Les créateurs de la boutique en ligne aoku 3D ont réuni divers designers originaires des quatre coins du monde pour créer une collection de bijoux quelque peu inhabituelle. Le résultat mêle bagues, bracelets ou colliers représentant les signes du zodiac chinois : rat, boeuf, tigre, lapin, dragon, serpent, cheval, chèvre, singe, coq, chien et cochon. Notez qu’une partie des bénéfices sera reversée à Orangutan Outreach et à WildAid.
Google has upgraded its thrifty cardboard VR headset with a fabric version named Daydream View, which is designed to work with the company’s first own-brand smartphone (+ movie).
The Daydream View virtual reality kit consists of a headset and controller.
The headset is made with soft, breathable fabric and is designed to fit over eyeglasses. The minimal controller has sensors to mimic the user’s movements and gestures.
The kit is compatible with any smartphone enabled with the company’s Daydream platform, although currently this is only the Google Pixel.
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“Our goal for Daydream is to simplify the complexity behind virtual reality,” said Google. “It should be mobile so you can easily carry it with you, and it should be friendly and accessible so everyone can enjoy using it.”
According to Google, the design of the headset is based on the “clothes we love to wear”. It is made with stretch fabric to make it more comfortable.
Technology company Mona also used fabric for its set of VR goggles, which similarly incorporate a wearer’s smartphone.
While it uses fabric, the Daydream goggles function in much the same way as the company’s cardboard headset, where the mobile phone is placed behind a latch at the front of the device.
However, the new device is able to connect wirelessly to the smartphone, bypassing the need for any cables or connectors.
When not in use, it opens up at the front to reveal a pocket designed to store the controller.
Daydream was unveiled at an event yesterday, where the company also launched its own-brand smartphone to rival Apple‘s iPhone and the connected Google Home device.
The headset will go on sale in November for £69. It will be available in three different colours – slate, snow and crimson.
The Daydream View is the latest in a growing number of virtual-reality headsets created as the technology develops. Designers have envisioned everything from hooded sweatshirts to sculptural helmets as means to immerse the wearer in virtual worlds.
The technology’s potential role in architecture and design has been much discussed, with visualisation artist Olivier Demangel of IVR Nation saying that VR would become “more powerful than cocaine”.
These predictions are now becoming more of a reality, with apps such as Google’s Tilt Brush allowing designers to walk through their sketches in 3D as they draw them.
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SiriusXM has named Michael Weiss senior advisor to advertising sales.
In this role, SiriusXM said Weiss will “be involved in expanding initiatives for both national brand advertising and digital advertising.”
Weiss previously worked for CBS Radio for two decades. He most recently served as the company’s president of sales.
Weiss reports to Bette Rockmore, SiriusXM’s senior vp of advertising and sponsor sales.
Bloomberg has named David Welch Detroit bureau chief and Craig Trudell its new U.S. auto team leader.
Welch most recently served as deputy team leader for auto coverage; Trudell as Asia auto editor.
Welch has been with Bloomberg since 1999. Trudell joined the company in 2010.
Here Jimmy DiResta makes “one of the heaviest things I’ve ever put together,” for what have to be the smallest end-users: He’s been hired by a school to create a massive outdoor chalkboard, and he starts from scratch.
There’s a good amount of planning required here, with Jimmy figuring out how the massive piece will be temporarily held in place prior to final mounting. Also check out how he improvises an improved look to the unusual-shaped mending plates:
The MFA in Products of Design program at SVA has launched a unique idea in anticipation of their annual Open House and Info Session, coming up next month on Friday, November 11th. This year they’re introducing an “Open House Design Challenge”—a chance to help people interested in attending the event, but who may not be able to afford the travel expense.
The way it works is easy: Participants choose a design challenge from the following:
• How would you design a product that tells time without using numbers?
• If Airbnb and Johnson & Johnson launched a new initiative together, what would it be?
• Invent one way to reduce implicit bias in the context of a job interview
• How can a fast food restaurant reduce the amount of garbage its customers create?
• Sketch an app that would help teenagers counter bullying
They then propose a design solution by submitting one image along with a one-paragraph text description.
The top 5 winning entrants receive expert portfolio reviews from faculty and experts, and the overall winner will receipt travel reimbursement up to $750 to come to the department’s open house in New York City!
Chair of the department Allan Chochinov explains, “We wanted to create a fun and modest way to help more people make it to our Open House event—it’s just such an ideal opportunity to see the department, meet students and faculty…really get a visceral sense of where the education takes place. But we also know that travel can be expensive.” He adds, “We’re excited to see what people come up with. This isn’t solely a skills challenge however; what we’re looking for are ingenious design approaches to interesting problems—some social, some interactive, some industrial, some business design. We tried to keep the themes multi-disciplinary, since that is what and how we teach in the PoD Masters program.”
The deadline for submitting your idea is Friday, October 21st. Find all the details at the SVA site.
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You’ve seen Styrofoam being used in packaging. Have you ever seen a product made out of Styrofoam? Airblocks are. And they’re amazingly light and sturdy. However, I digress. Styrofoam is probably the least impressive thing about the awesome Airblocks. These little badboys are programmable modular units that snap magnetically to each other. They come in Drone and Hovercraft making kits (that use the same parts). That’s where Styrofoam (technically Expanded PolyPropylene) comes in handy, with its unbelievably light weight and buoyancy abilities. A perfect learning tool for the code-curious child!
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