“To design a system that tells the story of the news through the medium of light with which the user can interact to change the view”
 
Today many people, especially youngsters, just quickly scan the headlines of the newspaper, and then go off to whatever they have to do that day. They form an opinion on a little bit of information, which can lead to simple things like disagreements with people, and even heavier consequences.
The way the news is brought to the actual user, greatly influences the way the basic facts are picked up. The daily news goes through several filters and people, before the general public hears about it. This filtering colors the news, and can actually blur out the original fact. Not only the way an article in a newspaper is written, the articles next to it, the pictures around it, the headline used and even the fact that it is printed or not, define the coloring of the news as a whole. Therefore I tried to focus my attention during the project on bringing the news to the user as unfiltered as possible.
This is why I created project ‘newsflash’. The system projects several search terms the user can follow to start his news reading adventure. When a certain term is selected, the system juxtaposes 2 articles next to each other, and the user can decide which one is his or her truth. By wiping over an article it is removed, and another article from another newspaper on the same subject is displayed in its place. The user can browse between different news sources, different articles, and switch topics. By doing this, the system tries to provide the user a full 360 degree view on the news, instead of the single view a single newspaper can provide. The user can form a better image of the news, and will be better informed.
 

 
The prototype shown in the movie above, is a real working prototype. It runs on a flash CS3 engine, in combination with the Daylife API to fetch news stories from thousands of papers. The interface is projected on the interactive book surface that tracks the users movements.
This project was done as in Industrial Design Student Master project at the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Check out more of my work in my portfolio

 

In the world of 24-hour news channels, shrinking coverage and the rise of truthiness, Dipity aims to take the DayLife API and provide a broader context for the issues you care about. Leveraging the DayLife world and organized by Dipity on a map, timeline, list or flipbook.

Newsline gives you more than just the current hottest story, it gives you a comprehensive view of an issue with images, video and stories from trusted sources.

Want to compare the war in Iraq to the war in Afghanistan? Use Newsline to compare emerging stories and watch as existing stories evolve side by side. Got a blog post you're working on? Take your search from Newsline, select the view you want and drop it into your blog. Presto! you've now got something that's always pulling the most relevant news for the topic you care about and if you want you can add other sources to the mix as well.

Newsline. Get the whole picture.

NewsLine

email is still the least common denominator for devices, especially iphones, blackberries, cell phones, text pagers, PCs - and something you know how to use already with ease.

Our service emphasizes using email as a query tool for news. you can instantiate an account by sending an email w/ the recipient set to my_name_or_group_here@echoshare.com (substitute yours).

The email subject line supplies the news query - in an over-simplified command language. For instance, if the subject is 'create news ' + your search phrase. Then just hit send to your email. You'll get a reply email w/i seconds that has your related news articles formatted for easy reading.

As a bonus, all of your email queries are automatically saved and organized as your's - or your group's shared news and information archive. There are many additional features that complement news retrieval. Such as making your own news, using our email-to-Widget technologies, including creating portlets for photos,video, music, databases and google maps via email.

Folks - check out your folks is a people search engine powered by DayLife, Yahoo! Boss, Spock and Reuters.

http://8.17.168.50/folks

Browse through news on the world map. Powered by DayLife, Yahoo! Pipes, GeoRSS and Yahoo! Map.

http://8.17.168.50/newsmap/

Visualize how are the news-makers connected. The TopicWheel makes it really easy.

http://8.17.168.50/topicwheel/index.html (browse the Obama's wheel)

This vs. That is a fun site that lets you enter two terms and see which one has the most news exposure. The winning term will display with related news, images and web links.

DayPI Powered Sections:

• News: The winning term in recent news.
• Tally: The total number of results each term returns.

Yahoo! BOSS Powered Sections:

• Web: The winning term on the web.
• Images: Images tagged with the winning term.

World News Today -
A simple mashup to catch up on news around the planet. You can see news filtered by country. The size of the highlight is a rough measure of the number of news articles about the country in the last 24 hours.

Word of the Day [WOTD] is not your typical word-of-the-day that shows just a word and its definition.

WOTD goes beyond the definition and brings you news, quotes, word count, images
and web links relevant to the word of the day. Powered by DayPI and Yahoo! BOSS.

DayPI Powered Sections:

• News: The Word of the Day in recent news.
• Quotes: The Word of the Day in quotes.
• Word Count: The number of times the word of the day has appeared in recent news.

Yahoo! BOSS Powered Sections:

• Web: The Word of the Day on the web.
• Images: Images tagged with The Word Of The Day.

Other:

The actual word for the "Word of the Day" is from Yahoo! Education.

UFO Portal is an all in one UFO resource. UFO Portal harnesses the power of DayPI and Yahoo! BOSS to generate fresh on-topic content.

DayPI Powered Sections:

• UFO News: Recent UFO news. New articles are searched for daily. Older articles are archived in a searchable database.
• UFO Quotes: UFO related quotes from recent news articles.
• UFO Charts: Graphical charts plotting the number of times UFOs have been reported in news articles by year and month.

Yahoo! BOSS Powered Sections:

• UFO Gallery: Thousands of UFO related images, viewable through a pop-up or source.
• UFO Links: Huge links list.

Other:

• UFO Discussion: UFO related questions and answers, Powered by Yahoo! Answers.
• UFO Videos: Thousands of UFO related videos, viewable through a pop-up or source. Powered by Yahoo! Search Web Services.