Hasta La Ideas

As if purveyors of print media didn’t have enough to worry about, now digital is really hitting them where they live—newsstands. CEMUSA, provider of what it calls “street furniture,” has partnered with the high-tech display wizards at Show+Tell to replace the old-school poster billboards on select New York City newsstands (and those swell new bus shelters) with digital signage. Existing poster light boxes will be transformed with sunlight-readable LCD screens. As for what they’ll be showing, expect “an engaging content strategy that incorporates social media, news feeds, real-time HD video broadcasts, and of course—the revenue generating engine—third party advertising,” writes Show+Tell’s Manolo Almagro on DailyDOOH. WireSpring was selected to handle the software end of things, while Almagro credits “the fabrication and engineering ninjas” at Display Devices with figuring out “how to squish a 2 x 2 landscape-oriented matrix of Samsung’s 65″ and (1) 70″ outdoor readable LCD into the existing backlit poster light box,” which sounds rather painful. Look for the new digitally enhanced newsstands and bus shelters to hit NYC this fall.

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pWhat’s that photo of? Self-folding origami! Well, kind of. The Soft Robotics “Programmable Matter” developed by researchers at the A HREF=”http://micro.seas.harvard.edu/research.html” Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory/A under Professor Robert Wood consists of a sheet material lined with actuators. Which essentially means the darn things can fold themselves up in a predetermined way./p

pThe HML guys’ terse description of the project tells you why they went into microrobotics research and not, say, P.R.:/p

blockquoteWe are creating multi-functional materials with embedded sensing, actuation, communication, and computation. Our programmable matter sheets are currently self-reconfigurable and capable of forming multiple user-defined structural components and objects./blockquote

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pSure the technology’s in a primitive state, but man, think about how wicked this could be: You get a flat-pack in the mail, pull it out of the envelop, push the button, and boom–new iPhone! …And if that’s still quite some years off, well, I’d settle for a cool little crane./p

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pNeed a place to stay in Belgium where you can soak up some of the local, or international, color?/p

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pFrom a design perspective, The PANTONE HOTEL, Brussels is built on an exceptional use of contrast; a white canvas provides clean space for saturated colors to pop. Guest rooms feature unique photography by esteemed Belgian photographer Victor Levy./blockquote/p

pWhat would really be rad is if instead of hotel cards, you entered your room by swiping the appropriate Pantone chip./p

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Le duo de designers japonais Noto-Fusai explore les possibilités d’interactivité en terme de création de t-shirts. En utilisant une impression noire sur du blanc, et en ajoutant des éléments cousus, le rendu procure une réelle fraîcheur. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.

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