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Representing, supporting and celebrating the queer skate community

Jeffrey Cheung—an artist, activist and skateboarder—co-founded UNITY with Gabriel Ramirez in order to represent, support and celebrate queer skaters within a culture historically infamous for its homophobic tendencies. The skate collective organizes skate days that create safe spaces for people of all sexual orientation, gender, color, age and ability; give away decks to queer people of color; and mobilize the community for skate protests—not to mention their apparel and skateboards, all emblazoned with Cheung‘s trademark playful and somewhat contorted characters. While based in the Bay Area, UNITY has members the world over and exists for everybody who has felt they didn’t belong in the world of skateboarding. As such, teaming up with a massive brand like adidas Skateboarding means a lot for many.

The collaborative release for fall/winter 2020 celebrates the LGBTQ+ skate community and includes apparel and sneakers which are gender neutral, and the sizes reflect that, with TK TK.

While a small collection, it covers various seasons, with a reversible track jacket, hoodie, long-sleeve T-shirt, tank, button-down, and (our favorite) all-over print shorts. There are also two pairs of sneakers: a take on the Continental Vulc and the recently launched Coronado.

The collection will be live tomorrow, 28 August at adidas Skateboarding and select retailers.

Images courtesy of adidas Skateboarding

We’ve got a fair bit of time till self-driving cars begin rolling out, but the 70mai A800 surely gets us halfway there. If you really think about it, a self-driving car is just an automobile that operates on its own, using data from cameras and sensors around it, right? The A800 from 70mai basically sits at the halfway mark, fulfilling the ‘data from cameras and sensors’ bit. Equipped with dual-vision 4K cameras, the A800 captures the front and back of your car in stunning detail using 140° wide-angle lenses. Fitted with advanced features too, this dual-dashcam boasts of clear night-vision, and even an AI that lets you be aware of vehicles around you, how close they are, and if they’re changing lanes. Think of the A800 as an extra pair of eyes that help you drive smarter, better, and help take care of your car when you’re not around… oh yes, it works with any car.

Think of the A800 as a dashcam, reverse-cam, security cam, and an AI-assisted driving experience bundled into one package. Open up this package, and you’ve got two cameras (one that mounts on the front, and one on the rear windshield) and a monitor that sits right near your central rear-view mirror. Setting up the A800 is as simple as assembling the three components in place and switching them on. Once the A800 is powered, it begins capturing everything within its 140° field of view, on both the front and back. The monitor allows you to toggle between camera displays with a simple button, while that broad field of view allows you to see what’s around you like never before. The A800 even has night-vision with 3D dynamic noise reduction, giving you clear footage no matter the time of day, and a built-in GPS chip to record your route as the cameras capture your surroundings. The A800 even works as an extra pair of eyes when you’re away from your car. It records 24/7, and comes with a collision sensor that instantly begins capturing your surroundings if anyone accidentally or intentionally tries to damage your ride. This data gets stored in an immutable ‘evidence’ folder, and can easily be accessed via 70mai’s smartphone app. When you’re inside, riding the car, the A800 works proactively to prevent collisions by using its AI to inform you if you’re too near a car, or if a car ahead of or behind you changes lanes. This Advanced Driver-Assistance System (or ADAS if you’re fancy) empowers you with a sense of awareness, taking the element of stress and surprise out of driving, keeping you mindful, present, and safe. At the end of the day, everything gets recorded and stored locally to an SD card too, and video logs can easily be accessed using the 70mai app… your insurance agent will love you, I promise.

Until algorithms (and federal law) become advanced enough to allow cars to operate on their own, automobiles will always need humans behind their wheels. The 70mai A800 dashcam just gives you a sixth-sense and an extra pair of eyes while you drive, as you park, and even when your car’s sitting in a spot while you’re away. I’d call that pretty damn smart.

Designer: 70mai Design

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70mai A800 –  Dual-vision 4K Dashcam for 24h Guard

The 70mai A800 is an in-car digital video recorder that delivers day-and-night cinema-quality (up to 4k resolution) images in dual vision. It’s equipped with ADAS (Advanced Driving Assistant System) tech and night vision that boosts your driving safety. When the vehicle is parked, the parking mode will monitor the car’s surroundings and automatically start recording if any collision is detected. Recordings are stored locally and can be viewed in-app for on-site download and instant sharing.

Dual-vision With Cinema-quality Video

Up to 4K Resolution with 140°FOV – Built around a powerful Sony IMX 415 CMOS image sensor, the A800 dashcam records 4K UHD videos with a wide-angle 140° FOV. Combined with the optional rear cam, every important detail in the front or rear of the vehicle can be recorded clearly to provide irrefutable video evidence or capture the landscape along your journey with cinema-quality video.

Super Night Vision with 3D DNR – The A800 achieves clear images even in low-light conditions using a 3D DNR (Dynamic Noise Reduction) tech, F/1.8 aperture lens and a smart algorithm that significantly reduces image noise and automatically adjusts the exposure balance.

3-inch HD Display Screen & One-button Switch – View your car’s surroundings easily an with a simple press, you can easily switch between the front and the rear views.

Boosted Driving Safety with ADAS

When you start the car, A800 automatically begins recording and enables the ADAS (Advanced Driver-Assistance System) that will assist you while driving with lane-departure and forward collision warnings that help you avoid accidents.

Lane-departure Warning (LDW) System – Uses the A800 camera to monitor the lane markings to make sure the car remains safely in the lane of travel. In case you are distracted and begin to drift, the LDW system uses and audio alarm to warn you, for a safe driving every day.

Forward-collision Warning (FCW) System – A800 automatically monitors the car driving in front of you. If the vehicles get too close, too quickly, for instance in the case of a sudden stop by the leading car, A800 will warn you with an audible alarm. This system is especially useful in the stop-and-go traffic during busy commute times.

In-car Guardian for 24/7 Protection

After parking, the Parking Mode is automatically activated. Using a 3-axis gravity sensor, A800 can detect any hit-and-run collision and immediately begin recording to capture valuable video evidence.

GPS Built-in

A800 also acts as an accurate trip computer, storing data that includes mileage, range, average speed, max speed, duration and more that can be viewed conveniently in-app. It’s great for long trips and to record the exact location of an accident if one should occur.

Loop Recording & Evidence Protection

The A800 records video on a loop and stores it locally on a Micro SD memory card (up to 128GB supported) while driving. This ensures that in the event of an accident, the video evidence will be captured and then safely secured from overwriting. To check video at any time, simply open the App to playback or download the videos free of charge.

In-app Access & Instant Share

No network is necessary to connect your smartphone with A800. It seamlessly connects using its own Wi-Fi for full instant access to stored videos. The dashcam also acts as a digital camera, controlled with your phone to capture any picture or view along your route.

3 Min Installation

Because it requires no special wiring, the A800 can be installed in minutes. Simply attach to the windscreen, connect to power at the vehicles 12v power point, download the 70mai app and connect with your smartphone using built-in Wi-Fi.

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Product design is almost always influenced by the culture of the region it comes from. Sometimes even defining that culture. We, humans, have been making things that suit our lifestyle needs for ages, and timeless objects have been seamlessly amalgamating in our ways of life ever since. And when there is more than one way of doing something, a certain subconscious understanding develops of performing something in set ways. The result is an apparent and contrasting style of life involving humans and the things around them. But, every once in a while something comes along that changes the status quo. It is either something completely new or a confluence of many things we are already used to.

Designer Estab Han has observed something very similar and created a fusion of two very distinct settings human beings are used to in the context of eating while seated. He has created a product that brings together different aspects of seating merged into each other creating a new human experience built upon old methods – bringing cross-legged sitting to a modern stool design and is influenced by the environment of the Eulji-ro region of Seoul, Korea. Although not limited to that region, a very common product used by many small restaurants for outside seating is the ubiquitous four-legged stool. Whereas quite prominent in eastern cultures, another style of eating especially while inside the restaurant is the cross-legged seated position. It is the standard practice there in restaurants and at homes so much so that they call it the aristocratic method.

Han has brought together these two styles of seating, the old and the new, and created a novel hybrid stool that caters to both of them. The product, called the ‘Eulji-ro Stool’ has two parts, one a standard four-legged stool and the other, also a stool but with a circular profile and a little cutaway section on the top. You can use the ‘Eulji-ro Stool’ in two ways – you can use both the parts separately if there are more people. And when you want to sit cross-legged, you can combine the two by inserting the leg from one into the cut section of the other. This inserting of the stool keeps the design in place while you adjust yourself while sitting. Moreover, the stools are designed to be stackable and hence can be tucked away inside the restaurant at the end of the day. With this fine combination of different styles, you can now experience eating in the aristocratic ways anywhere!

Designer: Estab Han of Weekend-Works

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features images of the Rose Garden at the White House following a recent makeover by first lady Melania Trump.

Created with landscape architecture firms Perry Guillot and Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, the first lady redesigned the Rose Garden with a look that combines largely green shrubbery with white and pastel flowers.

The move angered some on social media who described it as “upsetting” and the result “an uninteresting patch of lawn”.

But not everyone agrees. One Dezeen reader said, “Melania Trump could announce the cure for cancer and people would complain about it.”

Other stories in this week’s newsletter include a holiday home by Ström Architects in the Isle of Wight, a spandex sanitary pouch for women in the armed forces and details of BIG’s plan to build three islands off the shore of Penang Island in Malaysia.

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For over ten years, Canadian mechanical engineer Jonathan Tippett has dreamt of a future where mecha/mechs–giant, human-controlled exoskeletons–are a reality. Now he and his company, Furrion Exo-Bionics, have put a start date on that future, and it’s right now.

Their creation, the Prosthesis, is a gigantic, 9,000-pound quadruped with linebacker proportions up top but surprisingly dainty ankles down below.

As it’s surprisingly nimble for its size, Tippett envisions their future in a recreational racing league (although he’s also fitted the machine with tusks, in order to conduct testing while helping out at the local junkyard).

A league of race-ready Prostheses will require pilots, and those pilots will need training on how to operate the things. To that end Tippett has launched a highly unusual Kickstarter, one where you pledge CAD $2,500 (USD $1,903) to $13,000 (USD $9,898) to strap in for single or multiple training sessions:

What I found intriguing is how Tippett decided to handle the human-machine interface. There are no joysticks, levers or steering wheels to drive the machine. Instead the pilot’s limbs are sheathed within controls that simply allow them their normal range of motion; the mechanics then transfer that motion, times a power factor of 50, to the machine’s limbs.

Here’s an explanatory video:

The Prosthesis Alpha Mech Pilot Program has already been successfully Kickstarted. If you’re interested in one of the training slots, at press time there were just ten left, with 35 days left to pledge.