Sometimes it nice to have new ways to rapidly access and view content. With digital urban you can now choose the way you read the blog.
Pictured below is a ‘snapshot’ interface, providing access to the posts via a Polaroid style layout:
Courtesy of blogger we now have 5 styles to choose from and bookmark:
http://www.digitalurban.org/view/snapshot
http://www.digitalurban.org/view/timeslide (we like this one)
http://www.digitalurban.org/view/sidebar
Sometimes in a research lab you step back in awe at some of the research going on around you. The work from the team behind the new Simulacra blog from CASA is one of those moments, visualising the dynamic geography of the urban transport system:
At the moment we are looking into ways to mount 6 iPads in the CASA office, home of digital urban. As part of our ‘Analogies’ grant we are looking at creating a portable exhibition space of urban research. Building on our recent iPad work on QRator, in association with Digital Humanities, we are looking to create a conversation and twitter system linked to artefacts. However, in the case of Analogies, the artefacts are part of the urban system, looking at flows, networks, simulacra and simulation.
Our first test has been using the PadTab Tablet Mounting System and we are impressed. Using a press on mount it is possible to slide an iPad on and off the wall. In a closed, monitored office space it is a quick and easy solution, the movie below provides more details:
Security is of course an issue when you move to a more public space, but for a first look the PadTab is perfect for the office.
UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology is reopening on 15 March, allowing some of the rarest extinct animal specimens in the world to be displayed for the first time, but in contrast to the more traditional museum outlook, the new Grant has integrated iPads, QRCodes and twitter into the mix via a project known as QRator.
