it’s everywhere: a chance we can replace the noisy, dangerous, dirty processes of production with biological growth. first germinating buildings, now clothing grown – actually fermented – from beer and wine, what next, electronics?
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spoiled spud, crack-proof egg & co
sensor wireless inc. makes replicas of products such as potatoes or eggs (left) and glass bottles (right) outfitted with sensors (probably accelerometers) so that manufacturers can track damage to the product along the assembly line in real-time on PDAs. i first learned about the smart spud ™ while visiting frito-lay, because the conveyor belts and […]
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lift-a-building
3 people die per day working construction in the US, most as a result of falls. why not design buildings so that no dangerous work is required of construction workers? when i was passing by this pavilion on miami beach i noticed that to save time, the structure is decorated on the ground and lifted […]
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softronics
flexible batteries, flexible displays, flexible solar panels, electronic fabric, it seems like something is brewing… are electronics meant to creep out of their plastic boxes and become soft, supple, wearable, and flexible? something like this was foreshadowed years ago by claes oldenburg who made this soft typewriter (above) in 1963 along with a series of […]
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sketch board
this image inspires me: no need for fab labs, with a knife you can scratch out a circuit board from copper. via MAKE
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laser knife
i’ve been waiting for years to replace my xacto knife with a hand-held laser. wicked lasers makes a number of portable lasers capable of burning through paper or plastic from a few meters away with only 200mW. too bad they’re only for ‘scientific use’ via gizmodo
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open replicator
reprap is an open-source 3d printer capable of fixing itself by replicating its own parts, or even make offspring. the current limitation is that it still requires advanced components such as stepper motors and circuit boards, which it cannot make but are widely available.
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definition of style
while looking up words on the thefreedictionary.com i was seduced by a little ad that offers to place the definition i chose on a custom t-shirt by zazzle with a clever interface that will accept any text or images on a variety of shirts
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