Hasta La Ideas

In 1918 Marcel Duchamp, an avid chess player, designed a one-off set and had it hand-carved in Buenos Aires. Depending on whom you listen to, that set has either been lost or is sitting in someone’s private collection; either way you’re not getting your grubby little mitts on it.

But now, thanks to artists and makers Scott Kildall and Bryan Cera, anyone with a 3D printer can crank out something very close. That’s because Kildall, on a mission to recreate lost objects, tracked down some archival photos and contacted Cera, who then took the few images of Duchamp’s set and painstakingly CAD’ded over the pieces one by one.

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Love the song and the deep meaning of taking the weather with you, albeit only if it’s sunshine and cheery! The thing with weather predictions in most countries is that it’s the most unreliable news relayed on the TV Channels. For example, in my hometown if the station predicts a sunny day, be assured it’s going to rain heavy! To remove this ambiguity about the weather, we have here the StormTag – your personalized weather station.

The beauty about this device is that it’s small and portable, good enough to be a weather station on your key ring. The main purpose of the StormTag is to keep you in the loop about approaching storms and weather conditions. Its for those who work in a weather-dependent environment like sailors and outdoors folks, science enthusiasts like storm chasers or just regular folks like us who’d really like to know if we should take the efforts of carrying our umbrellas to work or not!

StormTag has the capability of storing a year worth of temperature, barometer, humidity and UV data. It syncs to your phone, thus allowing you to crowd source weather information! Designed to be 100% waterproof, the device is small and handy.

We asked man behind it all – Jon Atherton to highlight a few features of the StromTag and this is what he asked us at the first go – What if you could be part of a team that changed the way our climate was analyzed?

We’re about to start a 2-year worldwide project to perfect crowd sourced weather data, and your StormTag will contribute meaningful data that is open for scientific analysis.

StormTag Shares Weather Data to the Cloud

The StormTag App collects data to provide you with some weather predictions in real time, even without an internet connection.

Features

• Barometric Pressure Sensor for weather mapping.
• Temperature sensor.
• 100% waterproof.
• Over 1 year battery life.
• Data logging for as long as the battery lasts.
• Weather data is stored in onboard memory even when your phone or tablet is not connected to StormTag+.
• More regular syncing will deliver finer grained data.
• Humidity Sensor: to provide more accurate forecasting and more complete data collection.
• UV sensor.

The water resistant design hooks onto ski jackets, backpacks, key rings, and boat keys. The device has a temperature and a barometric pressure sensor and it uses Bluetooth LE to communicate this data to iPhones, iPads and compatible Android devices.

The most helpful aspect is that you also contribute all this anonymous data back to the StormTag’s cloud of weather information where scientists can access it and all other StormTag owners. This will go to improve localized weather predictions and give you the real updates on the weather. Good going!

Available At: StormTag [ Buy it Here ]

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These new images by architecture photographer Edmon Leong show the undulating contours and glittering surfaces of Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza complex in Seoul, South Korea (+ slideshow).

Completed in the spring, the 38,000-square-metre cultural complex is located at the heart of Seoul’s 24-hour shopping district. It encompasses an art, design and technology hub, an adjoining public plaza and a landscaped park.

Zaha Hadid Architects designed a curvaceous aluminium facade that is speckled with minute holes and backlit by night, creating a twinkling effect described by the design team as a “a field of pixilation and perforation patterns”.

Edmon Leong, who regularly photographs Hadid’s projects, says the building is one of the largest he’s seen by the London-based architect.

“It looks like the Starship Enterprise just landed in Seoul,” he told Dezeen. “It really stands out against the surrounding buildings, which are extremely old and weathered. No other modern structure can been seen in the area.”

The photographer said the project attracts a mixed response from locals and tourists, with some taking selfies in front of the building.

“I overheard comments like ‘this is amazing’ and ‘it looks like something from outer space’. The words ‘ugly’ and ‘out of context’ were also expressed, and at times I felt like I needed to defend the work,” he said.

The eight-storey complex hides half of its volume below ground level. The interior, which Leong describes as “signature Zaha Hadid, with layers of white curves”, accommodates exhibition galleries, a design museum, and a library and education centre.

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captured in new photographs appeared first on Dezeen.

Emulsified liquid latex stretches over bodies and fermented dough drips from skin in this movie by graduate textile designer Shai Langen.

Shai Langen created a collection of materials by combining liquid latex with calcium nitrate for her graduation project Chimera, completed at the HKU Utrecht School of Arts.

The materials were added to textiles worn to look like synthetic fungi growing over the skin.

“I’ve been experimenting with the shapes that form through dripping latex into the emulsion of water and calcium nitrate,” Langen told Dezeen.

Calcium nitrate is used in the balloon, gloves and condom industries to create a uniform film around a mould.

“By changing the viscosity of both the latex and the emulsion I was able to create different outcomes,” said Langen.

Water surface tension, ratio of calcium nitrate to water and the drying process all contribute to the properties of the finished materials.

Each piece in the collection was formed in a different thickness and using a different dripping technique.

“With the different techniques I created a collection that resembles cellular structures, slime moulds and fungi-like textures, which are created and formed like living and growing organisms,” said Langen.

The first material was created by dripping latex into the emulsion so it coagulated into cell-like droplets. The drops were then applied to a full-body spandex Morphsuit.

Oppositely, dripping the emulsion onto a thin layer of the liquid latex formed a stretchy material that reveals its pattern under tension.

Dropping globs of thickened latex from a height onto a thin layer of the emulsion resulted in circular scales, which were then positioned in an overlapping pattern.

Another piece was developed without the calcium nitrate, by dipping hardware nails in latex to make glossy stalactites which were then glued onto a fabric.

The final material is a coloured, fermented dough that is smeared over the body then stretched and pulled apart by movements of the wearer.

“These textures are both organic and synthetic, exploring the boundary between living matter and non-living matter,” said the Amsterdam-based designer. “Chimera plays with the concept where the organic is overgrown with the synthetic, where natural processes mutate the skin into fungi like textures.”

Another designer that has experimented with liquid latex is Bart Hess, who encouraged members of the public to drip the material onto sheets of rubber for his installation in Milan earlier this year.

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