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The fact that Netflix absolutely dominated the Golden Globes should be proof enough that the future of movies and entertainment is in-home. With more shows that you can humanely watch, online streaming services are rapidly becoming the new cineplexes and a good VR headset is the equivalent of a private screening, but good VR headsets are as expensive as Smart TVs, and more often than not, aren’t high-definition.

The fundamental reason why VR headsets are expensive is because they’re literally head-worn computers designed not for entertainment, but for productivity. It’s the equivalent of having to buy an expensive enterprise laptop just to watch Netflix. What the GOOVIS Young changes about VR is that it embraces the technology for entertainment purposes, and does it in the best way possible… not by being a face-mounted computer, but rather a face-mounted display that’s compatible with practically any of your devices. With a 1080p display on the inside that’s designed to feel like a theater with an 800-inch screen, the GOOVIS Young is a universal VR display you can connect to your phone, laptop, tablet, set-top box, or even your console, allowing it to act as a dedicated display for everything between working, gaming, watching movies, browsing the internet, or even doing the odd stuff like tapping into your drone’s camera for incredible HD POV-ing.

The GOOVIS Young comes with a cable that connects via USB-C to a wide host of devices, acting as a display for them… much like how you plug a pair of headphones into your device for dedicated audio, the GOOVIS Young does the same, but for dedicated video.

By cutting the clutter and not having its own CPU, motherboard, graphics card, and memory, and by purely being a high-definition display, the GOOVIS Young reduces its design footprint and comes in a slick form factor that folds up to be thin enough to slip into your backpack. No larger than a pair of headphones, the GOOVIS Young is the kind of headset you can carry around with you to work, on an airplane, or even use at home. With two high definition displays for each eye, the GOOVIS Young feels like being in front of your own dedicated OLED TV, except that it’s nearly $2000 cheaper. Given its compact size, the GOOVIS Young also comes with focus-adjustability, allowing you to wear it without spectacles, and a built-in proximity sensor that turns the display off when you fold the GOOVIS Young upward, or temporarily take it off.

And yes… the GOOVIS Young also addresses the elephant in the room, that is the current global predicament we’re in. I definitely believe this home-ridden situation we’re in is a temporary one, but it’s had some undeniable effects on the entertainment industry, causing a rapid pivot to home-streaming services. By being an independent, universal display for any device, even literally your set-top box, the GOOVIS Young promises a high-definition private-screening experience that’s portable, highly-compatible, comfortable, and most importantly, affordable. Take that, Oculus and HTC.

Designer: O-VIEW Technology

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GOOVIS Young – Personal Mobile Cinema

Be anywhere and plug-in to your phone, computer, console, or more to live immersed in big-screen quality entertainment with a head-mounted display no bigger than a pair of ski goggles.

It’s the most comfortable HMD yet, with brilliant color and twin 1920×1080 M-OLED displays for an astonishing 800″ virtual screen experience viewed from 66′ away.

Plug & Play

Universal connectivity with USB-C. Plug-in your device and unlock your favorite TV shows, movies, sports, music, games and more. No app, or charging required. Use their video adapter to connect to HDMI.

PPD (Pixel Per Degree)

Left: GOOVIS Young PPD=42. Right: Other Brands PPD<20.

PPD is the key for sharpness. GOOVIS is four times more sharpness than other VR.

Cinema Experience

800 inches of immersive detail in brilliant color.

A Sony OLED TV for each eye.

Glasses Free

Precisely adjust the display to your eyesight with diopter and interpupillary distance adjustments.

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Design competitions, televised art classes, virtual parties, online orations and more ways to feel connected

George Nakashima’s Children Live Within and Preserve His Design Legacy

Japanese-American architect and furniture designer George Nakashima’s New Hope, Pennsylvania property houses more than 19 buildings by the craftsman. Two of them are homes to his daughter, Mira (who runs the grounds) and his son, Kevin—an unofficial keeper of the family’s saga. A prolific creator, Nakashima turned from commercial architecture to midcentury folk craft. During his life, he transformed walnut and maple, cherry and redwood slabs into furniture that bucked the trend of disposable modernity. In the homes of his children, Nakashima’s work remains preserved and, in turn, so does the heritage that inspired him. Read more at The New York Times.

Virtual Parties Draw 100k+ Guests

Epitomizing a new type of digital togetherness, DJ sets on Instagram Live now draw hundreds of thousands of guests. After the cancellation of gigs at South by Southwest and Coachella, LA-based D-Nice set up a booth in his home, selected over eight hours of music (ranging from Al Green and Mary J. Blige to Travis Scott and Sister Sledge) and pressed record. His session, affectionately called D-Nice Homeschool (aka Club Quarantine), reached over 100k viewers from all over the world. At one point the stream hit a peak of nearly 175k viewers (breaking Instagram’s viewership record)—a moment we ourselves took part in. Our current, collective circumstance makes events like this possible and important—and are a reminder that we’re part of a far-reaching community. Read more at The New York Times.

First-Ever Recordings of Penguins Vocalizing Underwater

For the first time ever, scientists have recorded the sounds of penguins communicating underwater. While it’s commonly understood that the flightless birds chirp to one another on land to ask for help with food and foraging, the underwater calls are less understood as researchers found that penguins were “often hunting alone when making their calls, suggesting they might have been directed at their prey instead.” Many of the penguins emit  noises just before catching their prey, suggesting it could be in order to stun or scare them. But, as study author Pierre Pistorius (biologist at Nelson Mandela University) says, perhaps “they’re just penguins’ way of saying, ‘Hooray, food!’” Read more at Smithsonian Magazine.

Grayson Perry’s TV Art Class

Brilliant British artist Grayson Perry (CBE RA) is teaming up with Channel 4 for a television show instructing viewers how to hone their own creative skills. With Grayson’s Art Club, the beloved artist will offer tips on painting, drawing and sculpting. He then hopes to display the work in a future exhibition. Perry tells the Evening Standard, “Accessibility is a part of what I want to do which is make art an ordinary part of life but a stimulating part of life. I’m not really talking to the art world, I’m more interested in the average Joe on the sofa.” Find out more at the Evening Standard.

Artist Kate Shepherd’s Video Walk-Through of Her Galerie Lelong Exhibit, “Surveillance”

“While you’re looking at the paintings, they’re reflecting you,” artist Kate Shepherd explains in her three-minute walk through of Surveillance, her captivating, highly conceptual show at NYC’s Galerie Lelong & Co. Shepherd began this series in 2017, with the intention to have the shifting, reflective quality of each painting’s enamel surface be the subject itself. She refers to the process behind the works as puzzles she needed to complete—and some are born from what the gallery refers to as a referential loop. On pause for global health concerns, the exhibition (and more on the meticulous, thoughtful process) can be accessed through Shepherd’s video on Vimeo, as well as at the Galerie Lelong & Co site.

“Fountain of Hygiene” Challenges Creatives to Rethink Hand Sanitizer

London-based studio Bompas & Parr has teamed up with the Design Museum to launch a competition called Fountain of Hygiene for which creatives are to rethink and redesign hand sanitizer packaging. The winning creations will be displayed in a future exhibition (both in real life and online) and then auctioned off, with proceeds donated to The British Red Cross. Design Museum director Tim Marlow says, “Design has an important role in helping to solve many of the challenges that we face in daily life” with the overall goal for the project to encourage “new behavioral norms which benefit the ongoing health of global society.” The competition closes 29 March, and entrants are encouraged to design for sanitizer pumps, but also “sprays, wipes, dispense units or even gestures and rituals.” Read more at It’s Nice That.

Watch the Animal Kingdom Online

Whether it’s elephants gathered around a watering hole at the border of South Africa and Mozambique or jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, creatures continue their day-to-day lives, and we can tune in thanks to various livestreams. Some platforms play constantly, while others are open during specific hours—regardless, each serves as a welcome relief from our immediate worlds, reassuring us that life goes on. Find streams featuring bears, jellyfish, penguins, elephants, manatees and more magnificent creatures at Atlas Obscura.

Simon Freund’s “Mit Oder Ohne” Memory Game

Simon Freund’s newest photo series, Mit Oder Ohne (which translates to “With or Without”), features 32 Polaroid photos taken with flash and those same 32 scenes captured once again without flash. Rather than present the two side-by-side, Freund turned his collection into a memory game. The game—accessible online or in print on original Ravensburger memory cards—comes in 16, 36 or 64 squares and showcases the difference flash can make when shooting the same still twice. It’s also an entertaining way to occupy a few spare minutes, exercise one’s memory, and support an independent photographer. Play the game at Freund’s site.

Sir James Dyson and Other Entrepreneurs Produce Ventilators

Corporations helmed by some of the world’s most successful executives are pivoting their businesses to meet the demands of hospitals facing the current global health crisis. Dyson (named for its founder Sir James Dyson) successfully designed and will manufacture 15,000 ventilators in response to a plea from UK’s Department for Health and Social Care. A spokesperson for the company says, “We have deployed expertise in air movement, motors, power systems, manufacturing and supply chain and are working with medical technology and development company, TTP—The Technology Partnership, based in Cambridge.” Additionally, in the USA, Elon Musk guaranteed the delivery of 1,200 ventilators to Los Angeles from China’s overstock by purchasing them outright. Read more at Forbes.

Free Live Conversations at “TED Connects: Community and Hope”

With a captivating roster of speakers that aims to tackle topics plaguing the world at large, the series TED Connects: Community and Hope will provide free, daily conversations this week—commencing 23 March with Harvard Medical School’s Susan A David, PhD on emotional agility. Bill Gates will follow up his much-discussed TED Talk with more insight on the healthcare system on Tuesday 24 March. And the rest of the week will feature Gary Liu, CEO of the South China Morning Post; Seth Berkley, epidemiologist and head of GAVI, the vaccine alliance; and Priya Parker, author, The Art of Gathering. Head of TED Chris Anderson will host the series, which is moderated by Whitney Pennington Rodgers, TED’s current affairs curator. Visit the TED Connects site to catch each conversation.

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Lexus being the luxury brand of Toyota, you know it gets the best of Toyota’s engineering and R&D skills. But when a Toyota-sponsored project creates a Lexus with a shape-shifting outdoor, we take notice! Named as the Lexus Hikari Concept, the design plays with light and its impact on the design. Hikari literally means ‘light’ in Japanese and the designer, in this case, was exceptionally inspired by the architectural classic – The White U House by Toyo Ito. What intrigued the designer, Hanzhengyi (Leo) Pan, is the way the U-shaped courtyard created an intriguing play of light within the house. It is that contrast of light and shadow that is incorporated into this concept. And it truly is mesmerizing!

Let’s begin with the shapeshifting feature – there are 2 main forms of the car’s exterior – one that allows light and the other restricts light, creating a comfortable cocoon inside the car. The exterior was imagined using Toyoda Gosei’s “e-rubber”, a next-generation material that holds together a surface while allowing it to bend without any visible creases. The flexible nature of the e-rubber lets the exterior change and control the amount of light passing through the oval structure of the transparent roof. This directly affects the user riding in the car, creating a harmonious connection between the exterior and interior of the car and its user, all of it using the principle of light. The renders showcase this to be an autonomous driving vehicle, so the car holds ample space for the users with the motor at the front, hydrogen tank at the tail end, and the bottom is lined with the fuel cells.

Retaining iconic Lexus design language, the concept holds true to the assertive L-finesse design philosophy with its spindle grille shape connecting the four tires. With no visible door and windows, it is the roof of this car that controls the ambiance. Expand the exterior to cover the roof and limit the light, letting the rider rest in the comforting shade. Close or contract the exterior, the rooftop gets exposed creating a bright, sunny ambiance inside, making the interior comfortable to work, study or even have a meeting. With Toyo Ito’s White U being an almost spiritual architecture by design, the Lexus Hikari tries to develop and maintain the same spiritual connection between all things man-made and natural, playfully interacting to deliver a calm, focused and balanced experience to the user.

Designer: Hanzhengyi (Leo) Pan

The Exterior

The cabin is wrapped by a shapeshifting outer shell that changes its shape while creating a new Lexus brand signature. It also controls how much light going into the cabin.

The Interior

The interior can be controlled by shape-shifting the exterior – making it light up to help the users work or dim out if the user wants to relax.

The Inspiration

The White U House was designed by the famous Japanese architect Toyo Ito in 1976 for his older sister, who had just lost her husband to cancer. Built in the center of Tokyo, it was demolished in 1997.

The Design Process

Aimed to evolve the Lexus design language that creates intimate relationships and experiences with the user, the design fosters calm, balance and focus in an otherwise chaotic world.

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This week on Dezeen, Carlo Ratti designed an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients from shipping containers and Dyson prepared to provide 15,000 ventilators for the NHS.

Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota designed a series of interconnected intensive care unit (ICU) pods from shipping containers, which could be added to hospitals to increase their capacity.

A prototype of the pods, named Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments (CURA), is being built at a hospital in Milan, Italy.

Industrial design brand Dyson also announced this week that it has developed a ventilator, which it plans to produce 15,000 units of in the following weeks.

It took just 10 days for Dyson to design the CoVent ventilator, after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson contacted the company to help meet the demand caused by the pandemic.

Danish startup Stykka shared a design for a simple flat-pack workstation, called the #StayTheFuckHome Desk, which those in need can easily assemble from three pieces of folded cardboard.

Architectural designers Ivo Tedbury and Freddie Hong have also developed a 3D-printed device that can be attached to door handles to enable hands-free opening, to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Ukranian architect Sergey Makhno wrote about how our homes will change once the coronavirus pandemic is over, after extended periods of self-isolation have affected our habits.

His forecasted changes include people preferring houses over apartments, wanting to become self-sufficient with their own water supply and heating, and more attention placed on creating a workplace at home.

Dezeen’s editor Tom Ravenscroft predicted that the huge amount of people being forced to work-from-home will have long-term impacts on how companies approach remote working.

Graphic designer Jure Tovrljan rethought iconic logos including Starbucks, Nike and Mastercard to show how the pandemic is affecting current life.

While cartoonist Toby Morris and microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles created playful animated illustrations of non-contact greetings as well as graphs depicting how the exponential spread of the virus can be slowed.

Elsewhere, in architecture news, OMA completed the Galleria department store in Gwanggyo, South Korea, which is clad in tessellated triangles of stone.

Wrapped around the cube-shaped building is a multifaceted-glass passage that appears to be “eating its way through the stone”.

Spanish architect Maria Milans del Bosch designed a two-storey home for herself called Camp O in Claryville, which is a two-hour drive north of New York City, nestled into a hillside to minimise the impact on the surrounding forest.

Meanwhile, Seattle architecture firm SHED designed an aluminium-clad home for a couple who wanted to live in a more compact dwelling at the end of their garden, in order to rent out their main residence.

Other projects popular with Dezeen readers this week were a micro guesthouse in Seoul with just one room, an apartment in Kyiv that has cobalt-blue curtains in place of walls, and a Barbican flat in London that can transform into a ballet studio thanks to shapeshifting furniture.

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Somewhere down the road, we grew up and stopped using pencil-boxes, but we never stopped needing a nice kit to store our small trinkets. TheBlackCanvas’s leather and felt organizer is most accurately described as a ‘stationery box for an adult’s modern stationery’. It comes with a fabulous looking veggie-tanned leather outer and a felt-lined inner that lets you stash a power bank or hard drive, as well as store cables, earphones, pen-drives, or even a stylus in its loops. Fold it over, secure the push-clip in place, and you’ve got a neat organizer with all your work-essentials and productivity EDC all contained in a rather premium, more contemporarily-relevant ‘stationery box’ that you can either carry in your hand or slip right into your backpack for later use!

Designer: TheBlackCanvas