The web on a map
You can already order it from Information Architets.
Filed Under Creativity, Design, New Media, Technology
Sculptures That Walk With the Wind
Many of you might have seen the video. A sculpture walks on a beach, the “wings” on its back undulating, and its myriad legs pumping across the sand like a surreal millipede. Another scuttles like a giant cardboard spider. Yet another takes dainty little steps when pushed about on a stage, elegantly transforming horizontal motion into rotational steps of its legs. All of these, and more, are the creations of Theo Jansen, a Dutch artist and “kinetic sculptor.” Read more
Filed Under Art, Creativity, Design, Technology
Natural Innovation: The Future Doesn’t Need to Be Chrome Plated
For Less than 6000$ this might be as good as it gets. It’s cheap to make, funky looking, easy to heat, environmentally friendly and cheap to keep warm and watered since its solar powered and has gravity fed water. Maybe it’s crazy, but I like to think this might be the future of housing.
Filed Under Creativity, Design, Environment, Modern Life, Technology
Could The Long Forsaken Blimp Be The Future of Transport?
Imagine cruising 2400 meters above the ground at a maximumspeed of 280 km/hr. Worldwide Aeros, a California based company, is promising this kind of passenger blimp service starting in 2010.
They also want to use these blimps to carry large amounts of cargo, which could become a more energy efficient alternative to tractor-trailers and cargo ships. The blimps take off and land like helicoptors, which means they could land on the roof or in the parking lot of a warehouse, on an oil rig, in the ocean or just about any place with a large enough area for a blimp.
When I hit the lottery, I’m going to buy one to live on.
And still more about the blimp.
Filed Under Design, Environment, Modern Life, Research, Technology
‘If you monitor this camera system you very quickly learn to pick out the sharks amongst the shoals of fish”
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plate commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time’.
Orwell’s dystopic totalitarian regime immortalised in ‘1984′ proves ever more prophetic as the UK continues to monitor the every movement of its citizens. According to a report published in 2008, the average Briton has 3,254 pieces of information recorded about them each week, through a variety of mediums including store Loyalty Cards, Mobile Phones & Public Transportation usage. Appearing up to 300 times per day on CCTV, Britons are the most surveilled people on earth. With more cameras in public spaces then anywhere else, a 2002 estimate suggested the figure lay around 4.2 million, Britons six years on one can only pessimistically ponder elder Brother’s ever curious eyes. Terrifying, invasive, & increasingly threatening to personal freedoms of expression & self-determination, central London’s electronic wandering pupil is pause for more then a passing glance we suspect.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/02/westminster-cctv-system-privacy
Filed Under Environment, Human Rights, Media & Society, Modern Life, Politics, Technology, Uncategorized
Wired goes Italian
Filed Under Creativity, Events, Media & Society, Modern Life, New Media, Research, Technology
Newspaper black out poems
Grab the newspaper and delete the words you don’t need.
Newspaper + Sharpie = Poems.
Filed Under Art, Technology