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<blockquote>We have largely eschewed the traditional academic channels of research papers, academic conference talks and the like. Producing evocative little pamphlets, fictional product catalogs, software that is quite counter to prevailing intuition about what software should be, little hardware devices that are designed to be used less rather than more — these are the kinds of…
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“The National Safety Transportation Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was Scaled Composite’s failure to consider and protect against the possibility that a single human error could result in a catastrophic hazard to the SpaceShipTwo vehicle,” the NTSB concluded. SpaceShipTwo mishap due to pilot error and company training oversight | Spaceflight Now…
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kqedscience: GIFs!! Can A Thousand Tiny Swarming Robots Outsmart Nature? | Deep Look GIFs of our future swarming overlords from our new Deep Look video: WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDsmbwOrHJs Presented in partnership with pbsdigitalstudios . ((LINK FIXED))
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Building the Future with Self-Healing Concrete
Building the Future with Self-Healing Concrete
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npr: In Helsinki, sports facilities pop up all over the place, sometimes in some pretty odd nooks and crannies. One bomb shelter hosts an archery club, another an underground swimming pool and an ice hockey rink. Though they hardly need it, there’s a national plan in Finland to get people to sit less. It reminds…
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robertogreco: GIF captured by prostheticknowledge from Danit Peleg’s “3D Printing Fashion: How I 3D-Printed Clothes at Home”
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the-paintrist: lostprofile: DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE OF WORLD WAR I Modern art, wartime strategy and perceptual psychology converged during World War I, giving rise to dazzle camouflage. Unlike traditional camouflage, which attempted to decrease a ship’s visibility by painting it the same colors as it surroundings, dazzle’s skewed, asymmetric, clashing lines made impossible to determine a ship’s…
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Authenticity in the Digital Age
ourrisd: What happens to the notion of place when objects are created and disseminated online? As makers and consumers, are we willing to accept the global, hybrid aesthetic that has developed in our increasingly digital world? These are some of the questions raised by Associate Professor of Industrial Design Paolo Cardini in an interesting opinion piece…
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Just because man’s need for tools is so obvious, we must guard ourselves against over-stressing the role of stone tools hundreds of thousands of years before they became functionally differentiated and efficient. In treating tool-making as central to early man’s survival, biologists and anthropologists for long underplayed, or neglected, a mass of activities in which…
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personalfactory: Print to build, joint collection by ollé gellért “One important feature of the design is that you do not have to screw or glue the parts. It is possible to build furniture, installations, partitions and anything else. It only depends on your creativity. With these experimental objects I wanted to draw attention to the…