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During a session with the photo diaries, for example, the researchers noted that the children’s bedrooms in New Jersey tended to be meticulously designed by the mothers. “They look like they’re from the pages of Elle Décor,” noted one participant. Another child’s bedroom in Los Angeles was suspiciously tidy with a stylish airplane mobile hanging…
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“This bridge will show how 3D printing finally enters the world of large-scale, functional objects and sustainable materials while allowing unprecedented freedom of form. The symbolism of the bridge is a beautiful metaphor to connect the technology of the future with the old city, in a way that brings out the best of both worlds.”…
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The Telegraph describes Ive’s change of position as a ‘promotion’. Ive was already the most influential person at Apple aside from Cook and his personality doesn’t exactly prescribe the need for a better title: Ive doesn’t really seem like a guy wanting an ego boost. Dropping the PR spin, this is a reorganisation so Ive…
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Hatch estimates that 70-80% of the jobs being done on TechShop’s desktop 3-D printers are prototypes, not finished products. “You can iterate two or three times in a single day, and that’s incredibly powerful,” he says. “Sometimes it’s good enough. Sometimes it’s an interior component so it doesn’t really matter what it looks like.” But…
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The company rates each battery to last for 2,000 recharge cycles, but expects to lose 20 percent of the original capacity after a quarter of that usage. So, after 500 cycles, Gogoro batteries are taken out of circulation — in order to ensure reliability for users, who are told to expect a 60-mile range from…
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tacanderson: As MakerBot Struggles, Desktop Milling Machines Are On The Rise – Buy a MakerBot Replicator, the leading desktop 3-D printer, for $2,889, and you can produce plastic prototypes or the kind of trinkets that you might find in a Happy Meal. Buy a small-scale milling machine like the Othermill, which retails for $2,199, and…
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Muriel Cooper and the Visual Language Workshop
Muriel Cooper and the Visual Language Workshop Alice Rawsthorn, design critic and historian, has taken to Instagram to disseminate short pieces. Here she makes note of the important contribution of Muriel Cooper.
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The Square – The New Yorker
The Square – The New Yorker An essay on Malevich’s painting, The Black Square. It’s worth your time.
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Sunset is that rare game endeavours to challenge players to be entertained by something other than action. It wants us to engage a higher level of our minds, the part reigned by curiosity, empathy, and analytical thought. Chad Sapieha http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/post-arcade/sunset-review-flawed-and-not-always-fun-but-also-smart-daring-and-worth-playing?__lsa=bbe2-a286 (via taleoftales)
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additivism: Try Your New Face Before You Buy It – MirrorMe3D 3D Prints Cosmetic Surgery Results Prior to Surgery When you go shopping for shoes, you try them on. Before you buy a new suit, you also try it on. When you are in the market for a new car, I’m willing to bet you…