what if the benign effects of religion are intimately tied to the dark side? What if you canât have the good without the bad? What if the shared sense of community, for example, is tied to the belief that God has given this community a personal mandate,
For something to be perceived as authentic, that value has to be communicated cleanly through every detail â from the quality of the wash, if itâs a T-shirt, to the integrity of the physical environment. This is the almost visceral sense you get when
âThey should buy Dellâs $499 laptop for now,â he said. âOurs is really designed for developing nations â dusty, dirty, no or unreliable power and so on.â
Hafkin wants a future of Cyberellas, empowered women who have the ability to devise new uses for information technology, find and create information and act as designers, not just users.
If you donât preserve nature by switching off your computer, who will? Publicis created an incredible ad campaign for EDF featuring penguins turning off computers, meerkats installing solar panels, anteaters turning of the tube and orangutan screwing i
Tai-Chi (Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer-Human Interaction), was developed by researchers from Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France and the UK. “We have made a system that can give any object, even a 3D one, a sense of touch,” says Ming Yang, an
Yes yes yes. “There are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving…”
The Flickr Umbrella, also known as Pileus (which refers both to the head of a mushroom and a cloud formation), can download and project still image and video content in real-time from Flickr or other websites using the umbrella fabric as the projection surface. Images are advanced with a simple flick of the wrist, which rotates the umbrella shaft a couple degrees. The umbrella also comes equipped with a simple camera mounted to the shaft, and a low-resolution photograph may be taken, uploaded to the Flickr website, and actively projected by the umbrella within two to three seconds.
Create art while you work! If you find yourself spending more and more time answering email, and less and less time making art then why not do them both at the same time? Turn your emails, internet browsing, and report writing into digital paintings. 9 to 5 paintings are a visual representation of your daily computing routines.
A Splayd is a versatile combination of spoon, fork and knife in one. It’s an Australian invention dating back to the 1940’s that became the definitive wedding gift by the early 1970’s. Splayds enable you to eat from a plate using one hand.
Brinda Dalal, Xerox “Garbologist,” discovered a notable change in the role of paper in modern offices, where it’s increasingly used as a medium of display rather than storage. Documents are stored on central servers and personal computers and printed only as needed; for meetings, editing or reviewing information. The pieces of paper spewed from copiers frequently end up back in the recycling bin on the same day they are printed, she noted.
HowStuffisMade is an encyclopedia of and manufacturing processes and labor conditions involved in the production of contemporary products. HowStuffisMade (HSIM) reconsiders engineering / design education as fundamentally connected to the social and political constraints, organizational innovations and global context that inform manufacturing decisions.
London and online shop showcases the sometimes weird and wonderful relation between technology and nature through a selection of products, software and art. Pictured: Marcel Wanders‘ brilliant and delightful home cinema series.
Comparing interface and video on youtube, vimeo, google, revver, blip.tv, soapbox and metacafe side by side. (I like Blip!) with link to quick and easy how-to-post-videos for newbies.
So charmed by this episode of “Sexy Beijing” today. (Thanks, Niblettes!). Su Fei (Anna Sophie Loewenberg) cracks me up lamenting her Chinese name (Su Fei is also a prominent brand of maxipads) and exploring why and how Beijing citizens got their English names with gentle humor.
Since my Chinese name, æŽç¶é (Dai Wei Dao, a transliteration of my last name given by my beloved Chinese teacher in 8th grade), turned out to be curiously masculine, I’m laughing with you.
Enjoying also the Hard Hat series of short videos on happenings in Beijing and China at DanWei.TV.
Global Orgasm is an experiment open to everyone in the world. The goal is to add so much concentrated and high-energy positive input into the energy field of the Earth that it will reduce the current dangerous levels of aggression and violence throughout
Filmmakers of “The Corporation” distributing high quality rip of master DVD + bonus materials through BitTorrent for free and launched a campaign for Corporate Harm Reduction (C4CHR) to collect stories on impact of film as feedback loop on “what you can d
There’s also a new LS model in the gallery, but no mention of the hybrid (coming in 2008, apparently) or other high end green EcoDesignLifestyle ideas, products and places they’ve been promoting elsewhere around town.
In her Madonna Series, artist Chris Twomey interprets the mother-child bond from a more scientific standpoint: using the genetic similarities that are passed down through DNA. Twomey takes photographs of mothers (herself included) and their children in po
antidepressant perfume containing monoaminated alkaloids phenylethylamine and theobromine. sparkling fruity but also delightfully spicy woody-musky, with a top note of creepy and lingering finish of hokey.
HSIM: How Stuff Is Made
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