papercraft is the most versatile personal fabrication system: all you need is a printer, scissors and glue. now there’s a CAD for papercraft called pepakura that unfolds any three-dimensional model, adds the tabs and prepares the pattern to be printed on an A4 sheet of paper. Using tyvek or felt you can even make durable, […]
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digital dwelling
i visited moishe safdie’s habitat yesterday, a 40-year-old futurist masterpiece that was a lot more exciting to walk through than a lot of crazy buildings. this dated vision of the future is still inhabited, in fact renovated, and it makes the point that you can design for customization in architecture: you’ll hardly notice all of […]
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artmarks
i just discovered the museums and the web conference website, a creative commons site containing all the latest developments in trying to market art to the masses through internet portals to museums. many museums have opened on-line portals, and some of them even exist in second life or their own on-line versions. once a museum […]
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virtual tailor
the college of human ecology at cornell has a 3D scanner that they have turned on the human body, not for medical research, but to help design clothing that is automatically custom-made on-demand. they show how, in fact, it’s hard to know how mail-order clothing will fit you. if you have a (recent) three-dimensional model […]
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penis peripheral
Haptics, the technology behind vibrating video game controllers, are not just going to be used to simulate touching artificial objects. Artificial touch technology can also be used to enhance the way we touch each other – as this product demonstrates. Vicon‘s ring of love is a disposable vibrating cockring with a tiny vibrating motor and […]
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usb me
with all of the products and concepts that exist around a single technology (in this case USB memory sticks) it seems that we are heading towards a place where design for the masses may not be necessary any more and each object can become a unique expression of the individual
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DIY flipbook
noah fields from the medialab’s physical language group (run by john maeda) designed this program to generate flipbooks from animations, either by drawing them directly in this app, or by downloading this app to your mac or this app to your pc…
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