Category Archives: Products

POLLI-Bricks

The creative minds at miniWIZ recently debuted the POLLI-Brick, a recycled polymer bottle that can be interlocked to build an incredible array of structures. Made from recycled PET bottles, the lightweight bricks offer excellent acoustic and thermal insulation and can build anything from fences and roofs to pots for plants, skylights and beautiful walls of light.

via inhabitat.com

The Argusâ„¢ II Artificial Retina

The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System (“Argus II”) is designed to bypass damaged photoreceptors in certain blind patients. A miniature video camera housed in the patient’s glasses captures a scene. The video is sent to a small patient-worn computer (i.e., the video processing unit — VPU) where it is processed and transformed into instructions that are sent back to the glasses via a cable. These instructions are transmitted wirelessly to a receiver in the implant.

via Second Sight

Livid Builder – make your own midi VJ controller!

Builder is a line of DIY parts that make it easy for users to design their own USB MIDI control surfaces and devices using buttons, knobs, faders, and talkback LEDs. The BYOB (build your own board) series allows you to easily configure and create a control device with modular, perforated circuit boards that can be organized into customized setups and configurations.

via Livid Instruments

ScribbleBots Digital Drawing Tool

Created for those who crave to draw neatly, but just don’t have the in-built talent for it. The device can be fed with a preconceived drawing paths downloaded off the internet, to maneuver your hand and pen in way that results in some awesome sketching.

via yankodesign.com and coroflot.com

Core 77

Industrial Design content and community site – articles, discussions, interviews and resources.

via core77.com

NOTCOT.org

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The space-boyscout in Tom Sachs got together with the designer in Tom Sachs and they crafted together their very own super-official NASA shotgun.

via notcot.org and tomsachs.org

Art. Lebedev Studio

We offer advanced industrial, graphic, web and interface design. We live the way we like. We work the way we believe is right. We dont give a shit about corporate values all together. All the award plaques end up hanging in our lavatory. We abhor buzzword combinations creative solution and business process optimization. The offers we send to our clients rarely exceed one page. The only principle we follow is just two words: No bullshit.

Founded in Moscow in 1995, Art. Lebedev Studio is the only design company in the world offering product design, city environment design, graphic design, websites, interfaces, packaging, interior design, typeface design, custom patterns, illustrations, and book publishing under one roof.

via artlebedev.com

Generator x

A curatorial platform exploring the use of generative strategies and software processes in digital art, architecture and design. It focuses on a new generation of artists and designers who embrace code as a way of producing new forms of creative expression.

via generatorx.no

Design and the Elastic Mind (MoMA)

The landmark exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspirations. The exhibition highlights designers ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and historychanges that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behaviorand translate them into objects that people can actually understand and use. This Web site presents over three hundred of these works, including fifty projects that are not featured in the gallery exhibition.

via moma.org

Instructables – LED Throwies

Developed by the Graffiti Research Lab a division of the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab, LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends and city officials.

via instructables.com

Maker Faire

Build, CRAFT, hack, play, MAKE. Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. Its for creative, resourceful people of all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things.

via makerfaire.com

PixelSumo

Pixelsumo is a site devoted to sonic art, audiovisual fusion, physical interaction, open source technologies, hacking video game culture, responsive environments & installations.

via pixelsumo.com

Vector-Scan

Ryota Kuwakubo’s on-line portfolio. Check out the blue Logic/Impression interaction in the software section.

via vector-scan.com