Darpa project with serious possibilities
Unbelievable: Boston Dynamics BigDog (March '08) - Watch more funny videos here
A Spoof of Robot dog
Posted By: The Juggernaut also known as Jer-Bear formerly called gentile Jeremy Birth named Jeremy Kerbs
15.10.09
The Fun Theory
We believe that the easiest way to change people's behavior for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.
Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better” is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do?
To throw rubbish in the bin instead of onto the floor shouldn’t really be so hard. Many people still fail to do so. Can we get more people to throw rubbish into the bin, rather than onto the ground, by making it fun to do?
Erik Roth
Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better” is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do?
To throw rubbish in the bin instead of onto the floor shouldn’t really be so hard. Many people still fail to do so. Can we get more people to throw rubbish into the bin, rather than onto the ground, by making it fun to do?
Erik Roth
D&AD Creative Search: A new search aggregator for designers
Petter Prinz, Kaspar Prinz and Phillip Cristofor of the D&AD Student Awards 2010 have just launched Creative Search, a new search aggregator especially for designers conducting visual research.
The idea is simple: search for a term and the site will show results from a number of different search queries. This is not a new idea, but the curation of search engines is specifically targeted for designers, including results from Google Images, Google Blogsearch, Flickr, iTunes, YouTube, Twitter, Amazon and Wikipedia. There's also a Save/Share option that will send a permalink of your search to you via email or to others through a number of social networking sites.
Erik Roth
14.10.09
Another Cool Eco Material Recycled Aluminum Resin
Sweet Material! Click on tittle for link.
Posted by Nathan Tommer
13.10.09
Change By Design
In his new book, the CEO of design shop IDEO shows how even hospitals can transform the way they work by tapping frontline staff to engineer change.
As the center of economic activity in the developed world shifts inexorably from industrial manufacturing to knowledge creation and service delivery, innovation has become nothing less than a survival strategy. It is, moreover, no longer limited to new physical products but includes new sorts of processes, services, interactions, entertainment forms, and ways of communicating and collaborating.
These are exactly the kinds of human-centered tasks that designers work on every day, and over time they have evolved a body of skills to help them do it. It is time for this type of thinking—design thinking—to migrate outward and upward into the highest levels of leadership.
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Posted by Helen Ice
Reflecting on a new generation of mirrors
Non-reversing mirror
This mirror does not produce a "mirror" image, making it possible to read reflected text normally.
Hicks, a mathematician at Drexel University, Philadelphia, used computer algorithms to generate the mirror's bizarre surface, which curves and bends in different directions. The curves direct rays from an object across the mirror's face before sending them back to the viewer, flipping the conventional mirror image.
As well as neat tricks like this, Hicks' models make it possible to design mirrors that provide wide angled-views or eliminate distortion.
List of the kinds of mirrors:
Driver-side mirror
Parabolic mirror
Perspective rectifying mirror
Infrared mirror
Cylinder mirror
click on title to read the descriptions.
posted by Helen Ice
This mirror does not produce a "mirror" image, making it possible to read reflected text normally.
Hicks, a mathematician at Drexel University, Philadelphia, used computer algorithms to generate the mirror's bizarre surface, which curves and bends in different directions. The curves direct rays from an object across the mirror's face before sending them back to the viewer, flipping the conventional mirror image.
As well as neat tricks like this, Hicks' models make it possible to design mirrors that provide wide angled-views or eliminate distortion.
List of the kinds of mirrors:
Driver-side mirror
Parabolic mirror
Perspective rectifying mirror
Infrared mirror
Cylinder mirror
click on title to read the descriptions.
posted by Helen Ice
12.10.09
Vaporwear: Lamborghini Shoes
Vaporware. It's what technophiles call the promise of invention that never seems to materialize. What you see here, however, redefines the term. We'll call them vaporwear, as this exotic pair of pumps exist only as a concept. They were designed on computer by Tim Coopers as a conceptual product for Tonino Lamborghini, the product design company run by the famous sportscar-maker's son. The design is inspired by the Lamborghini Gallardo Supeleggera, and incorporates carbon fiber heels. The image you see here is as close as anyone will get to seeing these shoes walking the streets, so click to view it in high resolution.
Posted by: Erin Wheeler
11.10.09
Sekai Camera application for iphone
Another reason that ipod touch must have a camera.. :-)
posted by ted shin
posted by ted shin
9.10.09
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