Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Apple Watch
My first impression yesterday was not an instantaneous amazement, day later
I think it's growing on me. More here.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Friday, August 8, 2014
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Synthetic "leaf" that produces oxygen
Julian Melchiorri, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, claims to have developed a silk leaf that could create oxygen.
Here we go, beyond obvious physical form into the inner workings/biologically inspired "objects". Glimpse of the future of design?
Article here.
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Makeup/Fashion to battle facial recognition software
A great project by CVDazzle
in our surveilance society, how can one remain anonymous?
hair and makeup can help.
in our surveilance society, how can one remain anonymous?
hair and makeup can help.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
NASA has released FREE 3d printable files of satellites, asteroids and other space goodness!!
NASA has released 3d printable files (though unsure of printability, they are only scaled) of various moon surfaces, asteroids, satellites and radars...check it out! Pretty amazing! Here.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
iPhone 6, Sapphire Glass...Impressive!
how do these "leaks" happen? how ever it occurs, the performance of the iPhone 6's face glass, with the sapphire glass looks pretty amazing.
Monday, July 7, 2014
Thursday, July 3, 2014
AutoDesk buys The Living...what this means
The Living is a design studio headed by David Benjamin, their work is often generated by algorithms mimicking biology. via ArchDaily
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Shark Deterrent wet suit by Hamish Jolly
designed by understanding how shark vision works...brilliant
MORE HERE
MORE HERE
Monday, June 30, 2014
Anti-Counterfeiting Dots
by Quantum Materials Corporation
3d printing "quantum" dots for anti counterfeiting
3d printing "quantum" dots for anti counterfeiting
Friday, June 13, 2014
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!
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
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."
Sunday, May 25, 2014
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.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Friday, April 25, 2014
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...
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Friday, April 18, 2014
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!
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!
Saturday, March 29, 2014
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?
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?
Thursday, March 13, 2014
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.
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.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Hoverboard! (hopefully....soon)
Hoverboard! Sure looks fun...
...and it was a prank by funny or die....
Friday, February 28, 2014
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.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
On Being Creative by Ira Glass
Great advice for any designer, artist or entrepreneur or athlete...for anyone trying to learn ANY skill.
Additive Robofacturing
Robot construction + additive manufacturing, from the minds at Harvard school of engineering and applied sciences, inspired by termites, lead by Radhika Nagpal and Fred Kavli.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Stronger than steel, lighter than water...3d printed microtrusses
Jens Bauer and his team at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have created a 3d printed material that is stronger than steel and lighter than water. More here.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Friday, January 10, 2014
Internet of Things
It was a big theme at 2012 CES and no different in this year's, 2013 CES as well. John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, gave it the name of the Internet of Everthing...not just things. So, the future, direction, the wind, it's definitely clear. How it will play out? Who knows. The point? What's exciting? To me, it means things will become alive. Objects won't just sit there, they will be reporters unto the world, in ways that we can't/don't quite understand as of yet. But, there are some very interesting indications/developments/products that are NOW showing us what the potential will be. And who else than Kickstarter to help show us. Here's one that was released back in 2012, (still amazing to me) Twine.
and here's a site, appropriately enough, called IOT world (internet of things world).
and here's a site, appropriately enough, called IOT world (internet of things world).
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Happy New Year!
Happy 2014! Thanks for taking interest in the things I post, I hope they're helpful and pique your interest in the stuff around us. I hope this year is the best yet for you and many many more!
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