greenpeace is at it again, after successfully bullying apple for its environmental carelessness by ranking it as the worst PC manufacturer in terms of environmental impact (march ’07) and motivating job’s new recycling program, a new greenpeace study reveals the presence of (banned) brominated fire retardants in the iphone – which is leading the state […]
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snug-fab
mass customization is only slowly gaining ground in industries such as automobiles, and usually only with cosmetic choices like the color of seats. a number of shoe manufacturers have interfaces for customers to select colors and styles, but use standard forms that compromise fit. unfortunately not all countries have craftspeople cabable of custom shoe-making, in […]
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patronizing design
apple fans seem to enjoy design that limits choices, requires new skills and costs a lot. but my problem with apple isn’t just because they are unabashedly unfriendly to the environment. the most significant things you can do to reduce environmental impact are to allow for easy upgrades, repair and to encourage long product life […]
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collaborative creation
i found peter b. meyer’s episodes of collective invention inspiring because he shows that in cases where technology has no clear application, sharing ideas is more valuable than keeping them secret. he bases this conclusion on some pretty weighty case studies: the invention of desktop computers, the spread of the bessemer steel process, and the […]
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skinnybot
i saw cory kidd’s new version of ‘autom’ the robotic weight loss coach at the AARP conference in Boston last week. he is starting the first sociable robot company, intuitiveautomata based on this (his PhD project). from the website: The future is here! Intuitive Automata Inc. is bringing about the robot revolution by creating robots […]
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the emperor’s new logo-T
i taped connor presenting his kameraflage at the siggraph 2007 unravel fashion show. from the catalogue description: kameraflageâ„¢ is display technology that is invisible to the naked eye, yet is visible when imaged with a digital camera. By integrating kameraflageâ„¢ into garments, a new level of expression is enabled for people who are limited by […]
Also posted in 2d, guerilla, perception, soft/glowing, surveillance, visualization
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logos past
when i see a video about the history of something, i often break it out into stills and look at them all together so that i can get a better idea of the trends. this is one of these, from a video collage of past television production logos, shown here (via boingboing):
slice of life
much as columbus’ landing in the new world was once painted as a triumph against flat-earth dogma, historians have long claimed that a papal decree forbade dissection during the middle ages until vesalius boldly defied it by performing dissections in secret. in fact, no such decree ever existed, but the old bad pope, good scientist […]
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