Formé de 60 modules mobiles, ce projet incroyable de Thibaut Sld nommé Hexi permet d’obtenir une structure murale sensible aux passages devant elle. Une forme fluctuante, jouant par mimétisme en miroir sur les mouvements du passant, faisant ainsi évoluer ces modules avec talent. A découvrir dans la suite en images.
Israeli designer Dor Tal has designed a set of gadgets that monitor data generated on social networks to help users predict the future and take action ahead of time (+ movie).
Dor Tal’s Future Control project imagines a personal horoscope built on your data that could predict everything from when you’re most likely to go to the gym, to what mood your partner is going to be in when they get home.
Dor Tal‘s concept works in two ways. The first requires the user to download an app on to their smartphone that scours social networks for any data generated about the user, or other people and organisations that might affect them. An algorithm then detects any patterns of behaviour that could be forecast ahead of time. The more accounts the user adds, including credit card information, Google, Apple and Facebook, the more intelligent the device becomes.
“When it identifies a predictable action, a recommended response for solving the problem or enhancing the experience is calculated and presented,” explained Dor Tal.
The second part of the project is called Predictables: two devices that present that data to the user. The first uses a pico projector, which displays a timeline with a series of floating bubbles indicating actions the user can take.
The colour scheme highlights how far in the future the action might be: green indicates behaviour days ahead, where as red tells the user these actions should be taken today.
If the user is moving around, the same display can be projected on to the their hand via a smartwatch. Both displays utilise gesture control, allowing the user to interact with the display with his or her hands.
“One interesting aspect of the interaction, similar to what happens in the Back to the Future films, is that the predictions continuously change as the user acts and reacts in present time,” said Tal.
Future Control was part of Tal’s graduation project from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. The designer wanted to explore our obsession with trying to predict the future.
“From the movement of the stars to modern technology, man has searched for patterns that can indicate the imminent future,” explained Tal. “The biggest challenge of this project is to create the forecasting algorithms, but I believe this will happen sooner than expected.”
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Termites are not usually known for their construction. However, if you’ve ever seen a termite settlement that wasn’t house-bound, you’ll know that they can build elaborate structures, sometimes over 40 feet high. These huge termite castles are built cooperatively, but autonomously and without (researchers at Harvard suppose) any central control. This swarm construction is the basis for the TERMES robot. TERMES robots are given a blueprint and a set of traffic rules, and from there they work to complete their tasks, independent from but in parallel with, the others. Although they work most efficiently as a collective, each can build the project to completion independently.
Don’t image search for “Termite.” Just don’t.
Equipped with ten sensors and three actuators, these cool crawlers respond visually to their environment and make decisions accordingly, without needing external aid or direction. It’s a bold move, and one that pans out well when building large blocky, tiered structures. See them in action:
News: Google‘s latest research project equips smartphones with the ability to map their surroundings and build navigable three-dimensional virtual environments that can be used to give directions indoors.
Google’s hope is that the phone could give precise directions to any given point, inside or outside, by learning the dimensions of spaces just through moving around them.
“What if directions to a new location didn’t stop at the street address?” said a statement on the project website. “What if you never again found yourself lost in a new building?”
The Tango device works by using a motion-tracking camera and depth sensor built into a prototype Android smartphone. As the user walks around pointing the camera at what it sees, the sensors in the phone take 250,000 measurements of its surroundings every second and fuses this information into a three-dimensional map.
The tech giant has made 200 of the devices to give to software developers so they can design and build new mapping tools, games and algorithms.
While the initial application is to help create better navigation tools, Tango could be used to create augmented reality games or assist visually impaired users when they’re attempting to navigate an unfamiliar area.
It could also be used to give precise measurements of each room in your house, so if you’re wondering whether that new sofa will fit into your living room, Tango will be able to tell you.
The project has been developed by the tech giant’s Advanced Technology and Projects group, which is one of the few remaining acquired parts of Motorola that Google decided to hang onto when it subsequently sold the company to Lenovo.
Other projects to emerge out of Motorola include Project Ara, a modular smartphone that allows users to create their dream smartphone via a series of customisable building blocks.
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Swiss automobile company Rinspeed has unveiled a self-driving concept car that transforms into a mobile office so owners can make the most of their time on the road (+ slideshow).
To create the XchangE car concept, designers at Rinspeed took a standard Tesla Model S sedan and altered it to give an idea of what a driverless car in the future might look and feel like.
“So far hardly anyone has taken this to its logical conclusion from the perspective of the driver,” explained Rinspeed founder Frank M. Rinderknecht. “How will the interior of a vehicle have to be designed to let the now largely unburdened driver make optimal use of the gain in time?”
When the driver engages autonomous driving, the steering wheel would slide away and a desk could be pulled out to accommodate laptops and other office equipment.
Once the car is driving itself, the driver could swivel their seat to face the passenger, or explore any of the 20 possible seating positions at their disposal, including a flat bed. While relaxing, passengers would have access to an entertainment system spread across four separate screens.
The XChangE would also have its own wireless 4G connection, which Rinspeed believes could be used to access cloud services such as warning messages or recommendations en route and driving profiles.
A 1.2-metre-wide display strip on the dashboard would provide information such as distance to travel and remaining fuel. In the rear of the cabin, a 32-inch monitor could be used to access on-demand films and TV via gesture control.
The interior would feature 358 individually controlled LEDs, as well as an extra 98 in the instrument panel to gently light the cabin. The seating and carpeting, developed by textile specialist Strähle+Hes, would use natural materials including Merino wool and silk.
The XchangE is the twentieth concept vehicle produced by Rinspeed, which plans to unveil the car at the Geneva International Motor Show next month.
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Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: integration with the existing fashion supply chain is crucial to the development of a successful wearable technology industry, says solar-powered dress designer Pauline van Dongen.
“We see a lot of exciting [wearable technology] projects, a lot of design prototyping going on,” says van Dongen, who was speaking at the Wearable Futures conference held in December at Ravensbourne. “It’s really amazing how quickly things are evolving.”
Despite this, van Dongen says that unless the resulting products are comfortable and visually appealing fashion pieces in their own right, they won’t take off.
“It’s very important to stress the wearability,” she says. “I think it’s the only way to connect to the market, to connect to people and to transcend the realm of gadgets.”
Van Dongen launched her womenswear label, which specialises in combining fashion and technology, in 2010. Her Wearable Solar range consists of a dress that incorporates 72 flexible solar panels as well as a coat that has 48 rigid crystalline solar cells.
“Both prototypes have a modular element where you can reveal the solar panels when the sun shines but you can also hide them and wear them close to your body,”she explains. “When you wear them in full sun for one hour they can generate enough energy to charge your typical smartphone 50 percent.”
Van Dongen is aware that there will be significant production challenges to overcome before products like hers become commercially viable.
“It’s important to think how all these new designs can be integrated into the production chain,” she says. “An important next step to take wearable technology to another level is to look at the commercialisation of it.”
This is the fourth movie from the two-day Wearable Futures conference that explored how smart materials and new technologies are helping to make wearable technology one of the most talked-about topics in the fields of design and technology.
In the first movie, designer of Dita von Teese’s 3D-printed gown Francis Bitonti explained how advances in design software mean “materials are becoming media”. In the second, Suzanne Lee explained how she makes clothes “grown using bacteria.” In the third, Shamees Aden explained how scientists are combining non-living chemicals to create materials with the properties of living organisms.
The music featured in the movie is a track by DJ Kimon. You can listen to his music on Dezeen Music Project.
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers is a year-long collaboration with MINI exploring how design and technology are coming together to shape the future.
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YD’s resident Design Strategist Hideshi Hamaguchi, who also happens to be the innovator of the USB Stick will be pleasantly surprised to see his vision take on such a productive form. dataSTICKIES are the next generation of data portability. They are graphene-based flash drives that replace USB data drives.
dataSTICKIES can be carried like a stack of sticky-back notes; each of them can be simply peeled from the stack and stuck anywhere on the ODTS (Optical Data Transfer Surface), which is a panel that can be attached to the front surface of devices like computer screens, televisions, music systems, etc. The device uses a special conductive adhesive that sticks them to the ODTS and serves as the medium that transfers the data.
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dataSTICKIES is a 2013 Red Dot Award: Design Concept winner.
Designers: Aditi Singh & Parag Anand
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Réalisé par Raanan Stern et Shany Tal, ce studio multifonctionnel à Tel-Aviv a subi une transformation à partir d’un appartement exigu en un espace de travail polyvalent et fonctionnel. L’espace est seulement de 20 mètres carrés mais parvient à s’adapter à une multitude d’options de stockage, ainsi que d’un lit caché.
Le designer anglais Jay Watson a créé une table en bois thermochromique qu’il a appelée « Linger a Little Longer ». En effet, la peinture noire réagit à la chaleur du corps et des objets en se décolorant. Un objet design très original Thermochromic Table qui est à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Basé à Barcelone Penique Productions est un collectif d’artistes qui crée des installations de transformation dans les espaces publics. Le groupe utilise des ballons en plastique qui sont gonflés à l’intérieur de bâtiments. Couplé avec l’éclairage extérieur qui illumine le plastique de couleur, les résultats sont à découvrir ci-dessous.
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