Month: October 2013

  • lutsanguisargilla: ianbrooks: Tea Chemistry Set by Art Lebedev Adorned with a traditional Gzhel pattern, this ceramic chemistry set has been repurposed as a Russian tea set. The best kind of science is the type you can drink. (via: yankodesign) Cutest meth lab ever.

  • cinoh: 1. Fang Ngontang helmut mask (undated) 2. Valley Headwalls

  • cinoh: 1. Fang Ngontang helmut mask (undated) 2. Valley Headwalls

  • prostheticknowledge: Behind the eyes of Xbox One Kinect A demonstration of the improvements of the next generation Kinect sensor – video embedded below: Link

  • A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. — Steve Jobs in Wired, February 1996…

  • emergentfutures: Paul Higgins: Not sure that is true Martin. I agree that our social environment is taking a role in making those decisions but we are also seeing a significant rise in self tracking and information systems doing the same. I can imagine a system like this tied into a self tracking and a social…

  • iandeleonarts: My highlights from the 2013 CreativeTime Summit: 1. INVINCIBLE discussing the colonizing effects of speculative real estate, and proposing speculative fiction as a way of decolonizing from such effects 2. Vito Acconci Studio’s proposal for a post-9/11 WTC = building so full of holes, nobody would bother blowing it up 3. Chen Shaoxiong’s proposal…

  • kateoplis: “Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed…