Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Search for beauty in the little everyday moments.


A few moments with the amazing beauty of water.







Harvard's Biovisions. What designers and scientists can do when paired together.
If you haven't seen this yet its life changing.


if you are interested in the narrated version of biovisions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB6G9GD2KFk&feature=related


www.ted.com/index.php/talk/david_bolinsky_animates_a_cell.html
and an interview with the creator.
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/147

Sunday, March 16, 2008

The Killa cycle-One very fast bike (was)

I actually was at the Wired Nextfest that day but couldn't find the bike. Its probably a good thing. I'm not sure I would have wanted to see this. Its kinda sad. But WOW it looked fast.

More Incredible Robots

Sorry to be posting more robots again so soon but I've always been fascinated with them so here are a few more.


Festo's amazing pneumatic muscles. Looks like the NS-5's muscles in iRobot were base on this technology.


So the Titan 5 isn't technically a "real" robot it is pretty impressive.
you can see him in action here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCZUH7smTQQ


This is what very wealthy nerds do on weekends; haul half a million dollars worth of heavy machinery out into the desert to throw bowling balls at campers.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Spiders, bionic bugs, flying manta-rays and Dark Dinning

Ok, I have to admit I find these next couple links pretty cool.


"because it could be done."

A lot bigger but less cool.

Something I've always wanted to do but never have.

Very dangerous looking

Kinda reminds me of the ghosts in Super Mario Land.
But this is pretty dumb.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Apple: just a rebirth of Braun?


A good design philosophy is worth revisiting. Might Braun be the future of the Apple brand as well? They've already moved on to more than just the personal computing. Why not make the rest of the home their domain? In the home is where we have the strongest emotional response to the products around us. Our emotional response to music is what feeds the iPod craze. I could see Apple producing the perfect home infotainment system with a level of interconnectivity never before realized. They almost have all the pieces together already.

Our future?

Future Cities

For one of my current projects I'm examining urban expansion and specifically how our love affair with the automobile has influenced that expansion. I found numerous gems under these topics. This 1958 Disney film shows how some futurists can be incredibly intuitive on one hand and incredibly blind on the other. Featured are punch card GPS, night vision, urban sprawl, modern RVs, and road trains (kind of). I love the total disregard shown to the horrible effects of man's "progress to the perfect future" shown in this video. Its a little window into some of the minds that have formed the world we live in today.
The Internet.

Another great video from the same site. I always thought that internet commerce was a big miraculous technological accident. Apparently I was wrong. There were people trying to figure this system out since 1968. Check out those sweet flat screens! I'd love to see the rest of this video if anyone can find it, I haven't been able to yet.

Lol cats

Lol cats
Laura and I rediscovered lolcats last week. I thought I'd share a few of my favorites.
Because I know so many people that think they do.
I feel that way sometimes.
Reminds me of Fat Albert. "Hey hey hey!"
For those of you who know Ollie.
No comment.
The way I feel after a good ride.
http://icanhascheezburger.com
Its tough to get funnier (or dumber) than LOL cats. If you'd like to check out the current project to translate the entire bible into LOLcat go here.
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Job_1
I recommend this chapter of Job as a great example of the work they are doing. Srsly
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