architectradurearchitectradureThis blogs explores product design, technologies, interaction design and contemporary art. I present both Personal work and inspirational work. 
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The mix tape business
2007-11-27 02:22:00 A come back for the mix tape business. After the tape with style we have the regular tape packaging that hides a usb key. My favorite part is the usb mix tape's advertisement: Stores up to 1 hour of high quality digital music - the same amount as you get on a C60 cassette tape. Perfect for creating your own unique compilation or mix ‘tape’. When you have 60 minutes you have to think carefully about what you are going to put on there!Is the idea that by constraining the potential of a product, users will carefully consider the potential being given? This is a bit sad. Or is the idea that this product is super conceptual and needs to offer the same amount of 60 minutes of music that is usual in C60 cassette tapes? In that case there is a nostalgic connection, but no innovation. At the end I like the metaphor effort in it, but I prefer the possibility to uniquely tailor my tape with style. The tailoring of the tape could take advantage of online digital art communities such as Ope... More About: Business , Sine
Bio Battery Powered By Sugar
2007-11-26 09:38:00 4 prototype bio battery units connected to Walkman for playbackFollowing up on my previous post kinetic vs electric toys by Sony, Sony also developed a bio battery prototype that generates electricity from sugar, similar to the method used in living organisms. Sugar is a naturally occurring energy source produced by plants through photosynthesis. It is therefore regenerative, and can be found in most areas of the earth, underlining the potential for sugar-based bio batteries as an ecologically-friendly energy device of the future.As humans breakdown food for energy, the battery would generate electricity by breaking down carbohydrates or sugars through the use of enzymes. Since sugar is a natural energy source, the bio battery would be an environmentally friendly choice as it would dramatically reduce disposal issues with disposable batteries used today. Test cells have generated up to 50 milliwatts, which is the highest for a bio battery of this type according to Sony. Currently, i... More About: Battery
Birthday invasion
2007-11-26 09:28:00 Today it is my birthday's invasion! More About: Birthday , Invasion
A portent of human augmentation
2007-11-24 08:00:00 Greasy Spoon, 2007 by Brian WalkerIn our cyborg world, I think it would be nice if prosthesis could mean expanding human skills or on a contrary re-creating fragile and powerless human sculptures.Examples of prosthesesResearchers explored the ability of the skin to acquire and process information rivaling our senses of sight and hearing. The e-skin lab researches on tactile interfaces consisting both of sensors and actuators: wearable artificial skins as a navigation aid in space.The Rheo Knee made by Ossur adapts to an individual's walking style by detecting 1,000 times every second the knee's position and the load applied to the limb. The user gets the proper amount of resistance for every step.Via wiredVicthom's urinary implant, a catheter-free, fully implanted pacemaker for the bladder. If trials go well, it could help 800 million people worldwide with bladder dysfunctions caused by spinal cord injury.Durom™ Hip Resurfacing a joint replacement system that offers "freedom" o... More About: Human , Augmentation
An intelligent bar of soap!
2007-11-24 07:16:00 The Bar of Soap , created by Michael Bove, Stacie Slotnick and Brandon Taylor at the MIT Media Laboratory, is a handheld device that recognizes how it is being held and adjusts its functionality accordingly. For instance if you want to make a phone call, just hold the bar of soap like a phone!The device senses the pattern of touch and orientation when it is held, and reconfigures to become one of a variety of devices, such as phone, camera, remote control, PDA, or game machine. Pattern-recognition techniques allow the device to infer the user's intention based on grasp. We are now adding display surfaces across the entire device so that buttons and indicators can be created where needed for a particular mode. More About: Intelligent , Gent
Toy or not toy exhibit
2007-11-22 07:07:00 An exhibition I should not have missed! Thankfully Etienne Mineur reported on it wonderfully: Toy Comix, an exhibition at the musée des Arts décoratifs. More About: Exhibit
Toy or not toy exhibit
2007-11-22 06:56:00 An exhibition I should not have missed! Thankfully Etienne Mineur reported on it wonderfully: Toy Comix, an exhibition at the musée des Arts décoratifs. More About: Exhibit
Serial robots
2007-11-22 06:14:00 Robots are making it in advertising! Hair cut and make up design by robots, Tiky Advertising, November 2007. More About: Robots , Serial
Serial robots
2007-11-22 06:02:00 Robots are making it in advertising! Hair cut and make up design by robots, Tiky Advertising, November 2007. More About: Robots , Serial
Firebird
2007-11-19 18:45:00 Contrasting delicate silhouettes with a massive robotic construction, this moving sculpture retro-projects goth-looking birds. Work by Jonathan Schipper and Amelia Biewald.
Firebird
2007-11-19 18:33:00 Contrasting delicate silhouettes with a massive robotic construction, this moving sculpture retro-projects goth-looking birds. Work by Jonathan Schipper and Amelia Biewald.
A love story
2007-11-17 02:52:00 Swarovski makes heart pendants that hide a computer key! A key to millions of love letters, pictures and all that, for a modest crystal price and that you can share between your neck and your laptop. More About: Love , Story , Love story , A Love Story
A love story
2007-11-17 02:45:00 Swarovski makes heart pendants that hide a computer key! A key to millions of love letters, pictures and all that, for a modest crystal price and that you can share between your neck and your laptop. More About: Love , Story , Love story , A Love Story
Robotic furniture design part II
2007-11-17 02:33:00 The Meeraboo FL-1 a floor lamp with white curvilinear shapes fused with linear components, teardrop shaped feet on thin white legs, and illuminated golden interiors!I wrote about Victor Vetterlein's work on robotic furniture design. He recently sent me his latest explorations. Same color palette! The Meeraboo FL-1 floor lamp is 60 inches (152.4cm) in height, and 24 inches (61 cm) wide. The body of the lamp is fiberglass with a high gloss white finish. The interior is gold leaf. An electric cord passes through a rear leg of the lamp to supply an internal adjustable light source, and a removable panel on the side of the lamp provides access to the inside. The FL-1 is designed to cast light downward in order to reflect light off the floor plain. More About: Design , Robotic , Furniture , Part
Robotic furniture design part II
2007-11-17 02:24:00 The Meeraboo FL-1 a floor lamp with white curvilinear shapes fused with linear components, teardrop shaped feet on thin white legs, and illuminated golden interiors!I wrote about Victor Vetterlein's work on robotic furniture design. He recently sent me his latest explorations. Same color palette! The Meeraboo FL-1 floor lamp is 60 inches (152.4cm) in height, and 24 inches (61 cm) wide. The body of the lamp is fiberglass with a high gloss white finish. The interior is gold leaf. An electric cord passes through a rear leg of the lamp to supply an internal adjustable light source, and a removable panel on the side of the lamp provides access to the inside. The FL-1 is designed to cast light downward in order to reflect light off the floor plain. More About: Design , Robotic , Furniture , Part
An insight into John Maeda's shoe design for Reebok
2007-11-15 06:22:00 The king of simplicity is revisiting the new frontier in business competition.John Maeda' shoe design accompanies Reebok 's trend for mass customization and brings his perspective on what can be done on the shoe "canvas". In mass customization, firms have thrown away the old paradigm of Mass Production by creating a variety and customization through flexibility and quick responsiveness. This is a new logic more suited to a world in which stability and control can no longer be maintained. More About: Design , Insight , Shoe
Fancy masks
2007-11-15 05:41:00 So you are working on your precious mold, lots of polyurethane threatens your life, you need a mask. These masks are for you: the high fashion protection! More About: Masks , Fancy
Fancy masks
2007-11-15 05:37:00 So you are working on your precious mold, lots of polyurethane threatens your life, you need a mask. These masks are for you: the high fashion protection! More About: Masks , Fancy
An insight into John Maeda's shoe design for Reebok
2007-11-14 04:53:00 The king of simplicity is revisiting the new frontier in business competition.John Maeda' shoe design accompanies Reebok 's trend for mass customization and brings his perspective on what can be done on the shoe "canvas". In mass customization, firms have thrown away the old paradigm of Mass Production by creating a variety and customization through flexibility and quick responsiveness. This is a new logic more suited to a world in which stability and control can no longer be maintained. More About: Design , Insight , Shoe
Tech outfit communication
2007-11-14 04:04:00 A costume that controls a video presentation by truth dare double dareA zipper that turns on/off the light!Or Rainbug, a raincoat that relies upon the natural gesture of the young wearer to interact and transform butterflies into flowers! More About: Communication , Tech , Outfit
Tech outfit communication
2007-11-14 03:52:00 A costume that controls a video presentation by truth dare double dareA zipper that turns on/off the light!Or Rainbug, a raincoat that relies upon the natural gesture of the young wearer to interact and transform butterflies into flowers! More About: Communication , Tech , Outfit
Airbed
2007-11-14 03:28:00 Airbed, an artificial lung and breathing mattress, is constructed from clear polythene and chromed waste plugs. It is a hybrid object borrowing language from the bedroom and the bathroom. An intermittent air supply feed into one end of the mattress bringing the bed to life. Audible bursts of air are sent down a plastic windpipe, mimicking a sleeping body.
Airbed
2007-11-14 03:20:00 Airbed, an artificial lung and breathing mattress, is constructed from clear polythene and chromed waste plugs. It is a hybrid object borrowing language from the bedroom and the bathroom. An intermittent air supply feed into one end of the mattress bringing the bed to life. Audible bursts of air are sent down a plastic windpipe, mimicking a sleeping body.
The Dumpster
2007-11-11 16:13:00 The Dumpster is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has "dumped" another. The project's graphical tools reveal the astonishing similarities, unique differences, and underlying patterns of these failed relationships, providing both peculiarly analytic and sympathetically intimate perspectives onto the diversity of global romantic pain.Web site
The Dumpster
2007-11-11 16:10:00 The Dumpster is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has "dumped" another. The project's graphical tools reveal the astonishing similarities, unique differences, and underlying patterns of these failed relationships, providing both peculiarly analytic and sympathetically intimate perspectives onto the diversity of global romantic pain.Web site
Accordion Hero II
2007-11-09 16:58:00 If you are tired of the guitar, here is an accordion's version! More About: Hero , Accordion , Cord , Accord
Accordion Hero II
2007-11-09 15:39:00 If you are tired of the guitar, here is an accordion's version! More About: Hero , Accordion , Cord , Accord
Circoripopolo goes airtistique!
More articles from this author:2007-11-06 08:43:00 One of the nicest web project I have ever seen. Two actors find their space on the web! More About: Goes , Polo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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