Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations — a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on screen — that put a playful spin on ordinary objects and… Read More Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
By ALICE RAWSTHORN Published: March 6, 2011, New York Times LONDON — It started a month ago when I was asked to compile a list of 20 designers who will influence design in the next decade with Paola Antonelli, senior design curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. After weeks of emailing… Read More The Female Factor: Women at the Drawing Board
Concrete has a sometimes-bad reputation as a harsh, rigid, cold-to-the-touch and straight-edged material. Litracon is doing a great deal to change that image of concrete through a score of creative and sustainable applications for their patented light-transmitting concrete. Filled with optical fibers that run from one end of a poured piece of concrete to the other, these… Read More Light Transmitting Concrete
Two Cambridge University departments — the science-driven Biochemistry lab and the design-focused Institute for Manufacturing — have teamed up to dream up biophotovoltaic devices of the future. Biophotovoltaics generate renewable energy (and a few other useful by-products) from the photosynthesis of living organisms like algae and moss. Prototype devices have recently been constructed and tested in… Read More Biophotovoltaics – generating energy from photosynthesis
Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space? The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialize freehand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique system where two advanced techniques are combined. Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and… Read More Design with Light – Birth of an idea – Sketch Furniture, 2005
Textile Resistance is a collaborative project between Smart Textiles Design Lab and Syntjuntan. The project explores design possibilities of raw textile materials that can be used as textile music, which will be used by Syntjuntan in their music performances. This project investigates different knitted textiles made in conductive materials, to be used for textile synthesizers. The… Read More Textile Resistance
Reposted from TechCrunch. What we have here is a machine that automatically turns office paper into toilet paper. It’s called White Goat (seriously) and is made by a Japanese company called Oriental [JP]. The way it works is simple: You just feed the machine with about 40 sheets of office (or whatever) paper, wait for 30… Read More White Goat turns office paper into toilet paper