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Your smartwatch can tell when you’re tired, when you’re inactive, or even when you’re suffering a panic or heart attack, but there isn’t much it can do to help ameliorate or fix the condition. Most health wearables just measure and detect health stats… not many have the unique distinction of being able to cure health problems. Behold the Kineon MOVE+, a wearable light-therapy device that can reduce inflammation, heal tissues, relieve chronic pain, and accelerate recovery simply by using the power of light. Unlike painkillers that put chemicals in your bloodstream or muscle-relief sprays that are just effective on the surface, the MOVE+ is a non-invasive device that uses a combination of LED and Laser light to help heal muscle and joint pain by working on the surface as well as reaching deep into your tissues to boost recovery. It does so simply by strapping onto the part of your body that’s facing pain or inflammation and using dual light therapy to boost blood flow to the area to help you recover faster and relieve chronic pain.

Designer: Kineon Design Labs

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Light therapy as a method to treat chronic pain has been used for decades now (it was invented back in 1903), although it’s still mostly confined to hospitals and clinics. Not only does the MOVE+ make light therapy more accessible by turning it into a portable, wireless, modular product, but it also makes it doubly effective by relying not just on one type of light, but rather on two different light wavelengths that serve their own individual purposes.

The way the MOVE+ device works is by using a combination of LED and Laser light to go both wide and deep. Visible red light emitted by the LEDs covers a large area on the surface of your skin, stimulating collagen production, improving blood circulation, and reducing inflammation. However, the Laser light works rather differently by penetrating as much as 6mm below the skin’s surface to target deep-seated chronic pain, like osteoarthritis or cartilage damage with pinpointed accuracy to speed up the regeneration of damaged cells.

A lot of props go to the MOVE+’s brilliantly modular design that lets you conveniently use it on any part of your body that’s experiencing pain. Made to be used on your knees, shoulder, elbows, neck, thigh, stomach, or any other part of your body, the MOVE+ comes in a set of three devices that can be operated independently or strapped together to create a larger therapy wearable that can be secured or draped around any part of your body experiencing chronic pain. The MOVE+ device is portable and works wirelessly, allowing you to carry it around and use it anywhere – after work, a game, or an exceptionally grueling workout.

Despite the advanced science and technology behind it, the Move+ is dead-simple to use and convenient to carry around. You can wrap all three modules around your knee, leg, or arm, and simply relax while it does its trick. Or you could place the unbuckled Move+ over your shoulder, on your back, or even around your head, basically on any part of your body that’s hurting or needs repairs. The MOVE+ is also safe to use without needing to consult a medical professional, given that it’s non-invasive and doesn’t require you to ingest any medicines. Simply put it on and use it at the dosage cycle recommended for your condition/injury… and feel free to ditch those ice bags, heat packs, or burning balms!

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Depicting the position of 200,000 galaxies (each represented by a single dot), a new interactive map by astronomers at Johns Hopkins University lets viewers gaze from the Milky Way through one large slice of the perceptible universe. Two decades of data collected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey was transformed into the color-coded map by artist and designer Nikita Shtarkman. “In this map, we are just a speck at the very bottom, just one pixel. And when I say we, I mean our galaxy, the Milky Way which has billions of stars and planets,” Brice Ménard, a professor at Johns Hopkins, says. “We are used to seeing astronomical pictures showing one galaxy here, one galaxy there or perhaps a group of galaxies. But what this map shows is a very, very different scale. From this speck at the bottom, we are able to map out galaxies across the entire universe, and that says something about the power of science.” Read more, watch an informative video and scope out several photos by Shtarkman at designboom.

Image by B. Ménard & N. Shtarkman/Johns Hopkins University

One of my favorite design studio Nendo recently created a gold-colored Christmas tree for the Tokyo Midtown shopping center in Roppongi, Tokyo, putting the whole of Tokyo and me in a Christmassy mood! The beautiful tree features kinetic cutouts, which were designed to mimic “sparkling lights”.

Designer: Nendo

Standing tall at 7.5 meters, the stunning Christmas tree has been placed in the middle of the shopping center and boasts a polyhedral surface crafted from flat metal panels that create a pyramid as a result of being bolted together. The panels feature little fluttering stars, and behind them are positioned 416 small and compact fans. The fans have been designed to move the panels in different patterns – up, down, and across the tree.

“The pieces not only sway and move with the wind but can also stop swinging in the air catching the wind at the programmed timing. By continuously receiving a certain amount of airflow, the pieces also float upward in a sustained manner,” said Nendo. The star-shaped patterns were designed to resemble sparkling lights and seemed to be swirling or flowing rhythmically around the tree, in a mesmerizing up-and-down pattern. Cutouts in the same color, that is matte champagne gold, have been hung from the ceiling.

“The theme glitter in the air translates to creating the uplifting and shimmering atmosphere, the very essence of Christmas, by literally generating ‘glitters’ by ‘air’,” said Nendo. These glittery and beautiful pieces are positioned on Tokyo Midtown’s garden terrace as well as its galleria and atrium terraces.

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Colombian architecture studio Cinco Sólidos has renovated a gabled house in the mountains outside of Medellín for musician J Balvin to appear as a “house in the air”.

The studio used the footprint of a previous construction when designing Casa Aire, which was designed to make the home appear separate from a steep site.

“In terms of its conceptual development, the house revolves around the interest of expressing lightness and buoyancy as principles,” said the studio.

“The design ensures that its interior and exterior are perceived as separate from the land on which it sits, as if it were a house in the air.”

With 1,593 square metres of living area, the house was built parallel to a slope, having a series of rooms that connect to cantilevered pool decks.

The home was clad in concrete panelling with steel accents that were painted a light green and consists of a series of gabled volumes with large swathes of glazing.

Cinco Sólidos took cues from Japanese architecture and included a series of reflecting pools and courtyards. At the entrance, a series of steps leads across a reflecting pool transversed by a concrete wall with a circular void in the middle that acts as a window to a single bonsai tree in the middle of the pool.

“Raw materials, reflections against mirrors of water, dry gardens, colored light and furniture combined with the elevation of its geography makes the house an element that detaches from the earth and floats,” said Cinco Sólidos.

The front of the home has solid concrete walls that frame a recessed entryway with a prominent sliding door.

A glass-lined interior courtyard that hosts another tree can be seen from the front, opening a direct line of sight between the driveway and the landscape.

This courtyard is central to the interior spaces as it creates a focal point in the public areas, positioned between the living and dining rooms.

From here, a hallway, glazed on one side to frame the bonsai reflection pool, heads away from the public areas towards the home’s three bedrooms.

At the courtyard and entryway, the roofline is flat, so the gabled forms of the adjacent public and private programs could have clerestory windows.

In the living room, where there is an open-concept kitchen, the high gabled ceiling with exposed board-form concrete slopes down toward the floor-to-ceiling opening that connects the living room to the terraces. Curved Pierre Paulin couches were placed around custom, low-lying coffee tables.

At the far side of the room, another wall has floor-to-ceiling glass to further the floating sensation of the interiors.

The light green accents on the exterior steel girders were continued on the inside, which also features hardwood flooring with natural finishes.

The green also appears on an expansive shading screen that can be pulled across the whole of the rear facade to shade the interiors and provide protection from the elements.

For the terraces, awnings with steel stilts provide a transition from the indoors to the outdoors. Wooden decks with a series of pools, garden boxes and recessed seating areas step down with the slope.

“Casa Aire becomes part of the client’s architectural collection,” said the studio.

“Its use depends on the place where he is and although it was planned as a secondary house, it has the equipment to become a permanent residence if desired.”

The house was designed for Jose Balvin, known by the moniker J Balvin, who is internationally recognised for his contributions to the Reggaeton music genre.

Other projects in Colombia include a brick vacation home in the jungle by Plan:b Arquitectos and a wooden home raised above a fragile ecosystem by ZITA.

The photography is by Anna Dave unless otherwise noted.

Project credits: 

Architecture and interior design: Cinco Sólidos
Client: Jose Balvin
General contractor: Dream House

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For 15 years, photographer Peter Merts has documented people who are incarcerated as they participate in prison arts programs. The portraits, which have been released in Merts’ new book, Ex Crucible: The Passion of Incarcerated Artists, reveal new perspectives about the limits of the carceral system as well as the power of the arts. One such image depicts the theater class at Ironwood State Prison and focuses on a close-up of an actor during a performance in the commedia dell’arte style. The actor’s emotive face is the focal point of the image, attesting not only to the depth of the performance but also to the necessity of the arts and other supportive programs in fostering restorative paths for those in prisons. “By showing humanity and authenticity, originality and personality you create empathy,” says Merts. “I hope that what’s happening here is a path where we can advocate for victims without stripping the perpetrator’s humanity.” Read more at CNN.

Image courtesy of Daylight Books/Peter Merts