As some might know, this month's swiss design magazine IdPure features Korner Union's piece titled "oh no, it's melting day again" and i casually ran into this website that sells numbered prints of the piece. You might alo wanna take the time to visit the rest of the site if you havn't already; they feature self initiated graphic design projects in many categories.
Nokia's new concept phone the 888 designed by Tamer Nakisci is possibly the closest we have gotten to the future technology-wise. Benelux Design Contest gives us a hint that how the future phones would look like. This phone has only appeared on the drawing paper till now. The phone will look like a bracelet, use liquid batteries and feature speech recognition. It will have a flexible touch screen and a sensitive body cover. It will also have all the features of a communicator.
You dont have to carry it in your pocket or on your wrist. You can carry it anywhere, in anyform. You can roll it, bend it, put on your clothes like a clip. It also makes some form changes that makes it more ergonomical: i.e. when you want to talk on the phone, the body form turns into the form of the good old telephone. You can personalize these forms and record them. So it fits you the best in the way that you have chosen.
Also e-motions let you send forms to other 888 users: i.e. you can send a heart shape to your girlfriend or a dancing figure to your friends to call them to the party tonight. This way you can talk without words. click
The advent of companies such as HoloPro, Universal Display Corporation and materials such as Makrolon (manufactured by Bayer), may mean new times are in the pipeline for the whole display and t.v. industry. Flexible screens, FOLED (Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes) and paper thin displays. In this video produced by Cnet we can have a taste of what the future holds in store.
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The choices for playing and scratching live video nowadays are incresingly better. A smart expansion on behalf of most Vj-ing software companies into full blown Midi hardware tools is evergrowing. Wether it be Resolume's ReAct controller or Livid Instrument's Viditar, which is custom build to user specifications or the more commercial 'Tactic' controller; there is a constant growth in Vj-ing products to suit the constantly gorwing live videoperformance or 'scratching' which, i hope, will some day reach the stature of today's DJ scene.
Cultural spokesoerson and designer marc Ecko decided to spray paint Air Force One as part of a publicity stunt to promote free speech and our constitutional right of expression. Although the two minute video is actually a hoax and is actually a rented 727 painted to match AF1 almost exactly, it helped boost Ecko and open a dialog to promote his ideas and opinions on free speech.
the Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA) has been for years working on a number of different projects, most of which directly or indirectly involve robotics or some sort of human=machine interaction.
One fo their more interesting pieces is the Street Writer. A descendent of the fully independent moving robot equiped with a series of spray cans controlled by an onboard computer to deliver text messages on the pavement codenamed "Graffiti Writer". The SW consists of a large white utility van equipped with the same arrange of computer controlled spray cans than its younger brother.. but at a much larger scale.
visit the IAA website for videos and more info on their other projecs such as little brother.
A nice Visual Effects demonstration by students @ the Vancouver film School digital media program. Nice use of dynamic editing and some pretty nice compositing nd tracking.
Hektor is a Spray Paint Output Device. It was realized during two months in Summer 2002 by Jürg Lehni and Uli Franke, an electronics engineer from Zurich, for Lehni's diploma project at the école cantonale d'art de Lausanne (écal).
Hektor consists of a suitcase which contains two electric motors, a spray-can holder, toothed belts, cables, a strong battery and a circuit board which is connected to a laptop and controls the machine. The motors that are mounted onto the wall suspend the can holder through the toothed belts and define its position by changing the length of these belts.
Hektor follows instructions written in Java script through Scriptographer for Adobe Illustrator.
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