Technology In The Workplace

Technology plays a huge role in the efficiency of any modern business. Empowering your office with power ready products will surely improve your productivity and workplace functionality. Knowing the benefits of a technologically advanced office and the key products that will help you bring your place of business into the modern world will put you ahead of the competition.

In today's world, anything with a screen is being mounted ergonomically in the workplace. The ability to adjust screens while simultaneously creating more work surface is just plain smart! Products like dual screen monitor arms are a great way to share what you've viewing with guests while increasing your own computing speed. Just swing the screen and guests can see what you see! Another key benefit of this technology is speed. Let's say for example you're writing a memo and using multiple websites for reference information. The modern technology applied in articulating monitor arms allows you to look at both simultaneously.

look for tablet mount solutions to be popping up more often then ever. With the popularity of products like the iPad, it's no surprise manufacturers like ESI Ergonomic Solutions have applied their monitor arm science to the world of tablets. Any high tech office furniture of the future is sure to have a variety of screens mounted for simplistic adjustment capabilities and ergonomic functionality.

Utilizing the latest technology in your conference room will ensure you're meetings run smoothly and professionally. The latest powered conference tables for sale provide the ability to plug any number of devices directly into the table surface without mess wires running all over the place. An optimized conference and boardroom area with full power capabilities is perhaps the best way to see modern office technology in use. Rest assured, you'll be seeing mobile TV cart and stands designed for flat screen monitor arms and simplified movement. No more bulky carts with huge televisions for your office!

While the latest electronics are being released to consumers, top office furniture manufacturers are in a preverbial arms race to discover the most effective ways to incorporate these products into the workplace. Those popular abbreviated terms like LED and LCD are showing up in furniture descriptions on a consistent basis. In addition, adding modularity to the workplace also incorporates smart technology that should not be overlooked by any modern business.

The latest modular workstations offer businesses the ability to reconfigure, grow, and adjust their office desks to meet their personalized needs. New and customizable casegoods furniture lines like the Global Zira Furniture collection offer a seemingly limitless selection of professional components to design incredible furniture configurations. The multi user workstations of the future will incorporate an open desking style pest portrayed in lines like this to promote team interaction and group collaborations.

To wrap things up, technology is going to improve your office. Before you know it you'll be working faster with far less effort. New products are being developed on a daily basis to ensure you have the most effective work day possible. Business owners will delight in the efficiency modern technology creates for their employees. Needless to say, the future is now!

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Book vs. E-Reader

For my birthday recently, I was given a Nook e-reader as a group gift from family. My initial response was surprise and delight. It was one of those things I would never have bought for myself, yet I'd been charmed by the commercials and thought having lots of books on one device was a great idea. My enthusiasm began to wane when the initial set-up process took me a couple of hours (why do wi-fi router manufacturers set a password in the factory that they don't pass on to customers?). When I finally managed to get online, I started looking into my buying options. There were lots of new releases to pick from and a few older options from my favorite authors. Magazines were also plentiful. But when I stepped away from the Nook and really thought through the consequences, it's usefulness to me became questionable. 

The truth is this: I already have a computer (at work and home) and an i-phone (curse those games!) that take up a considerable chunk of my time. In the last couple of years, I've developed frequent headaches from staring at a computer screen. Did I really want to add another one to my life? Though some books have bored me, I've never developed a headache from staring at the printed word. Besides that, shopping for new reading material would just be too easy with an e-reader. I knew that I would end up buying more books and magazines than I already do just because the result would be instantaneous. Good for Barnes & Noble, not so good for my budget. If out-of-print books were on the menu, I might have been more easily tempted. I recently discovered a copy of Yvonne de Bremond D'Ars' "In the Heart of Paris" in a box lot I won at a silent auction and have been absorbed in her engrossing tale of parceling out a house full of antiques to five very different nieces--not something I would come across on a Nook. 

Ultimately I decided to draw a line in the sand, and I drew it at the Nook. The technology wheel is going to keep turning at a breakneck pace and ever-new enticements are going to be put before us. No one will decide for us that enough is enough. It's up to us to decide which devices make our lives easier/better and which ones monopolize our time and energy at the expense of the things that matter to us in the long run. So my Nook is going back to the shop. No doubt I'll regret my decision at some point in the future--particularly when I'm travelling. But when I crack open a book at the end of the day and pick up where I left off, I won't for a minute wish I was staring at a brightly lit screen. Perhaps I'm setting back the concept of a paperless society. But when it comes to books, I can live with being a traditionalist.

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iPhone 4G color options coming your way

 iPhone 4G colors finally available....

For all of you who have wanted a white iphone for a long time, well today is the day you can have one. Or for that matter a red one, blue one, mustard colored, for you designers who insist on carying trendy colors as well as using them in your designs, or even a pink one, for all you ladies who like a feminine phone. Now its possible to change the base back metallic glass plating and the front glass LCD plating as well with these new do it yourself at home kits that come fully prepared and doing it is as easy as one, two, three. The kit comes with a rubber piece (used to pull up the current glass pieces and wedge the new ones in place, a couple tiny screw drivers to unscrew the tiny screws inside the phone that hold these pieces together, and really thats it. Its simple, easy, has very little change of you not being able to do it or mess up the phone, and they look very good on the phones and all electrical components are pre-connected.. Simply connect one small wire that already has a pre-done connector cable that simply fits nicely into the iphone ditch where it snuggles right into place. The entire process probably takes about ten minutes and you get a brand new exclusive Red, White, Mustard, blue, or pink iPhone, something unique and something very few people have...

These products are available through Avant Garde Home Furnishings electronics page:

Avant Garde Electronics

Individual links found below under each picture: 

  

    Mustard Colored iPhone color kit

 

iPhone Blue colored install kit

 

    iPhone Red colored install kit 

 

iPhone pink colored install kit

 

     iPhone white colored install kit 

For anyone that decides that they want to order one, due to the long wait list it takes 30 days to receive. Sorry there is nothing I can do about the waiting time. Its actually 60 days but due to my membership level I get it a little quicker.

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Gorilla Art: Theodore Watson

I first heard of Theodore Watson from Linda Fleming who teaches at CCAC and was one of the founders of Libre artist commune is Southern COlorado, the place where I was born, my middle name and the name of my company.  It was the summer the Democratic National Convention was in Denver COlorado and I wanted to go,  I had this idea to use projectors and to project highly erotic poetry onto buildings in very sterile places.  I told Linda about this and she said oh, Theodore Watson who is Beatie Wolf's brother who was at Libre's 40th birthday party that year has a program that will do that using a green lazer and projectors and it is mobile so you wont get busted.  This was highly appealing to me and she showed me Theodore's website and I have been amazed at the work he does. from the Knee deep project that is interactive and allows kids to stomp out a urban story, to the funky forest project that is also interactive, where kids make a shadow on a wall that grows into a tree and continues to grow as long as they water it with the virtual light water on the floor that they can dam and control through moving sandbars.  They must pick up the light and throw it on the tree and the second they stop watering the tree the tree begins to wither.  I think his work is brilliant and fascinating and wonderful. I am still desperate to get my hands on a green lazer and give it a go.  This is all from his website and is pretty amazing. 

2009Theodore Watson is an artist, designer and experimenter whose work is born out of the curiosity and excitement of designing experiences that come alive and invite people to play. Theodore’s work ranges from creating new tools for artistic expression, experimental musical systems, to immersive, interactive environments with full-body interaction. His recent work includes the Eyewriter, an eye controlled drawing tool, Graffiti Research Lab's Laser Tag, laser graffiti system and Funky Forest, an immersive interactive ecosystem for young children. Theodore works together with Zachary Lieberman and Arturo Castro on openFrameworks, which is an open source library for writing creative code in C++.

Theodore Watson's work has been shown at MoMA, Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, The Sundance Film Festival, Res Fest, REMF, Cinekid, Montevideo, OFFF, SHIFT, ICHIM, The Creators Series, Deitch Projects, Eyebeam, Pixel Gallery, Museum N8 Amsterdam. In 2010 the Eyewriter project won the Future Everything award and the Design of The Year award for the interactive category. 

Contact

Theodore Watson

contact me at: theo@ this website.

US Office: +1 617 959 5111 ( prefer email though )
Cambridge, MA
United States

Amsterdam Office: +31 64 367 3501
Damrak 70,
Amsterdam
Netherlands

Knee Deep 2009

Knee Deep is an interactive installation developed with Emily Gobeille of zanyparade, that invites children to jump in and explore unexpected worlds of different proportions with their feet. Stomping through a loose narrative that plays with ideas of scale, point of view and discovery of cause and effect, children gain a sense of perspective about how their actions relate to the natural systems of our world. Knee Deep allows children to see themselves and the world from seemingly impossible scales and provides a space for exploration and play where children can create their own rules and logic. The installation combines real-time greenscreening, computer vision and stomp detection.
Knee Deep was created for the 2009 Cinekid festival. Production of Knee Deep was made possible by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.

Knee Deep video

Film Museum - Augmented Sand Sculpture 2009

Portrait Machine 2009

Funky Forest Moomah Edition 2009

Terrarium 2008

Funky Forest 2007

Funky Forest installation at Singapore Art Museum  June 02 2010

Emily Gobeille and I just completed a new installation of Funky Forest for the Art Garden exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum. Its running from now until July 18th 2010.

Laser Tag 2007

Vinyl Workout 2006

Michel Gondry Exhibition 2006

Generative Graffiti 2006

Audio Space 2005

Daisies 2005

Ars Electronica Elevator 2004

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