Arriva l’inverno e chi va in biga ha bisogno di guanti mediamente caldi per non ritrovarsi con le mani paralizzate dal freddo. Non so se possono bastare a proteggervi ma questo modello di Chari & Co NYC ha pollice e indice aperto per lasciarvi comunque la libertà di smanettare con i vostri device. Taglia unica.
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Disegnato dal duo creativo Gatis Vilaks e Krišj?nis Mežulis, se può servirvi questo font SUNN, lo trovate qui free.
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Les quatre compères du groupe OK Go ont l’habitude de mettre leur musique en images avec des clips qui sortent toujours de l’ordinaire. Le dernier en date ne déroge évidemment pas à la règle. Le réalisateur Morihiro Harano, avec l’aide d’un drone met en scène une nuée de danseurs et leurs parapluies agités en les transformant en véritable pixels humains. A découvrir sans plus tarder.
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Paris design studio Appropriate Audiences has combined a 3D printer with a tattooist’s needle to form an automated tattoo “printer” that can create indelible artworks on skin (+ movie).
Tatoué is a cross between a Makerbot 3D printer and a tattooist’s needle – a small handheld machine that inserts ink into a person’s skin using a sharp point, puncturing the skin up to 150 times per second.
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Appropriate Audiences adapted software produced by Autodesk to turn tattoo designs into digital files that can be downloaded to the machine. The user then inserts a limb into the printer and the needle draws the design into their skin.
“The idea of our machine is to give tattoo artists a new tool that offers plenty of new possibilities,” the designers told Dezeen.
“Anything you want can be designed on the computer, and replicated onto the skin. We are still working to develop the software in order to produce something that is more user-friendly, particularly for tattoo artists.”
The needle replaces the part of the printer that would usually extrude melted plastic to make objects, and has been adapted using bespoke 3D-printed parts. A sensor reads the surface of the skin of the user, meaning the needle can respond to changes in skin texture and the dimensions of the limb.
“We use a three axis machine, which we have deconstructed,” explained the designers.
“Making the machine more accessible is a challenge. And there are many possible future applications – in medicine or in fashion – but our priority is a third version of the machine, which will be able to tattoo any part of the body using a specific architecture. We are currently working on this.”
Appropriate Audiences was founded by designers Pierre Emm, Piotr Widelka and Johan Da Silveira after they met at Paris design school ENSCI les Ateliers.
The idea for Tatoué was born out of a workshop organised by the school in October 2013 that asked students to use digital material available in the public domain to create something new.
French 3D-printing company Le FabShop was invited to the workshop as a digital manufacturing expert and helped the students develop the idea for a machine that could create tattoos from a bank of digital images.
They initially hacked a desktop printer to enable it to trace on skin using a pen. To develop the idea further, they then borrowed a manual tattooing machine and tested the process on artificial skin.
The first image they tattooed onto a real person’s arm was a circle, which they described as “the perfect shape to test the precision of the process.”
“A lot of people were excited by the idea of being the first human tatooed by a ‘robot’,” said the designers.
“The big difficulty was to repeat the same exercise on a curved surface and on a material that has much more flexibility than silicone. Many tricks were tried to tighten the area around the skin – a metal ring, elastics, scotch tape – but the most effective one was a scooter’s inner tube, open on the area to be marked.”
Since that initial test earlier this year, the designers have been working on developing more sophisticated machines that could potentially tattoo other areas of the body and create more complicated designs.
The level of interest in the project has allowed the designers to dedicate their work to the development of Tatoué full time.
“From the onset of the project we have been exchanging with tattoo artists and now would like to deepen our relationships with them, so as to better adapt the machine to their different styles and practices,” they said.
“The next step for us would be to travel and meet as many tattoo artists as possible, in an effort to discover new practices and techniques throughout the world.”
Tatoué was on show in Paris last week as part of the Autodesk Gallery Pop-Up – an exhibition on the “future of design and engineering” at Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt.
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This redesign of the Oculus VR Headset focuses on user familiarity to more comfortably introduce this new virtual reality gaming tech. The design’s clean, sleek look more closely resembles a pair of fancy ski goggles, avoiding the over-embelishment and obviousness of the current headset. The product appeals to the gaming audience all while keeping a look for anything other virtual reality application.
Designer: Syed Rahman
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Pell Mell est une agence parisienne qui représente des artistes spécialisés dans la 3D à l’échelle internationale. Parmi les artistes et références qu’elle met en valeur, Serial Cut, un studio qui réalise en partie des natures mortes colorées et surréalistes. Une sélection de ses créations est à découvrir dans la galerie.
Just launched on Kickstarter, Fireside is bicoastal startup that promises to revolutionize digital photography—not in how we create images and video but how we share and enjoy them for posterity.
“1,000 songs in your pocket.”
So goes the tagline for the very first iPod, released 13 years ago (nearly to the day), a quaint conceit in hindsight. In fact, history has shown that the mp3 player and iTunes alike are merely incremental steps along the path to more versatile hardware and software: Smartphones are capable of fulfilling our listening needs beyond our wildest imaginations. With the concurrent advent of 3- and 4G networks, mobile devices can extract melodies from the ether, while streaming services offer unprecedented depth and breadth when it comes to choices and recommendations, neatly categorized with tags and filtered through metadata.
A database with millions upon millions of songs is one thing, but what about other media? Video is a younger cousin of audio to the extent that it too has exploded with the twofold emergence of online hosting platforms—viz. YouTube and Vimeo—and widely accessible hardware. GoPro is a case study in itself, but even our phones are powerful enough to capture everything from historic events and major occasions to random moments between those milestones.
But if it’s easier than ever to document our lives, the friction occurs at a different point in the user experience. For one thing, having hundreds of thousands of photos and videos means that each one becomes a proverbial drop in the pond, and organizing/editing them can be a chore in itself. Then there’s the incongruity between shooting—for which a small but powerful device is ideal—and actually viewing the results. A glass rectangle the size of the palm of your hand may be perfect for taking a call, accessing a music library and snapping a selfie, but it’s hardly the best format for appreciating visuals that inundate our screens these days.
Indeed, the latest generation of iPhones marks a slight concession to Apple’s competitors. Tim, Jony & co. decided that screen could stand to be bigger after all, and the sales figures validate the hypothesis thus far. With a screen that is nearly 40% bigger than that of its predecessor, the iPhone 6 is certainly easier on the eyes, not to mention the obligatory improvements in camera technology.
But it turns out that the ability to take better photos and store them in one’s pocket is only half of the equation. We’ve all been there: We want to show someone an older photo of that Halloween costume or that trip to Paris or that street art from a few years back, and despite
camera rolls’ perfunctory affordance to sort images by location or date, the virtual ‘shoebox’ of chronological thumbnail images leaves a lot to be desired.
Conversely—and arguably worse still—we often forget about older photos and videos as it gets buried under the figurative weight of new memories. As with ring-bound albums, one-hour-photo envelopes and dusty shoeboxes, we simply neglect to resurface bygone years despite the easy access of digital storage. Sure, there are Flickr and Facebook albums full of memories, but the former rarely occasions revisiting and the latter offers far too many distractions to offer a meaningful viewing experience.
Enter the Fireside Smartframe. As with the iPod, it’s not the first device to do what it does—as you might have guessed, it’s a digital picture frame—but it is intended to be the first to do it well. Co-founder Andy Jagoe introduces it as Pandora or SONOS for photos: the former reference point has far better name recognition and captures the data-as-genome element of the playlists, but the latter is slightly more accurate in that it is a largely source-agnostic hardware (and quasi-IoT) system. He and fellow co-founder Don Lehman acknowledged as much when they demo’d the Smartframe for me last week, in anticipation of the launch of their Kickstarter campaign this morning [disclosure: Lehman has contributed to Core77 in various capacities for over a decade].
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