Archive for November, 2006

What happens when the Swedes and the Japanese mash up their ideas? Crazy genius. Liking to the idea of quickly sketching up a 3D model, this takes it a step further by actually sketching a 3D object. The Swedish people over at Front using motion capture have developed a way where, with a pen, one […]

Aeon Flux

20Nov06

Nokia Research and Development has released a handful of images of a new touch screen concept phone. Very little is known of the unique shaped phone since specifications and details were not released.
Touch screen seems to be the next step in cell phone interaction. As more cell phones are integrating buttonless / touch surfaces, people […]

Spin Me Round

08Nov06

There is no dark side… of the house that is. The Everingham computer controlled rotating house in Australia can be programed so that an occupied room follows the path of the sun so you’re always in the sunny side of the house. The house can rotate up to two times an hour via two 500 […]

Beautiful Urine

07Nov06

Lightsaver

06Nov06

This is a clever power strip from Static! The Power Aware Cord shows energy usage in the form of pulsing light. As the energy use goes up, the cord get brighter. Static! is a research group dedicated to changing consumer energy consumption by bring awareness of energy use and is comprised of design studios, electricity […]