MIND. BLOWN. I’ll like the Inception soundtrack to this please.
technology
Part with your GBP48 and you will soon be a proud owner of an artsy and chic 4GB USB drive thats beautiful and poetically named emptyMEMORY by Logical Art.
Dentsu London’s hand-finished conductive christmas card that lights up when you complete the circuit. Lovely!
A delightfully ‘low-tech’ way to explain the very much high-tech, done in classic Eames clarity.
Typewriters are very seldom looked upon as an object that produces art, with its standardised letters and mechanical entry-system. But when Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan got him hands on a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, he replaced the letters and keys with color pads and hued labels to create a functional “painting” device called the Chromatic Typewriter. Now anyone (witha bit of colour know-how) and type their way to a master piece!
An ultra adorable Little Printer, designed by BERG, is meant to serve as an analog RSS feed, printing out news and updates from your own BERGcloud. Set to launch in 2012 with partners Arup, foursquare, Google, the Guardian, and Nike. Using the iPhone as a remote to the device, I am keen to see how well this is customisable to integrate with the current services that we are all using. (ahem, facebook, ahem).
Michael Tompert and Paul Fairchild bought Apple products over a few months, only to destroy them with bullets, fire and running trains. The end result is both entrancing and downright painful. via designboom
Anything made of glass is beautiful in itself. Now make an actual working model of a steam engine in glass and you get magic. Magic and a hypnotic chugging rhythm. Choo! Choo!
Something absurdly twisted by yet calming and mesmerizing… Tania Blanco is born in Valencia, but now lives and works in Paris, France and Valencia, Spain.
I am a huge fan of twelve south, having used their BookArc for the longest time, and lusting over the BackPack and MagicWand. Their latest stroke of genius is also known as the PlugBug, a ‘parasitic’ device to latch onto your MacBook power brick and gives it an additional USB charger port for all your other iDevices. Yums!
Hypnotizing clicking and racket making… the Lego Mindstorm Time Twister makes staring at the old grandfather clock an activity for the oldies.
Jean Baptiste Fastrez looked at hairdryers and decided that they would do well with a bit of wood in the construction. The resulting Tomahawk hair dryers are reminders of old-fashioned tools made with wooden handles yet still starkly modern looking.
Bjork’s latest app/album is launched.
The mother app, Biophilia, can be downloaded for free, is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and is a beautiful visual interpretation of Bjork’s soundscapes by French design duo MM/Paris. The included song, Cosmogony, is instant Bjork magic; sexual, organic and strange. Crystalline is the first ‘single’, sold for USD1.99 as a game where you navigate a polygon through tunnels, collecting more crystals along the way, to hypnotic, ‘crystalline’, electronic beats.
I was skeptical when I first read about this interactive app album. But as daring first steps goes, Bjork’s got it right again.
For the zen music person, the iBamboo is a great ‘amplification’ alternative to its powered counterparts.
Merging the latest high tech with the simple beauty of nature, iBamboo is a100% eco-friendly speaker made from a whole length of bamboo. The natural resonance of the bamboo amplifies the sound produced by the iPhone’s built-in speaker. The sound waves move in two directions at once, intensifying the stereo effect created by the iPhone.
I love this phone’s gentle shape, especially the ‘eye’ icon being used at the back of the phone to indicate the camera.
As the name suggests, the shape of the Folded Leaf takes its cue from nature. Primarily, however, the gentle fold in the body references the curvature of two familiar and successful phone typologies: the classic (if not slightly cumbersome) handset of the late 1930s and the ‘clam shell’ or ‘flip’ phone of the late 90s. These designs possess userfriendly qualities, namely a well-considered ear-to-chin angle as well as a more instinctive distance between ear speaker and microphone.
What used to fit 36 photos now hold 4GB worth. Ahh… the reassuring forward march of technological advancements. Buy it at Photo Jo Jo.
Geeky I know… but beyond the obvious observations of how retro-8bit-great these look, the implications of a fully-rendered moving image made by coding individual pixels in a browser just blows my mind. You have to see them for yourself, in a Google Chrome browser, and bear in mind that these are not images, nor videos. Just coded pixels. *BOOMZ* Mind blown…
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