No Name Design Masterpieces

interesting article by Wired

Anti-Counterfeiting Dots

by Quantum Materials Corporation
3d printing "quantum" dots for anti counterfeiting

Shape Shifting Design...evolution of design

Want to know the future?
Watch the movies it seems is the answer.
Shape shifting design, from 3d printing to 4d printing to self assemblies and shape shifting objects...Exciting!

Why companies need to embrace design (i thought we were beyond that point...good to read nonetheless)

by Ian Callum, Design Director at Jaguar
"For any car company, if it doesn’t have design, or it doesn’t look right, or doesn’t feel right, it won’t sell – it’s that simple."

pulling CO2 out of the air

addressing CO2 head on, at the point where we can no longer prevent it from getting in the air, a brute force tactic to pull it out of the air directly by Carbon Engineering, a firm in Canada.

Keon V1, holds your key when you exercise

Get one here!

Softwheel...shock absorbing wheel!

designed by Gilad Wolf

more at Wired

Micro Robots by SRI International...Amazing

fast, accurate and can build things. at scale, their speed is just under Mach 1 for a human...whoa...

Gravity Sketch Drawing Pad by Oluwaseyi Sosanya...Drawing in 3D

more via Dezeen

The Illum, by Lytro...Want

Introducing: Keon V1, a ring for your key(s)

My latest patent pending design!

You know when you ____________ and just have to carry a 1 key (or 2)?
That's what Keon V1 is for!
available at ObjectTheory.net, my store at Shapeways.
Great for running, hiking, surfing, skate boarding...etc.


Check it out!

NASA z-1 and z-2 suits...seriously? my gut reaction...

Considering the technology that these contain, and the "the chance to make a suit with a look unlike any suit ever built before." They blew it. First off, the congratulations though. To get this to a reality is no small feat, I can't imagine the technical difficulties and resolutions that had to occur in order for the engineers and designers to get this to come to fruition. With that though, there was also a serious opportunity to blow people away, to amaze them visually, to MATCH the technical ingenuity that they had accomplished. Instead, this looks like a poor rendition of what a beginning student thinks a space suit should look like. Look at the z-1. Where did you get your inspiration from? The color palette? Buzz Lightyear?!! Also look at z-2, and the options you can 'vote' for. Like the suit itself, it looks lazy. It looks like they asked a layman to come up with 3 graphics for a space suit. Oh, and the layman they ask has no graphic or design sense or education. Sorry to be so harsh NASA, but damnit, you had an AMAZING opportunity here. Instead you are showing us this less than average design, and telling us how amazing it is. Sure, technically yes, but goodness, our eyes and hearts don't lie. Next time, or maybe soon, get a concept designer or kick ass industrial designer involved, someone like Scott Robertson.

This is further reason why STEM needs to become STEAM. When you take art/visual out of the tech, you take out the way people interact with the technology. As amazing as any developed technology is, if it poorly interacts with people it will run into difficulty. This is why windows copied mac, CGI and robots that try to be too human freak us out, old space suits rocked and these new suits sputter(they are less than appealing, no matter how much you market and tout them).

Take a page from the COSMOS playbook, in addition to the amazing tech/content/subject matter, you HAVE TO present it in a visually stunning way.Z-1, inspired by buzz lightyear?

Z-2, something at the Ymca?

A step towards ‘programmable materials’ "Could change the world of mechanics forever"

via kurzweilai.net
towards materials that can change shape. amazing.

In this instance it's used to change the aluminum bar's thickness, this would affect it's vibration dampening abilities. Small step, huge implications.

The Objectual Series by Hyungkoo Lee

amazing

Silk as material for screws...for surgery...read on

via Popsci. Less stress on bones, dissolves over time...more at Popsci site.

Hoverboard! (hopefully....soon)

Hoverboard! Sure looks fun...

...and it was a prank by funny or die....

Lockheed Martin, Speaking of the future, Advanced Aeronautics...new directions, and the value of research

...the true value of research is not in the answer you get that you know you were looking for, but in the answer you find that you didn't know to look for."
Research, inherently a journey, a blind journey as it seems, where you're led by bread crumbs of tantalizing possibilities.
Research, looking for and finding things you didn't know to look for when you began the journey.

Harmon Kardon, Aura Speakers

via Popsci, very lust worthy

This is Nothing

via fastco

MX3D, 3d printing metal...supportless, multi axis 3d printing