NewsFountains is a new way of reading news instantly while drinking water from water fountains. The design merges the properties of water and digital information, enabling people to obtain the physical essence for our body and the digital nutrition for our mind simultaneously.

3. quench thirst, satisfy curiosity

4. scarcity of resources

5. circulates

13. Implementation PROJECTOR NEWS BUTTON COMPUTER

15. Vision Kiwi Project at Microsoft Incubation Education Team kids “feed” knowledge to digital pet in a virtual world In real world News Fountain Incense Sticks Chopsticks

16. Conclusion Dangling String sound “indicates” internet traffic Ambient E-mail Notification music “indicates” e-mail loads Music Bottles bottles “contain” music What is next? From “implication” to “explication”.