louise guay, president and founder of my virtual model, presented her company’s avatar-based fashion shopping and social networking system tuesday at the moda+tecnologia gathering at the ICA. on-line shopping for clothes is notoriously unsatisfying, especially if you care about fit and detail. americans only buy 8% of their clothes on-line, as compared to 41% of […]
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virtual fit
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all-in-one simple
i really like this new mp3 player design by no-nonsense electronics manufacturer evergreen – small and thin, it includes everything you need to charge and upload in a simple, visible package. when other ‘simple’ designs actually contain all sorts of crap just so you can charge them… via
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interknit
netGranny is a revolutionary service where consumers directly commission grandmothers in switzerland to custom-knit socks for them. it has the spirit of transparency of programs like dole’s organic labels, with the mass customization you would expect from local experts, all the while supporting elderly people to make an independent income. this is something i’d like […]
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touching robots
i feel honored to break this story: hayes raffle founder of zoob and inventor (along with my colleague amanda parkes) of topobo finally released his work on youtube – and it’s worth watching every movie. not just because i’m lucky enough to work with him, or because he’ll be a free agent in a few […]
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photovoltaic payback
with solar panels (once again) the craze, a lot of discussion goes into whether they are truly efficient and whether they do the environment any good. most solar cells require a lot of energy and materials to manufacture, and many do not produce much energy over the course of their lives. under optimal conditions (in […]
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edible cups
what’s better than composting dishes? eating them! amit zoran‘s coffee cups are made from baklava so you can eat them when you’re finished drinking the coffee. anna bullus‘ ‘one cup or two’ is made of sugar, so the coffee gets sweeter over time (some version have flavorings too). what if everything was edible? via
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mini-martians
few human artifacts have traveled beyond the earth’s gravity, and even fewer were designed to carry a message to those beyond. compared to the elegance of the messages included with the pioneer and voyager spacecraft, our latest extraterrestrial broadcast seems a little immature. on the other hand, it’s very very small. mark wadsworth and tom […]
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almost made in china
atelier van lieshout‘s ‘almost perfect’ is a chair that was drawn on a napkin and sent to china without further information. most of the detail was achieved by the chinese manufacturer, lending a sense of imperfection and the mystique of a knock-off to the finished product. on the opposite end is the incessant attention to […]
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