Voici ce concept de Spotify Player imaginé par l’étudiant Jordi Parra pour son projet de fin d’étude : un transistor à puce RFID connecté à votre compte pour l’écoute de la musique et des playlists Spotify en streaming. Un design minimaliste à découvrir en images et vidéo.
Info : Rejoignez et abonnez-vous à la Fubiz Playlist sur Spotify.
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Itty-bitty monitoring device turns iPhones into wellness machines
If Nike+ doesn’t quite meet your needs, Wahoo connects fitness monitors with the iPhone, integrating current telemetry tech with a device you’re already likely to be using (unless you’re the type to carry a Walkman). Using the cutting-edge ANT+ protocol—the same device-pairing tech used in other monitoring systems—the $130 runner package closes the gap between iPhones and cardio sensors, pairing with dozens of existing delivering physiological data that’s logged in real time.
The Fiscia connector weighs just 3.5 grams, runs off the iPhone’s battery and plugs straight into its data port, allowing you to log EKG data while enjoying the phone’s entertainment features at the same time. It’s part of an array of accessories on offer.
Wahoo also offers a pair of bike packages that not only track biorhythms but ground speed, relative cycle power and other variables germane to the technological fitness freak.
Une excellente idée pour décorer une pièce totalement vide, grâce à des projections à 360° et au mapping video 3D. Un concept développé par le collectif néerlandais Mr Beam avec des couleurs, textures et patterns entièrement customisables. Explications en vidéo dans la suite.
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A handy iPad accessory that lets you use the device in more places
Today’s saturated iPad accessories market makes it hard to offer up an impressive new addition, but Portland, OR-based entrepreneur Jamie Smith has turned technology on its head with the Handstand. The user-friendly design allows you to hold the tablet in one hand and rotate it 360 degrees, to easily toggle between landscape and portrait orientation. An elastic band keeps it secured and comfortable; when you feel like setting the iPad down, the Handstand serves as a supportive stand, resting the iPad at a slight incline for easy viewing.
“My career is one that has been characterized by identifying and filling a need that helps people run their business and personal lives more efficiently,” says Smith. The Handstand does just that, offering iPad users a convenient way of using the device in equally intelligible packaging.
The Handstand makes it easy to make presentations, manage a guest list and multitask doing just about anything. Molded from silicone instead of plastic, the simple switch is a big improvement in terms of comfort and durability.
The handstand currently sells online for $50.
A next-gen Segway in unicycle form
Like a stripped-down Segway, Inventist‘s new Solowheel is geared for the mobile urbanite. The “self-balancing electric unicycle” operates through gyroscopic technology, which a 1000-watt rechargeable lithium-ion battery powers. On a full charge (which takes about 45 minutes), the Solowheel lasts two hours—but the battery actually recaptures energy when going downhill.
Weighing only 20 pounds and consisting of little more than a simple wheel with a fold-up foot platform on either side, you can easily throw it in your backpack or briefcase once you reach your destination, or carry it by its convenient handle.
Solowheel will be available stateside March 2010 and will sell for $1,500.
The global home appliance maker Gorenje has launched a new touchscreen control panel for their Gorenje+ line of built-in kitchen appliances. Premiered at imm cologne, the iChef+ touchscreen features a unique control module with a large colour display that allows users to select the functions simply by sliding their fingers across the touch screen. There are baking presents for everything from brownies to pot roast calibrated to help anyone from novice to gourmand turn out consistent oven-baked goodies. Check out the video demo below. The iChef system will be available this Spring in Europe.
Voici le nouveau concept BMW ConnectedDrive Vision qui sera présenté au salon de l’automobile à Genève. Un roadster 2 places aux lignes fluides où l’électronique sera alimentée par des capteurs intégrés dans les phares et dans les feux, permettant de surveiller le trafic et l’environnement.
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solidThinking, creators of powerful 3D design software for industrial designers, pride themselves on creating tools which allow for rapid ideation and iteration in the early stages of 3D form development. We like to think of their software as the “thinking designers” rapid toolset, ever since they wowed us with their Morphogenesis form creating tools in release 8, which allowed designers to iterate biomorphic structurally informed creations. With the just announced release of solidThinking 8.5 and solidThinking 8.5 Inspired, the company promises over 900 new features emphasizing the application’s performance and improved real-time rendering.
Check out a detailed series of new feature videos at solidthinking.com where you can also signup to download a trial version of solidthinking 8.5 for your Mac or PC.
solidThinking, creators of powerful 3D design software for industrial designers, pride themselves on creating tools which allow for rapid ideation and iteration in the early stages of 3D form development. We like to think of their software as the “thinking designers” rapid toolset, ever since they wowed us with their Morphogenesis form creating tools in release 8, which allowed designers to iterate biomorphic structurally informed creations. With the just announced release of solidThinking 8.5 and solidThinking 8.5 Inspired, the company promises over 900 new features emphasizing the application’s performance and improved real-time rendering.
Check out a detailed series of new feature videos at solidthinking.com where you can also signup to download a trial version of solidthinking 8.5 for your Mac or PC.
‘Flickr Birthdays,’ From 10,852,768 Birthday Pictures on Flickr, 12.22.10
In the era before the socially documented digital age, when a person passed away, the residual evidence of their existence was usually found in journals, photo albums, dusty shoe boxes of mementos high away in some closet, and of course (most importantly) the memories of friends and loved ones. However, as we move continue to build a digital copy of ourselves, quantifying an infinite number of check-ins, status updates, blog posts, and uploaded photos, we are generating a much different post-mortem impression.
An example of a memorial page on 1000memories.com.
In a recent article, the New York Times‘ Rob Walker dissected the current environment of the digital afterlife — everything from memorial sites like 1000memories.com to the unfolding of the untimely death of a suburban technophile on platforms like Blogger and Twitter. Facebook too has been having to come to terms with how they deal with “ghosts” on their site, their term for the profiles of deceased users.
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