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From Logs to Logarithms

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 1:22 pm on April 20, 2010

As designers/industrial designers/architects/visionary futurists we must be able to employ many tools, and with the passing of the hand-drawn ship curves we are now permanently entering the realm of an almost fully digital process.   With so many new softwares becoming available, the creative...

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Embracing the Petabyte Age, Part III: The Mechanization of Man

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 8:48 am on March 29, 2010

Don’t forget about us. A core component in the Singularity-conversation is the topic of the evolving humanization of computers. But how come we don’t speak much of the reciprocal mechanization of man? It’s a two-way street, but most of us don’t consider this in the big picture....

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Art and Culture, Entertainment, Experience Design, Industrial Design, Mobile Design, Technology, Uncategorized, Web

Magazine you can wear and play

Posted by: ltse, at 8:31 am on March 29, 2010

I stumbled upon this very innovative magazine that you can actually wear it.  Like the regular subscribed magazine, each “issue”, designed by T-Post will focus on one news issue. In this past issue, you can play rock, paper, scissors with the t-shirt through a webcam. Not only it take publishing...

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elbulli – part 3

Posted by: Scott Friedmann, at 7:23 pm on February 28, 2010

PART 3 of 4 Months after eating at El Bulli my thoughts and perspectives on the meal are still changing: Certain taste memories are extremely vivid and seem to get stronger, others are bizarrely still changing. It has also been fascinating to compare and contrast my experience there with other innovative...

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Art and Culture, Social Change

The Charter for Compassion

Posted by: John Lally, at 10:31 am on November 13, 2009

Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize on February 28, 2008, and made a wish: for help creating, launching and propagating a Charter for Compassion.  Since that day, thousands of people have contributed to the process and yesterday, the Charter was unveiled to the world. The Charter for Compassion is a cooperative...

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Art and Culture

US Interstate Map Meets the London Underground

Posted by: John Lally, at 4:31 pm on November 12, 2009
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In an age where we have Google and Microsoft mapping technology available that allows us to see such voyeuristic details as the front door of a building or a bird’s eye view of a celebrity’s backyard, it’s sometimes refreshing to look at a road map with a different lens, one that only...

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Art and Culture

“Elegant” Is Often Use For High  Design. But What Does It Mean For Engineering, Interface Or Business Models?

Posted by: Idris Mootee, at 11:40 am on October 19, 2009

El·e·gant, an adjective and define or characterized by or exhibiting refined, tasteful beauty of manner, form, or style. Marc Jacob? Chanel? Jil Sander? Hermes? All are unquestionably elegant by design in the fashion world. How about Amazon Kindle? Apple iPhone? Blackberry?  Are they elegant? Is elegant...

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Google Street View: Initial Thoughts

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 11:56 am on October 8, 2009

Don’t freak out, privacy doesn’t really exist anyways. When Google began its operations to archive and organize the web, it used the assumption that if you put something online, then you want it indexed. Opting out is your burden. This policy extends across most of its services; if there’s...

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Ubicomp And Our Changing Behaviour

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 11:34 am on October 8, 2009

Ubiquitous computing technology may sound like science fiction, but it has already found a role in our lives.

Ubicomp, (or ubiquitous computing) is a term that describes how computing devices will become invisible to the user as they gradually find a use and a home in all objects. For anyone who works in the technology space, the idea of ubicomp is incredible, inevitable, and the next evolutionary step for society....

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Noodlecast: The Official Idea Couture Podcast

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 9:06 am on October 2, 2009

We’d like to invite you to our new online endeavor: Noodlecast. From time to time we’ll upload a relatively brief conversation with you, discussing interesting ideas, products, services, technologies, memes, recipes and tactics to overthrow your government. Just kidding. But not really. We are just getting started here and we’re learning a lot. Your feedback and participation is wanted and welcome. Happy Noodlelistening.

Handy links: Brands in Public, Zeo Sleep Coach Brands in Public is a collection of interesting, accessible, public-facing dashboards for your favorite brands – from Zappos to Virgin America to In-n-Out Burger. Each dashboard organizes a hot list of what’s being said about the brand around the...

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