Alex, thank you very much!
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