Vitùc est un réalisateur luxembourgeois qui a décidé de montrer la passion de son fils pour le Fingerboarding. Avec une réalisation soignée et réussie, cette vidéo rappelant l’excellente campagne vidéo d’Hermès Fingerskate. L’ensemble est à découvrir dans la suite.
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Lumi est un procédé intéressant pensé par une équipe de design spécifiquement pour l’impression sur textiles et matériaux naturels. Usant la lumière du soleil pour parvenir à des imprimés de qualité, le résultat est à découvrir dans la suite dans une vidéo.
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Following our series on the story of the modern desk lamp, we now look at what Jake Dyson intends to be the desk lamp of the future—literally: His CSYS LED Task Light is designed with “thermal management” technology designed to prolong the life of its bulb for some 37 years. Unsurprisingly for a Dyson, the technology consists of a vacuum that sucks the heat away from the bulb.
But while that’s cool, the far cooler feature is the way the lamp articulates, versus the traditional desk lamp. I myself own a variant on the Anglepoise, mine being a cheapie imitation from IKEA that I use to illuminate the workbench where I do motor repairs and the like. I have it mounted to a fixture in the wall to provide added height, and I find the swing-arm invaluable for getting light into projects from various angles. Unfortunately, the springs wear over time, losing elasticity and necessitating the ugly rubber band fix you see here.
Dyson’s CSYS, in contrast, operates with these wicked rollers combined with rotating and telescoping actions.
You’ve got to see it in video to appreciate it:
Découverte d’Evantra qui est le nom du projet de supercar du constructeur italien Faralli & Mazzanti. Limitée en fabrication à seulement 5 exemplaires par an à partir de 2012, cette voiture au design splendide est à découvrir dans la suite avec une série de visuels.
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Les architectes de l’Atelier FCJZ, une agence basée en Chine, ont conçue cette installation appelée “Audi Haus”. Pensée à l’occasion du circuit de F1 Shanghai, ils ont construit des partitions de verre autour de la voiture, pour un rendu où la vision du véhicule diffère et impressionne.
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Visuellement magnifique, Keloid se base sur les suppositions du chercheur Eliezer Yudkowsky et prend comme sujet la place du robot et son émancipation face à l’humain. Keloid est un court-métrage réalisé par le studio Big Lazy Robot qui se dévoile en partie dans un trailer dans la suite.
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GE has put together a quick video with the perfect combination of elements: factories, gorgeous cinematography, and radio-controlled helicopters. Take a trip through a diverse range of manufacturing plants, from giant MRI magnets to regal locomotives to flat-bed trucks with two-story claws holding onto jet engines. You can’t make this stuff up. All we can say is, 3D IMAX movie!
A review of Gibson’s latest attempt at marrying technology, design and acoustics
The new Gibson Firebird X marks the iconic brand‘s latest venture into a range of new technologies by building features typically associated with studio recording software directly into the guitar. Having heard mixed reviews, we felt compelled to enlist our friend and lifelong guitar player, Luke Janklow to weigh in. After spending a few days hands-on with the Firebird X Janklow, admittedly a purist and tough customer, lands firmly in the negative camp. His experience reinforces the idea that, while this particular iteration may go down as more of a stepping stone towards the evolution of a truly advanced, beautiful and acoustically sound instrument—most would agree it’s just not there yet—the shift it’s taken in the world of electric guitars maintains its overall relevance. Janklow even went so far as to call the Firebird X “an important, if not watershed moment in the guitar’s modern evolution.” Whether this version becomes the harbinger of change in the field remains to be seen, but in the meantime, Janklow had the following comments to make on the current model.
“This is a fantastic bit of technology, but not necessarily a great guitar just yet,” he says. “The Gibson Firebird X is a fantastic effort, loaded with an astounding range of sounds and flexibility, but it’s ultimately not completely successful as a musical instrument.”
While the infrastructure under the hood is extensive, the intricate stockpile of “amp sounds, effects, echoes, reverbs, compressors and acoustic-type sounds” aren’t configured to be played on the fly. Janklow discussed the the seemingly endless array, while pretty fabulous, also serves the source of the real problem. Having to memorize the location and combination that yields the sound you seek—triangulated by a dizzying combination oddly placed of switches, knobs and sliders—can be potentially clinical and distancing. “The process feels a bit nerdy and stilted, and I, personally, faced a steep learning curve to make it my own,” he says, adding that the inherent sexiness of guitar playing has been minimized for the sake of its powerful features when the physical and virtual should, ideally, be harmonized in a good instrument.
In Janklow’s opinion, the Firebird X (“meaning ‘X’ not ’10’, sadly”) showcases Gibson’s firm commitment to exploring, embracing and blending technology into its future. The company is throwing down the gauntlet and shaking the traditionalist foundations of guitar enthusiasts everywhere with this model, which marks an invitation to non-professionals to immerse themselves in a comprehensive library of classic sounds that are very alchemical and complex to create in the real world.
One highlight, for Janklow, were the sounds. “Firebird has an on-board backwards-guitar setting, and a crazy Jack White sub-octave pre-set, so how bad can it be?” he asks. On the other hand, while this guitar has a thousand convenient sounds, “they do all seem to belong to someone else,” he adds.
For $6,000, the Firebird should deliver on all levels, but Janklow found the strings to be hard and springy. “The guitar is a beast to play, and doesn’t seem to pack the potential for emotional, rocking tones in this current iteration” he confesses. “Playing guitar is an amazingly tactile and sensual experience, and if this model played and sounded more natural while housing all of its amazing technology and versatility, it would be a must-have piece.”
Janklow sums it up: “The Firebird X marks a brave and noble effort but it’s not there yet. The guitar world needs a meaningful transformation in the spirit of a holistic technology design mind like Steve Jobs. Otherwise, let’s just work with what we’ve got.”
At Autodesk University’s Creative Studio exhibit, we received an awesome video demonstration of 123D Catch, a piece of PC-only software that allows you to turn snapshots into detailed virtual 3D models. Our demonstrator walked around a real model of R2-D2, shot photos from multiple angles, then dropped those images into the computer. Autodesk’s server farm in the cloud then crunched the numbers, and a few moments later an insanely detailed 3D model appeared on screen. The whole process, start to finish, was about five minutes of doing and ten minutes of waiting for the cloud-crunching.
Sadly, a technical error rendered our video unusable. But we don’t want you to miss out on the software—it’s currently in beta and available for free download at the link above—so here’s the canned demo video. (You can skip the filler and start watching at 0:35.)
A l’occasion de l’été, Strongbow, collectif composé de 17 surfeurs, a organisé une session de surf le soir même sur la plage de Bondi. Portant des combinaisons composées de néons pour la nuit, le résultat de cette expérience a été réalisé en vidéo par Jack McCoy.
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