iq180+ #2
29/11/2012
The Brain Cube, designed by American sculptor Jason Freeny. The challenge is to line up folds of the brain istead of colors, as if the classic Rubik’s cube wasn’t already hard to solve.
Order here.
Category: objects
fuck yeah bandit guns!
26/11/2012
Do-It-Your(Cell)f Phone / David Melis
20/11/2012
Experimental homemade cell phone, one more project on the possibilities of individual construction and customization by David Melis from High-Low Tech.
The initial prototype combines a custom electronic circuit board with a laser-cut plywood and veneer enclosure. The phone accepts a standard SIM card and works with any GSM provider. The display is a color 1.8″, 160×128 pixel, TFT screen. The prototype contains about $150 in parts.
more photos on the DIY cell here
previously : the Open Structures project
the circular nature of time II
14/11/2012
Developed by NewMediology (Danqing Shi), Last clock is a clock app that uses popular slit scan technique to keep you in factual time, human time and remote time.
Just like any other analog clock, the app has three hands: one for seconds, minutes and hours. The hands, however, are made of a slice of live video that gets scanned to the clockface. With different refresh rate for the three hands, the three time circles reflect the rhythms of the space at different temporal resolutions.
The app also allows you to stream the last clock camera feed over the internet.
Found here. Link to video.
Link to the circular nature of time I.
C-0796 bicycle lawnmower / Florian Hauswirth
13/11/2012
A fusion of lawnmower and bicycle, project for the «Kinderspiel» (child’s play) contest at Designbiennale Luzern (special prize), by Swiss designer Florian Hauswirth.
Big Black Beast
13/11/2012
Chandelier with 39 candles made entirely from paraffin wax -which does not drip- by studio Glithero (aka British designer Tim Simpson and Dutch designer Sarah van Gamere). Burning time: approx 10 hours.
Check out the creation process
via openhouse
SMSlingshot
10/11/2012
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/11114362 w=560&h=340]
SMSlingshot by VR/Urban. The installation features a handheld digital slingshot device that can spread sms messages on public screens.
Link to video.
Death Songs
09/11/2012
Imagine is a performance based project of Pedro Reyes that uses the universal medium of music to direct our attention to the madness of gun policies. The musicians participating in concert-like events are using musical instruments constructed by confiscated guns in order to denounce the production and trafficking of guns. In Mexico, where the artist and the guns are from, the project makes the air heavy, as +60,000 drug-related deaths have occurred in the 6-year tenure of outgoing president Felipe Calderón, who notoriously declared “war on drugs”.
As Reyes said: “I wanted to liberate these objects from their demons rather than perpetuating their association to death. When the instruments are played, it is as if some sort of exorcism is performed on them, and the negativity they inherently posses turns into something positive.”
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