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Celebrating the Internet’s most valuable European players

Now in their second year, Europe’s Lovie Awards are quickly gaining momentum with a jam-packed program based around meaningful recognition of achievement in the interactive fields. In an awards-heavy industry, The Lovies—sister to the US’ Webby Awards—stand out for carefully selecting work that is as relevant now as it will be in the future. This distinction is clear even in the naming, which borrows from Ada Lovelace, the world’s first programmer who insightfully saw the computer as a tool with way more potential than simply calculating sums.

“The Lovie Awards are a pure kind of awards,” explains founder Nik Roope. He, along with a permanent panel of judges from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences will pick winners from over 80 categories, ensuring a more standardized selection process for the annual competition. “I think awards are really important,” Roope says, adding that they created The Lovies “to try to help establish what things should be the standard, and what we should celebrate.”

In the lightning-fast field of technology, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the increasing surplus of applications. Like the Gold Rush or the Industrial Revolution, this surge of digital arts and sciences is “full of brilliant inventors etc., but it’s also full of bullshit,” Roope remarks. In the same way he and his agency Poke London help clients navigate through the ever-changing digital landscape, the expert judges behind The Lovies reel it all in and decipher what will become embedded in our culture, creating “anchors” for the world to use as meaningful benchmarks for creative thinking in the digital realm.

As media partner, Cool Hunting is excited to see what The Lovies will put forward this year. There are still a few days left to submit an entry, which is “open to all European organizations and individuals involved in designing, building, managing, maintaining, marketing or promoting Websites, Interactive Advertising & Media, Online Film & Video, and Mobile & App content for European business, consumer or general audiences.” Also keep an eye out for the awards themselves, taking place this November during Internet Week Europe.

Burning Cup offers a solution to reheating or microwaving your tepid coffee (or beverage) and losing its flavor. The cup prevents the drink from cooling down due to heat release to the outside. It uses sodium acetate to get the heat going. This what the designer says, “The sodium acetate contained in the inside of the cup design can regulate the heat of beverage. The liquid solution breaks the balance of liquid state with a tiny impact and hardens it solid, and it then generates heat momentarily.”

This heat generated by such an impact maintains the temperature of the beverage in the cup for a longer period of time. Every time you feel the beverage going a bit cold, simply crackle the sodium acetate from the outside once again and restart the heating process.

Designer: Ryan Jongwoo Choi

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A gasoline-powered car that never has to stop for gas is impossible to create. However, a team of Japanese university researchers are hoping to create an electric-powered car that never has to stop for recharging. The solution isn’t easy, requiring massive infrastructure changes, but they’re proving it’s at least possible with their EVER (Electric Vehicle, Electric Road) concept, which sends electricity from the roadway into a moving car through the tires.

At a demonstration last week in Japan, a team led by Takashi Ohira, Toyohashi University of Technology professor of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, used a mock-up to demonstrate that the conductive properties of concrete could be exploited to send power into a vehicle through the tires. There are still plenty of hurdles to clear—the relatively paltry amount of electricity used to fire up the lightbulb in the demo would need to be increased a hundredfold to get through the 20 centimeters of concrete in your average Japanese roadway—but we find the concept fascinating and with far-reaching potential.

Ah Tyco, if only you guys had lasted long enough to see the day…

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« MTV Days Festival & Conference » est un festival unique organisé en Italie à Turin pendant 3 jours. Afin d’en faire la promotion, la chaîne nous propose cette vidéo d’animation 3D signée Cristian Acquaro pour l’animation et Luca Dusio pour la direction artistique. Un rendu frais et coloré à découvrir dans la suite.

The MK 01 is a set of four speakers crammed into a unique square; it offers you the possibility to use each of the speakers to their full potential, individually or collectively. Basically any combination will do. The speaker connections are wireless and are truly portable. The speakers even host individual battery packs and you don’t need to worry about plugs and switches. It’s a complete pack of Braun design with minimalist approach.

Features:

• Bluetooth 3.0: The speakers are connected to the Base by Bluetooth and they are also connected to other devices by the same way. You can use different devices at the same time with different speakers; It is also possible to connect your device with the Base to exchange files.
• Airplay compatible for maximum quality when using Apple products.
• TRS ¼ inches port: If you want to make your own music, just plug your electric guitar, bass or any other musical instrument that uses this type of connector and use the MK 01 as an amplifier.
• 2 USB ports and 1 SD Card connector to increase the device´s connectivity with other products.
• 5” touch screen interface to manage your device´s connections, battery levels and equalizer.
• Integrated AC adapter with retractable cable to recharge the base and the speakers.
• Wireless charging. With the base plugged, just place the speakers inside the Base and they are automatically charged with no need of wires.

Designer: Antônio Lucas Celestino da Silva

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(Modular Braun At It’s Best was originally posted on Yanko Design)

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