“To create Adour’s virtual sommelier, the first high-profile example of an interactive tabletop menu, Rockwell hired a much smaller outfit, Potion Design, a New York firm started by two graduates of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology Media Lab. Their system uses high-end projectors, computers, a Web-based database, and a vision-sensing system, all tied together with proprietary software. The technology has been installed before in office spaces and museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Asia Society. But, Potion partner Jared Schiffman says, “this is the first time we’ve used this in a restaurant or service setting.” Total cost of the project: about $250,000.”
Royal College of Art students were set the challenge of designing a mobile phone to “outperform, outsmart, and outmanoeuvre everything on the market.” Read the BBC article.
Via Yanko Design… An inflatable mouse for ultra portability! Mais où va le monde? :)
Pictures from website
“The Jelly Click takes mouse portability to the extreme. All the electronic circuity lives on a small flexible board. The body itself is just soft plastic. Whenever you need a mouse, blow up the Jelly Click, attach the USB cable and you’re good to go. As a bonus, it’s a total floaty for you swimming challenged people.
Designers: Bongkun Shin, Heungkyo Seo, Jiwoong Hwang & Wooteik Lim”
“The second Summit has an ambitious program. The Art Center Summit: Systems, Cities & Sustainable Mobility will look at the big picture: the broad systems thinking and systems integration needed to create a better future for society. How can design encourage large groups to rethink how they move from Point A to Point B? How does one design attractive, efficient and financially viable solutions for new communities? How can new systems be designed for existing environments? How should the design process integrate with cross-disciplinary systems and teams”
Weare™ is a 2007 scarf, a co-created fashion… by Moving Brands.
Screenshot from the website
“Last Christmas we set up a screen made of fairy lights in the Moving Brands window.”
“We then invited people to send messages and drawings, via a simple web-interface, to be shown in sequence in the window. The window was captured by webcam and broadcast live to the internet.”
“We stored everything sent to the window in a gallery, and the full sequence has been used to create this scarf.”
PS: I have entered 3 drawings and ordered leggings :)
The creators are Adam Mack, Brian Mason, John Lai, Paul Silberschatz and Eleanor Morgan…
“The Aquaduct is pedal powered vehicle that transports, filters, and stores water for the developing world. A peristaltic pump attached to the pedal crank draws water from a large tank, through a carbon filter, to a smaller clean tank. The clean tank is removable and closed for contamination-free home storage and use. A clutch engages and disengages the drive belt from the pedal crank, enabling the rider to filter the water while traveling or while stationary. The Aquaduct is the winning entry in the Innovate or Die contest put on by Google and Specialized. Please see the website: www.innovate-or-die.com for more details.”
Prof. Sangmin Bae and his team (Lim Yuree, Stacy + Sohn Seongki + Jeong Huikyung + Park Hyejin) from ID + IM Design Lab have designed clothTag, an “RFID tagging for your clothing life.” The team is the red dot award winner of 2007:
“Clothing could be a lot smarter with clothTag – a clothing tag that stores and communicates information about the clothing to which it is attached.
clothTag uses RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) technology for identification and interaction with other objects, such as smart mirrors in shops, as well as with washing machines, steam irons, closets and clothes hangers, as shown in the illustrations. Beyond these devices, clothTag has unlimited possibilities for application.
The information stored and communicated is helpful to the user, and includes general laundry treatment, colour, size, material, and colour codes. clothTag is also designed to give the user information even if the user doesn’t have a reader device; the circuit of the RFID tag can form four traditional laundry icons. The water washable icon (1), acid washing icon (2), ironing icon (3) and size icon (4) are available. The form of the circuit gives the outline of each icon group and the manufacturer can print out corresponding details of each icon on the tag.
clothTag also gives information about materials used in the cloth. The bottom bar indicates name of materials and percentage of each material used. A colour chip is provided in the middle of clothTag. The main colour and exact colour code of the cloth is printed on the tag, so the user can choose the exact colour he or she wants.”
“Solution au décalage horaire et au blues hivernal : les boutiques d’Aéroports de Paris initient les passagers à la luminothérapie
A partir du 20 décembre, et pour la première fois dans un aéroport, les passagers
se verront proposer gratuitement une initiation à la luminothérapie pour recharger
leurs batteries avant leur départ !
Les passagers pourront tester à Paris-Orly et de Paris-Charles de Gaulle cette nouvelle technique de bien-être qui permet notamment de diminuer les effets du décalage horaire et du “blues hivernal”. Le programme proposé par les boutiques d’Aéroports de Paris prévoit d’une part, des espaces fixes de luminothérapie et d’autre part, des équipes mobiles pour des séances “express” en salle d’embarquement.
A partir de janvier 2008, la luminothérapie sera disponible dans les boutiques d’Aéroports de Paris. A Paris-Charles de Gaulle, les points de vente Be Relax proposeront des massages “anti-jet lag” et des produits de luminothérapie.”
