L’artiste Kustaa Saksi et l’architecte Gert Wingårdh ont crée cette structure extraordinaire pour le programme Hello events programme at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair avec l’utilisiation de 700.000 fiches illustrées de papier A3 et 44.000 points de suspension. Une réalisation splendide à découvrir en images dans la suite.
Mondialement connu, le pont rouge Bay Bridge, symbole de la Baie de San Francisco, va accueillir à partir de début mars 25 000 LEDs éclairant ainsi ce dernier avec beauté pour les deux prochaines années. Une conception appelée The Bay Lights signée Léo Villareal à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Imagine using a smartphone that sports a bare minimum design and yet is functional enough to pass off as the latest high-tech device. The Sustainable Smartphone is just that; it uses fewer materials and its lifespan exceeds that of existing smart phones. It is a basic communication device and caters to the needs of those who are prone to the elements, have special needs, and impoverished people.
The phone uses a rubber gasket for water resistance, low trip force buttons under the screen for user feedback, large clean text and visuals for readability, and minimal materials and processes for low cost. Specs include a stamped aluminum housing, E-ink screen, minimal PCB components, lithium polymer battery, and a standard Mini-USB charging port.
Metal stamping requires minimal tooling, low energy, and produces nominal waste. Aluminum is easy to machine, rigid, and very easily recyclable. Lithium polymer batteries have a very slow degradation rate, which is not affected by inconsistent charging. E-ink screens are very durable and require sixty percent less energy than LCD screens to operate. Having minimal PCB components makes the device far less likely to overheat, which is a common reason for the failure of smart devices. This device has a standard Mini-USB charging port, but will not be sold with a charger. Since Mini-USB chargers have almost become an industry standard for cell phones and smart devices, many people already have them in their homes. There is a large amount of waste attributed to the fact that all cell phones on the market are sold with a charger.
Pretty cool!
Designers: Michael Mattana, James Paulius & Sayer Murphy
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Although it seems that we’ve been soliciting your opinions with a simple “Yea or Nay” quite a bit lately—regarding this and this, for starters—we just as often herald instances of “hell in a handbasket” to connote examples of design or specific products that confound us. And while I’d surmise that a new product called the Automee S is an example of chindōgu, the fact that it will reportedly available for 1575 Yen (about $17) next month seems to be at odds with the spirit of ‘unuseless design.’
Unfortunately, the product page is in Japanese, so we’re relying on New Launches’ translation regarding details and specs. They write that “the little one has three tires for maneuvering and two made of paper which do the cleaning. The onboard sensors prevent the Automee S from falling off the edges and also lets it clean the entire surface evenly.”
New Launches also notes that it takes four minutes to clean a phone and eight to clean a tablet, which makes it good for 45 and 22 complete cleans on a single AA battery.
When I think of avoiding clutter, I often think of my physical surroundings: the car, the office, my kitchen and my kids’ playroom. However, my computer’s screen — or desktop — also gets pretty messy on a regular basis. What’s more, that clutter can be just as distracting as a physical mess, and hinder my willingness to sit down and work. Fortunately, I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve. Here’s how I manage digital clutter on my virtual desktop.
Much like a potter who goes home with clay on his jeans, I get messy while I work. The time you spend meeting obligations, making ends meet, and fulfilling the 9-to–5 is not the time to get fastidious about the location of every file and folder. Do your job, fling clay, and get stuff done.
At the end of my work day, I’ve typically got screenshots and other images, snippets of text, installers and more all over the desktop. This is perfectly acceptable. Leaving them there for all eternity — or worse, treating the desktop as a filing cabinet — is not.
Most of us have several inboxes in our lives. There’s the physical in tray on your desk, but also email, voice mail, notes from school, and so on. When I sit down to go through those things, I follow the same process each time. Specifically, I ask myself what is this item, what needs to be done about it (if anything) and am I the person to do it? Sorting through the files and folders on my computer desktop requires the same process. Some stuff can be thrown away, others spawn ideas or join existing projects, while others go into long-term storage as reference material. Here’s how I separate the three types:
Trash
In Progress
Occasionally I’ll come across a website that I want to return to, an article I’d like to read during down time, an idea that could spawn or improve a new project or something I’d like to share.
There are many great ways to capture web site addresses for future reference. Pinterest is a popular service, but my favorite is Pinboard. It’s definitely no-frills, and that’s what I like about it. Pinboard costs about $10 to sign up for the service, and offers a place to store your bookmarks that is aways accessible. Multiple computers, smartphones and tablets can all log into your Pinboard account and have access to your saved sites. You can organize your collection with tags, and optionally share select finds with others. Again, I use Pinboard for sites I’ll refer to often.
That collection is different than articles I’d like to read in my free time. There are several great services that offer a super “read-it-later” experience, and my favorites are Instapaper and Pocket. Both store your saved articles for later viewing on a computer, smartphone or tablet. They also strip out the images, ads and so on so that all you get is the article you’re after. Honestly, I like them both and believe you’d be happy with either.
The next category is new ideas and/or information that pertains to a project in progress. This is also where the article takes a geeky turn, though I’ll ease into it slowly.
I like to store ideas, thoughts worth follow-up, etc. in a file format called plain text. Why? My Internet buddy David Sparks explains it beautifully at his site, Mac Sparky:
Text files are easy to read on any computer running any operating system and don’t require any proprietary word processor to interpret. Even more important, text files can be read by humans. Keeping your writings in text makes them digitally immortal.
Moreover, text is internet friendly. The files are small and can jump among connected devices with poor connections like hopped up Disney faeries. It is really easy to work with your text files on any device from anywhere.
Your computer can read and create plain text files right out of the box. There’s nothing to fiddle with or buy. It just works. Plain text files also act as a nice half-way point before going into your formal project manager. So a folder full of plain text files does it for me.
That’s the non-geek version.
Ideas that require developement go into a piece of Mac software that I love called nvALT. I love nvALT because it’s insanely fast, supports keyboard shortcuts so I don’t have to move my hand to the mouse very often, saving time, and has powerful search capabilities. It syncs to my iPhone and iPad almost instantly, thanks to Dropbox and another app called Simplenote.
Finally, when it comes to long-term storage of reference material, I’m a loyalist to one product. This is information that does not require an action but might be useful in the future (a local theatre’s summer schedule, for example). This goes into Evernote.
First, don’t get distracted by trying to stay neat while you work. That’s counterproductive and will leave you frustrated. At the end of the day, process the stuff that has accumulated on your computer’s screen as you would any other inbox. Decided what a file is, what must be done with it (incubate, throw away, delegate or save for later), and then act accordingly by moving that item to the proper location. You’ll be glad you did.
Need help getting organized? Buy the DRM-free audiobook version of Erin Rooney Doland’s Unclutter Your Life in One Week today for only $8.99.
This is the age of being multifunctional, hence a concept like the Paysage Laptop sound pretty acceptable. Here is a 14.1-inch laptop that features an inductive stand for the home. It looks super sexy in its brushed aluminum unibody design. A soft rubber hinge reinforced with a piece of metal inside gives it a maximum opening of 180°.
Use Paysage as a laptop or switch to a home PC of 21 inches. In the laptop configuration, all is powered by battery. However as a desktop computer, the screen is powered by the induction of the stand and connected via Bluetooth. It even features removable keyboard and trackpad!
Designer: Kévin Depape
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Le duo norvégien Skrekkøgle composé de Theo Tveterås et Lars Marcus Vedeler a réalisé ce joli prototype de radio appelé sobrement « Plugg ». Doté d’un système très simple et original pour allumer et éteindre l’objet, voici son design très réussi à découvrir en images et vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
The ICONE is an amplified speaker which provides 360° sound. Wireless technologies and Smartphone Apps integration (even tablet and computers) makes it the perfect listening companion for music lovers. It’s not portable but it works well as a multiroom system. Sounds good!
Designers: Manon Bourette, Hadrien Houyez, Sébastien Baudemont, Kévin Depape & Tim Defleur
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PANDORA is a flexible laptop PC for the next generation. Through its flexible display and proper application of various technologies, this laptop PC can be applied to a number of interfaces smoothly. A shade less thicker than typical tablets, the device boasts of thin flexible battery technologies as well. A good hybrid concept for gen-next I love the new form and approach towards the design.
Measuring only 9mm thick, it can be easily gripped and is convenient to carry. Materials used include fine porous grapheme materials, high polymer and silicon on the hinge part.
Designer: Jeabyun Yeon
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Seed-dispersing robots and file-sharing drones are among proposals to fuse technology and the natural world by Liam Young of Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, presented at our Designed in Hackney Day last summer (+ movie).
Above: Young’s Unknown Fields project with Kate Davies
In the movie, Liam Young looks back at his work with Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, the studio he runs with Darryl Chen, and Unknown Fields, an experimental project with designer and writer Kate Davies. Young explains his work is influenced by the history of futurology and how the “diverse visions of yesterday’s tomorrows” can explore the consequences of emerging technologies.
Above: deforestation reveals an ancient town in the rainforest
For one Unknown Fields project, Young travelled to the Amazon rainforest and discovered that an area we think of as an untouched wilderness was once a cultivated landscape.
Above: “CO2 scrubbers” for the Amazon
“Instead of a jungle, what we actually find is a large garden,” he says, explaining how deforestation has revealed ditches in the rainforest floor left behind by an ancient village whose residents cultivated the local flora.
Above: “migrating forests” for the Amazon
The studio then invented fantastical creatures that might find a home in the deforested areas of the Amazon, such as “CO2 scrubbers” that convert carbon dioxide to oxygen more efficiently than the trees that once stood there and “migrating forests” that can travel as the climate changes.
Above: rat poison spread across the Galapagos Islands
He also visited the Galapagos Islands where he encountered “an absurd fight for an idealised nature”, with rat poison dumped from helicopters and an “eco sniper” killing goats that destroy the habitats of endangered turtles.
Above: seed dispersal robot
Exploring this use of technology to maintain a “natural” environment, Young came up with a seed dispersal robot that floats like a plant spore in the wind, dropping native Galapagos seeds on the ground.
Above: poison cloud robot
He also designed a machine that sprays poisonous clouds to kill invasive rodent populations, guided by a “Judas rodent” that herds the rats into packs before the poison is released.
Above: “Judas rodent” to guide the poison cloud robot
In Australia, Young visited an enormous gold mine where he discovered that it takes 200 trucks of excavated rock to produce just one gold bar.
Above: Kalgoorlie Super Pit in Western Australia
A 3D computer image of the mine is connected to real-time information about the price of gold, dictating how much is excavated each day.
Above: computer image of Kalgoorlie Super Pit
He finishes with Electronic Countermeasures, a Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today project that saw a flock of flying robots create temporary file-sharing networks above the city.
Above: a gold bar being weighed
“It’s kind of like an aerial Napster, he says. “They perform this balletic aerial choreography, drifting through the sky, part nomadic infrastructure and part nomadic swarm.”
Above: Electronic Countermeasures
“What we’ve realised is that there’s no nature anymore – at least not in the sense that we culturally define it,” he concludes. “What there is, is technology. Engineered networks, augmented environments, invisible fields – infrastructure has exploded into bits, to roam the earth in an architecture of everywhere.”
Above: Electronic Countermeasures
Dezeen’s Designed in Hackney initiative was launched to highlight the best architecture and design made in the borough, which was one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices.
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