Makerbot goes apple style, maybe? “When Mark Frauenfelder was asked to think of an imaginary future Apple product, he came up with a 3D printer in full Apple style, glossy and sleek.”
via Bre Pettis
Drawing on Paper with iPhone + Pen Plotter
by underdoeg aka Philip Whitfield. “iPhone sending touch information to a pen plotter plugged into a computer.”
via creativeapps
Seating by Rich Gilbert by CubeMe. “SuperFoam is a re-creation of naturally occurring reticulated foam structures through a casting process that facilitates designing the properties of the foam itself. By developing the casting process the properties of the foam could be controlled so the chair flexed and deformed to create a supportive structure.”
via CedricKiefer
Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis
Wall Street Journal article Nov. 13 2009. “The American tradition of tinkering — the spark for inventions from the telephone to the Apple computer — is making a comeback, boosted by renewed interest in hands-on work amid the economic crisis and falling prices of high-tech tools and materials. Occupying a space somewhere between shop class and the computer lab, the new tinkerers are making everything from devices that Twitter how much beer is left in a keg to robots that assist doctors. The experimentation is even creating companies. With innovation a prime factor in driving economic growth, and corporate research and development spending tepid, the marriage of brains and brawn offers one hopeful glimmer.”
by TheGreenEyl. “With the Jammer Horn one can blow out mobile phones. It does not make any sound but yet the blower of the horn gains supremacy over the communication within the immediate vicinity. [..] A temperature sensor triggers a high-range cell phone jammer that sits inside the horn. With the use of the horn’s bell, a directional signal is sent out blocking any cell phone activity within 30-50 meters of the horn.”
by Satoshi Morita. “While the sound is recorded its perspective is designed by means of the microphone as an ‘extended ear’ and while listening by means of the loudspeaker as ‘mirrors of the ear’. The transducer which is built into the ‘Sound Helmet’ adds the tactile perception. All this makes sound tangible. [..] Klangkapsel / Sonic Helmet” provides a new way of listning to sound - with unique auditory spatial perception and tactile perception through three audio channels. It’s open for collaboration with sound artists, musicians and composers.”
by Rebecca Lyddon. When “asked us to design a city guide for london breaking away from the norm Rebecca Lyddon’s response explores the way that we learn and gain a personal understanding from our surroundings. By looking at the idea of perception and the way that we look at things she has made a pack which contains 12 masks (flat pack) where the viewer choses a mask to wear in a location. It is their personal experience which creates a unique view for the viewer to experience.” via pixelsumo
by Ben Hopson. “The sculpture is a kind of mechanical drawing machine that is strapped to the forearm and produces strange curvilinear scrawls through an opaque system of twisting mechanics and spooling thread. The kinetic piece is used in the early scenes of the video to establish the theme of thread that literally and figuratively winds through the narrative.”
Dont miss the article ‘about kinetic design’ by Ben Hopson.
“The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies”
“Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling Group communities have teamed-up with a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes.”
by David Wicks. “Portable Forest is a jacket that brings a riparian habitat to your current location. As you zip up the jacket, bird calls begin to echo around you. [..] By zipping up the jacket, you create not only physical and thermal barriers to your environment, but also a new sonic environment around yourself. The further the jacket is zipped up, the stronger and more varied the forest sounds become.”
A Portal to Cell and Molecular Animation. “This web resource presents an organized directory of cell and molecular animations, as well as a collection of original tutorials for life science professionals learning 3D visualization. The goal is to provide an efficient way for scientists and educators to browse and access existing animations for teaching and communication purposes. We hope to build an open community among 3D users focusing their efforts on cell and molecular visualizations.”
A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing
by Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova, Situated Technologies pamphlets 5. “The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural League, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics and other “situated” technologies?”
related nearfuturelaboratory, liftlab
works by Yuri Suzuki. Tip Tap 2” has an element of performance but has not an element of composition.
The control box has a microphone inside then player can beatbox then it can record and play back with TipTap. It can change control the tempo.” video, more works
by toby harris. “A controller with DJ style crossfader, ‘Fade to Black’ knob, and video format selector (see below).
A video processor with two DVI-I inputs and a single DVI-I output, capable of the video formats following. The output is locked to its own timebase, ensuring solid output regardless of inputs. The input’s EDID switches to the current video format so your laptop should automatically change to the current resolution.”
by tobyz.net, related TripleHead2Go
making the invisible visible. Sensing the invisible. An article by Jack Schulze. “Following Nearness, the chain reaction film, is Immaterials: The ghost in the field, our next film with Timo Arnall at the Touch project. There are 4 billion RFID tags in the world. They may soon outnumber the people. Readers and tags are increasingly embedded in the things and environments in which we live. How do readers see tags? When we imagine RFID and their invisible radio fields, what should we see? Immaterials explains the experiments we have performed to see RFID as it sees itself.”
related: nearfield.org, sensing the immaterial city (cityofsound)
