one hundred and eight / inflatable garbage bags / by Nils Völker
via vimeo.com
2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
countless screws and a microcontroller
2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
countless screws and a microcontroller
"I want to show that people are indeed both repelled and fascinated
by the disgusting transformation of the switches."
well done. Thanks www.nextnature.net, what would I do without you?
In early 2007 the Spanish bank BBVA asked IDEO Munich to re-think their self-service channel from scratch. The question was not how to further automate the teller, but rather how to humanize the machine. ...
The result of that work is the vision for a totally new self-service experience: an ATM built from user up, rather than components down. ...
Today, that vision is reality. It took 2 years of time and a team of committed companies to develop this ATM.
check out: http://www.futureselfservicebanking.com/
"... Although it was produced for 30+ years and in quantities of millions, this handset is now a relic. My eight year old nephew has never seen it before. Technology has progressed and phones are now designed to facilitate ever increasing levels of functionality. As is often the case, with all that is gained, something is lost.
...
The next revision will employ an accelerometer to allow the user to answer a call by simply picking up the phone, further emulating the original experience. ..."
read all about it here: http://labs.ideo.com/2010/06/29/bluetooth-classic/
very proud of this #work of #IDEO Munich.
Read the case study here: http://www.ideo.com/work/featured/bbva
The idea is simple: you stick a properly prepped 2-liter plastic bottle halfway through the roof. The part above the roof collects sunlight. The part below the ceiling diffuses the light -- quite
effectively -- into the living space.
genius!
Thanks Adam Glazier for sharing this. And hey it even peels your onions!
'I don't want to buy new stuff all the time. I want to hack the stuff I already have so it works better for me.'
visit http://sugru.com/
“Meek FM is an interpretation of type as sound. Using new software and the M.E.E.K. typographic synthesizer, the musician/designer develops sounds and typographic visuals in parallel. The system stores the fonts in a high-level representation – as strokes, but it can also import regular fonts such as PostScript, for editing via the synthesizer.”
found at one of my favorite places - Der Glaserei: http://blog.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/?p=26590
There are so many projects we can never talk about - so it's great that we can show this: The Bayer Contour is a portable blood-glucose meter and test strips and pioneered the measuring of glycated hemoglobinis. It's the first meter that plugs directly into a computer and auto-launches diabetes management software, providing diabetes patients and their healthcare professionals with instant access to blood sugar data and trends to help optimize diabetes management.
Read all about it here: http://www.ideo.com/work/item/contour-usb/ and visit the website: http://www.bayercontourusb.de/
"in 2008 David Friedman published ... something that he called The Bulbdial Clock. That's like a sundial, but with better resolution-- not just an hour hand, but a minute and second hand as well, each given as a shadow from moving artificial light sources (bulbs). ..."
Have a look how the Mad Scientist iterated on that: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/go/bulbdial
(via saman rahmanian)
This piece by artist Jim Campbell (http://www.jimcampbell.tv/) shifts between scenes of a fire, a freeway, and a walk in the park. Read more about Campbell at http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/10/jim-campbell-the-art.html
