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Après la démonstration Live Car Custom, voici cette projection mapping autour d’une paire de baskets de la marque New Balance. Un project produit par Smithssi et Flurry Interactive en Corée. La bande son est signée Pnau – Baby (Breakbot Remix) ainsi que Justice – DVNO.

Previously on Fubiz

• Honda Projection Mapping
• Indoor Mapping Performance
• Mapping : The 600 Years

Technology and fine art collide in a device bringing museums to the elderly

A Texas-based project, For Love & Art helps the elderly living in hospices enjoy fine works of art during their last days through digital photos. A partnership between art galleries and museums brings thousands of pieces of fine art to Digital Foci‘s eight-inch high-resolution digital LCD notebooks for viewing by those who are no longer able to travel.

Already NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Washington D.C.’s The National Gallery of Art have joined the ranks of image contributors, but organizers are looking to expand the 1000-piece collection.

Dallas’ Touching Our World Foundation is asking for people to donate and spread this program to other hospices. As our population continues to gray, it’s important to think about art and design in the golden years whether it be a quirky paint-dipped cane or a sober assessment of design for future retirement complexes.

Even though a Mac mini only occupies about 60 square inches of desktop space, you still might want to keep it completely out of sight. There are a number of ready-made brackets available that will let you easily mount a mini either under a desk or directly behind an LCD display.

Sonnet MacCuff Mini Mounting Bracket ($57.99)

This steel bracket comes in two sizes. One fits the new 2010 Mac mini and the other fits all previous models. This is probably the most versatile of the lot, as it will mount either under a desk or to a VESA mount on the back of an LCD display. It features a steel locking bar for security and it comes with a 35cm short monitor cable and mounting supplies.

Macessity MiClassic Mount Bracket for 2010 Mac Mini ($52.99)

This bracket is designed for the 2010 Mac mini form factor, but Macessity also manufactures a similar “Hang With Mi” bracket for the older-sized minis. These units do not have holes suitable for VESA mounting and they are only designed for use under a desk. They do, however, have a built-in powered 4-port USB2.0 hub, which is nice if you plan to also mount USB devices out of sight. An optional swivel mount is available if you need to be able to rotate your computer while mounted.

Mac Mount (£14.99)

Although the picture below shows these relatively inexpensive acrylic mounting brackets being used to secure a G-Tech G-Drive, they are also designed to work with a Mac mini. They can also be used to secure an Airport Extreme.

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Le constructeur BMW vient d’annoncer son nouveau scooter intitulé “Concept C”, avec beaucoup de style et de modernité. Niveau innovations technologiques : un éclairage à LED intégré au carénage, ainsi que des rétroviseurs remplacés par des caméras placées à l’arrière.

Dans le même esprit : Honda 3R-C Concept

Previously on Fubiz

• Citroën Metropolis Concept
• Honda 3R-C Concept
• Audi – Friendly Competition

This past weekend, I was exploring some of the also-rans of the recent Cooper-Hewitt People’s Design Award when I stumbled across a curious nominee with some interesting implications beyond its specific function. The product, Excel Everest, is a fully interactive MS Excel tutorial used for in-the-product training.

I know mentioning the dreaded word “Excel” here to an audience of designers might seem off topic but the concepts of an interactive, self-grading, “in-product” tutorial complete with embedded videos and a scoreboard is very compelling. The product itself isn’t a visual designer’s idea of beautiful (it is still an Excel tutorial living inside of an MS Office product after all) but it solves the challenge of teaching a complicated software in a novel, simple way.

Today, learning new software programs either falls in the “learn by doing” or the instructor/classroom based model. The latter often causes painful workarounds and the former is often time/cost prohibitive. While companies like Google and Apple strive to provide simple to use, intuitive systems; as designers we all know that not all software systems are best boiled down to one button and two clicks. Some programs, like Excel or the Adobe Creative Suite, are complicated for a reason and in all circumstance will formidably challenge even the most simplicity-focused designer.

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