Hasta La Ideas

We’ve either done it ourselves or know someone who has spilled a drink onto a keyboard. Gina Trapani, founder of Lifehacker who now writes the terrific blog Smarterware, gives detailed instructions on how to save your keyboard after it has gone swimming.

A good cleaning once a year isn’t a bad idea for your keyboard, either, and her instructions will get you back to new. Keep the clutter out from under your fingertips.

The Artvertiser allows citizens to reclaim advertising-saturated city spaces by looking through a hand-held device that substitutes billboard content for art. This virtual canvas is not too far removed from the 3D artists portrayed in William Gibson’s “Spook Country” who build location specific installations, viewable through special equipment that creates a layer of virtual reality over the physical. The Artvertiser software is programmed to recognize individual advertisements, each of which can be replaced with art regardless of whether the ad is on a building, in a magazine or the side of a vehicle.

The project was started by Julian Oliver in early 2008, he’s now collaborating with Clara Boj and Diego Diaz and you can follow their progress on his blog. They’re currently making a set of weather-proof digital binoculars–improved connectivity, battery life and solid state storage–and hope to have the software platform working with mobile devices (running Symbian and Android) by the end of the year. Check out their latest ‘postcard’ demo below and more video samples at vimeo.

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Inhalt est une caravane multicellulaire conçue par la société Mehrzelle. Chaque utilisateur peut mettre en place un design qui lui est unique, le design final est effectué par les paramètres des architectes pour donner un résultat intéressant et réalisable. Exemple dans la suite.

Wanted to make sure you didn’t miss this in the magazine (and at the ICFF show this past weekend).

A French team of an engineer and two architects have won this year’s prestigious Metropolis Next Generation Design Prize for “Wind-it,” a design to place wind turbines inside existing high-voltage electricity pylons. The winners are Julien Choppin, 31, and Nicola Delon, 31, partners in the Paris architecture firm Encore Heureux, and Raphael Menard, director of Elioth, a 20-person conceptual and experimental research arm of the large French engineering firm Iosis Group. The first non-US winners of the prize, Choppin, Delon and Menard were judged to have best met the 2009 Next Generation Prize Challenge: “FIX OUR ENERGY ADDICTION.”

Wind-it answers one of the greatest challenges to the development of wind power: where to site wind turbines. Choppin, Delon and Menard’s design uses existing infrastructure–the towers and pylons that dot the more than 157,000 miles of high voltage power lines in the U.S.–to locate their turbines, which can be stacked within already sited structures. Moreover, Wind-it solves the problem of linking energy generation and electricity transmission in the same way–by co-locating them.

Read way more about the project at the site.

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