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Critical work at the intersection of
humanity and technology,
some are in the hands of millions
some still unfolding


Ongoing

IDE
Imagination Development Environment

MixHeard
Machined Mondegreens

FontGPT
Typeface Inspired by AI’s Inability to Render Letters




Archive

Amazon Alexa Look
AI Device for Fashion Advice

Liquid
Inter-Screen Fluid Interfaces

C-Lab
Confidential Moonshot Lab at Amazon HQ

EVCC
North American EV-Charging Consortium

MeMod
Modular Programming Toolkit for Everyday Objects

Aureal
Social-Audio AR Framework

Samay
Color-Changing Bacteria that Tells Time

Obake
2.5D Elastic Shape-Shifting Display

SuperShoes
Tickling Shoes for Urban Rediscovery

Super Central
Control Panel for Predictive Wanderings

icon
Wearable Telepresence Device

BeingThere
Embodied Learning across Distances

Cheers
Alcohol-Aware Strobing Ice Cubes that Respond to Music

RadicalKitchen
Projected AR for a Multi-Modal Kitchen

FlipIt
Age-Old Artifacts for Contemporary News Consumption

Aura
Digital Interactions with your Physical Aura

Nostalgia Room
What Was Your Life Like?

ThinkerToys
Converting E-Waste into Educational Fun Toys

Coucou
Bringing Digital Social Networks into the Real World

Lovotics
Organic Multi-Modal Pet Robot

Anuvada
Parallel Real-Time Translation into 56 Languages

tweet-a-fleur
Flower that Blooms or Droops if the World is Happy or Sad

Google Sets API
Unofficial API to Access Google Sets (RIP)

emoTweet
Machine-Generated Emotion-Paintings from Tweets

Lokshahi
Mobile Civic Tool for Rural Empowerment

SMS-CV
ICTD Service to Apply for Jobs over Text

Jellow
Emotional Communication Tool for Kids with CP

iFeel
Machine Ontology to Map Attributes to Emotions

Sensoscope
Optical Tools to Alter Perception Toward Reality

Automatic
Love Letter to Machines, Humans, Fabrication

inVisible
Fiber Optic Experiments with Invisibility

Musiq
Play an Instrument Without Knowing How to Play

M.O.D.
Synthetic Muscles On Demand

HairAPI
Programmable Hair Experiments

MediumX
Physical-Digital Tools for Geologists

Horizon
Hand Gesture Glove

Internet & Democracy
Mapping the Blogosphere to Visualize Public Opinion

D’Square
Systems for Design MOOC

KeedaFM
5 Mile Radius Analog Radio Station

GrassTouch
Pocket garden for anytime tranquility

LastOne
Paintings immortalizing forfeited desires (Lost)

SeedPuff
Plant seeds in cigarette filters





Like to observe. Like to make things. Trained in science. Self-taught in design. Work is never done only iterations are. Curious about most things. Thinking and doing are the only way. Like to meet new people. Like to meet new animals. In constant search for truth and beauty. Mind and hand are one. Mens et Manus. Nice to meet you. Nicer in person. Pronounced as there-ya dan.