Hasta La Ideas

If you’ve ever used a power strip or extension cord, you know that it can be a crazy game of Tetris with all those awkward shaped plugs! Inevitably, you’ll sacrifice space on the strip just to make room for oversized plugs that cover other outlets. Designed with this problem in mind, the O’ket power strip makes it possible to combine and switch up your plug arrangements. The sockets are perfectly spaced to accommodate varying sizes and shapes. Place your plugs horizontally or vertically to make room for more!

Designers: Sungick Jo, Hyeonjin See & SunKyung Bae

Quel est le futur de la chaussure de sport en France et à travers le monde ? C’est la question que s’est posée la marque adidas pour concevoir une ligne de production de baskets ultra-innovantes et singulières : la SPEEDFACTORY.

Au premier abord, la série AM4 produite par la SPEEDFACTORY propose une chaussure souple et légère aux lignes design et épurées, mais en réalité, son concept va bien plus loin que cela. adidas a imaginé un modèle unique qui se conçoit à partir des données physiologiques, corporelles et géographiques des athlètes.

Après un scan rapide qui analyse les données personnelles de l’athlète, la SPEEDFACTORY, véritable usine du futur avec une chaîne de production ultra rapide, adapte puis conçoit le produit en un temps record.

Le modèle AM4LDN (adidas Made For London) est le premier a être sorti de la SPEEDFACTORY installée en Allemagne. Londres étant la première des six villes clés à faire l’expérience d’une chaussure de sport adaptée aux besoins individuels, bientôt rejoint par Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai et Paris.

Le 26 octobre prochain, le projet adidas SPEEDFACTORY s’arrête à Paris pour concevoir le modèle AM4PAR. Du 27 au 30 octobre, les amateurs de sport, d’innovation et de technologie de pointe pourront venir expérimenter la SPEEDFACTORY sur le parvis de Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, et vivre un moment unique entre futur de la conception et avenir de la production.

Les visiteurs pourront tester le programme d’analyse corporelle et définir leur profil sportif, ils pourront également découvrir les tous premiers modèles sortis de la SPEEDFACTORY.

We’ve been waiting for this international giant robot fight since 2015, and this month it finally happened. To refresh your memory, American robotics firm MegaBots challenged Japan’s Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a mecha-vs.-mecha fight, the challenge was accepted, and trash-talking ensued.

To be honest, I was a little worried that this duel was going to suck.

I figured there’s no way these guys would actually deploy giant chainsaw swords and fire projectiles that could do any kind of actual damage, and I also thought that a concern for safety would limit the fighting tactics they’d use.

I was wrong. These guys aren’t messing around. And during the two duels, the fear of the pilots inside the cockpits is palpable.

I don’t want to spoil anything, and I’ve cut the video into the two duels. Here’s the first, which is practically over before it begins:

Here’s the second, which is filled with some surprises and OH SHIT moments:

I eagerly await the rematch!

by Leora Novick

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It may look like a high-end contemporary villa, but this rectilinear building is actually a sales office for a dairy farm near Sydney.

Designed by local studio Those Architects, the single-storey building was designed to help real-estate firm Stockland attract a buyer to the former agricultural site, which it believes could be transformed into a new residential community.

The aim was to create a structure that reflected the character of the area, through the use of multi-tonal but modest materials.

The design team describes it as “a tactile piece of architecture in its own right”.

“We see this as a discrete work of architecture, designed to inform the potential purchaser about the place where they may live, and how it might feel to live there,” said Ben Mitchell, director of Those Architects.

The building features wooden walls with a black stain finish. The surfaces that frame the entrance are highlighted by the addition of brushed copper panels, which allows these surfaces to catch the light.

Oiled hardwood floors run through the building’s interior and also form a deck outside, creating spaces for occupants to enjoy the rural scenery of the former dairy pasture. They connect up with a concrete path that connects the entrance with the road.

Other details include a recessed glass wall that is hidden away at the building’s rear and sheltered beneath the overhanging roof.

“It’s all about the architecture,” added Mitchell. “So, for example, unlike most sales offices, it has no signage, and is carefully calibrated to convey an experience of its place.”

Mitchell founded Those Architects in 2012, in partnership with architect Simon Addinall. The studio’s other completed projects include a suburban Sydney house featuring secret storage and a pivoting garden window, and a Chicago office with pegboard walls and a baseball batting cage.

The Dairy was designed and built in just nine months and boasts an area of 200 square metres.

Once the property has been sold, the intention is for the building to become a cafe and meeting place for the new residents.

Photography is by Luc Remond.

Project credits:

Architect: Those Architects
Project team: Ben Mitchell, Simon Addinall, Emiliano Miranda, Luke Hallaways
Client: Stockland
Lighting: Tovo

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