ever since google began offering on-line apps we’ve know that soon every software and storage would be off-sourced, but it remains surprising that video editing is the next big application to hit the qVGA screen – not photo editing or page layout but the most processor-intensive application of them all. and why not? since many […]
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fragrant upcycling
since many people have shown interest in john habraken’s wobo beer bottle bricks and up-cyling in general, i thought i would bring up yet another example: my favorite architects’ (lot-ek) 1994 chromo-lamps, crafted from discarded detergent bottles found on the streets of new york. both the quasi-lamp (top) and omni-lamp (bottom) are painstakingly assembled by […]
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yellow spies
many color laser printers leave an invisible tracking code printed in yellow dots that encodes your printer’s serial number and the time of printing down to the minute! fortunately mako hill at the medialab’s computing culture group has started an action to protest this invisible surveillance. but now that EFF has provided an interface to […]
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hoverspy
honeywell’s micro air vehicle can hover in place, fly at 50 knots and be carried around in a backpack. finally, ‘hovering’ technology has arrived – albeit in purely evil form. via did
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design for humans
one of the concepts RAZR-designer marco susani expressed in the design intelligence conference that stuck with me for the past three years was ‘why do something with one hand when you can do it with two?‘ and so he designed a series of kitchen appliances with thin lips that forced a ceremonious handling rather than […]
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product anatomy
now that the craft of technical drawing has been replaced by computer-aided drafting, there’s something uniquely human about painstaking hand-drawn illustration, elevating it to an almost-art and imbuing the drawings with personality and worth they didn’t have before. these painstakingly rendered anatomical drawings of a furby are part of kelly heaton‘s work which culminated in […]
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rad viz
there are a lot of things we can’t see, and many of them we wouldn’t be able to understand even if we could ‘see’ them – especially when you need to see through something to understand densities, temperatures, radiation,or anything that varies along three (or more) dimensions. valery hronusov posted a series of add-ons to […]
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public sedations
these days truth seems to be at a disadvantage. of course, people who are concerned with reality are generally less convincing than spin doctors unafraid to lie openly for personal gain. but persuasion is always tricky: if you load down your audience with too many facts, they may get bored, and if you appeal to […]
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