Philippe Starck is showing his concept for a transparent home-sized electricity-generating windmill at the Interni Green Energy Design exhibit at the Statale in Milano for the next two weeks. It is a small prototype windmill that is designed to function in urban settings, and it has even been designed to be transparent so as not […]
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recording elegance
HARUO OBA presented “special moments” today at CHI 2008 – two brilliant tangible recording interfaces mapped to physical phenomena. The BOOK RECORDER consists of two clips – one in the shape of an owl and the other in the shape of the moon – placed on the front and back covers of a child’s book. […]
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collaborative conscience
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Clay Ward, founder of thoughtandmemory.org, an on-line resource for tracking supply chains and developing user-generated ratings of companies based on social and environmental performance. The site is built off a hefty back-end where anyone can contribute reviews of companies big and small, and the reviews get ranked by […]
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barter for good
Inspired by the OLPC’s ‘Give one, Get one‘ campaign and Product (RED), brandnext‘s THE STORE FOR TOMORROW is an exploration of how consumerism could be transformed into a meaningful activity. The store’s only currency is time, which can be exchanged for products ranging from gadgets to travel or an ISBN number. Some examples of trades […]
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one accessory per child
The brilliant Mike Lee invented a viewfinder for the OLPC‘s built-in digital camera (a perfect example of futurecraft) and has already made rapid prototypes – check them out below:
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pod docks
how far have we come? ipods are supposed to be the best design of today, yet they’re more plain than a walkman was twenty years ago. just look at the walkman docks of 1984: they were colorful, re-configurable and even transformer-like.
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form ignores function
yesterday at takashimaya in shinjuku i bought two things: can you guess what they are? they are shiny, plastic and white. i think they are even better designed than apple products: they reveal nothing about their function at all. below is naoto fukasawa’s humidifier sold through his brand +_0, whereas the apple above is just […]
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