Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios have partnered to develop a short film featuring 10 quadcopters in a flying dance performance. The collaboration resulted in a unique, interactive choreography where humans and drones move in sync.
Google Glass Weapons System.
TrackingPoint, the worldwide leader in advanced firearms technology, has released a video from their Labs department that demonstrates the use of wearable technology along with a Precision Guided Firearm (PGF). PGF technology makes use of a bevy of sensors to make highly accurate ballistic calculations, taking into account wind, elevation, pressure, and more in real time.
It was only a matter of time before google glass would help you shoot around corners, have your superior officer pull the trigger remotely, or hackers disable or adjust your aim. Welcome to the tomorrow of today.
See it is 2014 – Fly cars are here.
SkyRunner is a dune buggy and a power parachute in one. After almost three years in development, it is on track to hit the market later this year.
New York's Horseless E-Carriage.
An electric car that proponents hope will replace horse-drawn carriages in New York City has also been revealed at the auto show. (Apr. 17)
Important Facts about the Horseless Carriage
- The electric Horseless Carriage will generate $33 million annually -- nearly double the current carriage industry.
- Monthly expenses for carriage drivers will drop from $3,000 per month to $1,700 month.
- Authentically styled and constructed to replicate turn of the century cars with a target build date of 1909.
- Ergonomic body design provides comfortable and safe 8 passenger seating.
- Cars will be propelled solely by electric power. Lithium-ion batteries provide cutting edge, clean energy.
- Raised "stadium" seating, "parasol" convertible top and lowered driver cockpit area provide 360degree viewing.
- All-weather driving: Heated seats and roll down clear sides provide comfort in cold weather, snow or rain.
- Suspension and steering designed to provide authentic "turn of the century" drive experience.
- Up to 10 hours of drive time per charge.
- Cars will each be personalized to create a palette of unique and aesthetically pleasing cars.
- Regenerative deceleration charges batteries whenever car is slowing down.
- Cars will travel at a low 5mph in the park and will be able to keep up with city traffic on the street.
- The 21st Century Horseless Carriage will be manufactured locally in one of the five boroughs, creating jobs and bringing a new industry to the city.
- It was designed by the team at Creative Workshop.
You can stop printing sheet music and 3d print a Ukulele
PL01 Concept Tank
Polish landforces could be driving these some time soon. It seems to have borrowed ab it from from the tanks in Tron, or maybe not?
These patrol tanks were created by Kevin Flynn, of Encom, for the video game, Space Paranoids. Unfortunately his work was stolen by Ed Dillinger then annexed by the Master Control program. Now they serve in a virtual world ruled by the MPC where they hunt down renegade programs. The tanks were featured in the 1982 movie Tron.
Tron: Evolution Tank Battle
Fashion lookbooks can be boring.
THIS LOOKBOOK IS A SUPPORTING MATERIAL FOR DORI TOMCSANYI'S 2014/15 AUTUMN/WINTER CAMPAIGN. WE THOUGHT WE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A TWIST IN THE DRY WORLD OF LOOKBOOKS.
ALL THE DRESSES OF THE COLLECTION ARE SHOT IN A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT POSITION, SO WHEN FLIPPING IT COMES TO MOTION AND GIVES THE VIEWER THE ILLUSION OF SKIING.
BUT IF THE VIEWER WANTS TO SEE THE CLOTHES SEPERATELY THEY HAVE THE OPTION TO GO THROUGH THE BOOK PAGE BY PAGE, LOOKING AT THE DRESSES SEPERATELY. IF THE BOOK IS OPENED, THE SAME LOOK IS VISIBLE FROM THE FRONT AND FROM THE BACK, ON THE TWO SIDES OF THE PAGES, THAT GIVES YOU A WIDER PICTURE OF THE LOOK.
THE IDEA OF THIS FLIP_LOOKBOOK HAS POPPED INTO DAPHNE'S HEAD YEARS AGO, BUT THIS WAS THE COLLECTION THAT ACTUALLY MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO FINALLY PRODUCE IT. THIS MAKES US EXTREMELY HAPPY, SO WE HOPE IT BRINGS JUST AS MUCH JOY FOR YOU AS IT DID FOR US!
ALL CLOTHES BY DORI TOMCSANYI
DIRECTED BY DAPHNE SAMARAS
DOP.> MARCELL REV
MODEL_CSILLA KORMENDI ICON MODEL
ANIMATION_ANNA WONHAZ
1st AD_LILIANE SPIELMANN
2nd AD_KATI SZIL
HAIR_NORBERT KOZMA /HAVE
MAKE-UP_JUCI KOKENY /HAVE
SET_ANDRIS VIRAGH
3D PLANS_ZOLTAN KALASZI
TREES_BOGLARKA DANI
BACKGROUND_VIOLA BALAZS
BACKGROUND STRUCTURE_RICHARD ILLES
STAGE_ZSOLT BALOGH /EVENT STUDIO
LIGHTS_ TAMAS VOROS /STARLIGHT
LOCATION_ALPHAVILLE STUDIO
DRESSERS_ANDRIS WALDRON, HANNA KISS
PRODUCER_BALINT SIKO /THEGARDENSTUDIO
BTS_ VIKTOR GONCZOL
POST PRODUCTION_UMBRELLA
MUSIC_PARRA FOR CUVA - SWEPT AWAY (FEAT. ANNA NAKLAB & MR. GRAMO)
FLIPPING FINGERS_ANNA FIGNAR
FLIPPING LOCATION: UMBRELLA
SPECIAL THANKS_BENEDEK BOGNAR, BUNDIKA, CSITA, FRANYO, ELOD HALASZ, DANI HUSZAR, JANOTA, CSABA KELEMEN, REKA LORINCZ, PETER SIKO, SANDOR PAPP, NOEL VILLERS
Dori Tomcsanyi's 2014/15 autumn/winter campaign is really playful and fun, such an elegant use of a flipbook.
Gif89a Banner Ads from the late 90's
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hanging out with the team that I worked with in 1997, at a company called k2 Design Inc. The firm quickly grew from 30 to nearly 100 people while I was there. Because it was so new, and there was so much innovation, the whole thing was sort of exciting an frustrating at the same time.
One area that was growing, was digitaldisplay advertising, or online banner ads. The most economical way of producing and distributing display ads continues to be the animated gif, or GIF89a. When I was an intern at Agency.com I completed a research project on the GIF, in order to understand animation, compression, and palettes.
When I started working as an Art Director out of school in (1997-1998), one of the biggest challenges was translating brand advertising into the paid media formats of the time. The file size limits were closely controlled as not to ruin the user experience. So 468x60 banners had to be under 12k, sometimes if you were lucky you could get 15k. Below are some tests that I did to demonstrate some ideas.
3 frames / 10k / 9 colors – Fire
6 frames / 11k / 13 colors - Random Attention getting banner.
9 frames / 12k / 32 Colors- VolksWagen
10 frames / 11k / 16 colors - Mitsubishi Motors
132 frames / 10k / 16 colors - Financial Services
Business Card Speaker for iPhone5
I have always loved when business cards do something more. Leave it to the Swedes. Pause LJUD&BILD, in collaboration with akestamholst, created a fold out business card on 330 gram Plike Stock, to provide a 17% increase in volume, when used with an iPhone.
A House as Portable as Furniture
Architect Camino Alonso wanted to create a small, portable, prefab homes, but she didn't want it to feel like a shipping container. Camino, along with her husband and siblings (also architects at their firm Ábaton), created ÁPH80, a tiny home that ships like furniture, but has the style and usability of a smartphone.
©Abaton
©Abaton
Searchlight - A Technical Projection Study.
Urban Screen is a group of 8 contributors based in Bremen, Germany who have backgrounds in Architecture, Music, Stage Design, and Media art. They create custom made large scale projections of urban surfaces. This video documents an experiment that they are working on called Search Light. The projector is on a gimbal that is connected to a realtime 3d map of the room, allowing for amazing dynamic projections and for experimentation around artful and purpose driven use cases.
Amazon Prime Air - Drone Delivery
Prime Air is a service that Amazon is developing who's goal is to get customer's deliveries to them in 30 minutes or less. The R&D team at Amazon is working on using drones to deliver small packages, up to five pounds, which accounts for 86 percent of the items sold on amazon.
Amazon is working with the FAA to advance the rules and regulations to make this possible, which they say will take some years, with a goal as early as 2015. They also mention safety as their top priority.
UPDATE:
Wired debunks this Cyber Monday Hoax.
GoldieBlox - Go Girls!
It's sorta sad that the Beastie Boys are going after Goldie Blox for use of their song. Goldie Blox is a Small company, now, and it's likely the 7.2 millions plays will spern people to buy "Girls" from the Beastie Boys.
To think that it took until 2013 for this to happen. Thank you Debbie Sterling. The work that you are doing here is the most important kind. Creating a generation of future citizens that are interested in how things work. Making it desirable and competitive amongst the sexes, is truly inspiring. To see a future where there are rooms of engineers that are equal parts male as they are female will ensure a future that has less disease, less poverty, less war, and higher standards of living for all. Girls! Let's do this.
As the legal battle ensues between the Beastie Boys and Goldie Blox, I suggest that you buy from both sides of the argument.
ExFEARiential !!!!
This is really well done. great job John St!
WILD CAT
I have been following this project for a while, and am really excited to see where it's headed.
GoPro + BaldEagle =
America! F%$ Yeah!
3d Printed Dresses.
©MichaelSchmidt - Dita Von Teese
Michael Schmidt collaborated with architect Francis Bitonti to create the first articulated 3d printed dress for the Ace Hotel, Swarovski with help from Shapeways.
“The Human Hand Can Only do so much”
Francis Bitoni, created a workshop to help participants uses computational design techniques to create new means for wrapping the human form. Two teams merged two designs to create the final form that was critiqued by design, architecture, and 3d printing heavy hitters.
Better Pool Coach
PoolLiveAid is a project by Luis Sousa, Ricardo Alves, and J.M.F Rodrigues of University of the Algarve, Portugal. A snooker project capable of ball, cue and tables detection, for easy learning and move prediction.
Projects, Robots, and Cameras.
Thank you Bot&Dolly! This is amazing..
Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping onto moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera.
botndolly.com/boxJet Packs and Flying People.
Jet packs are coming. Some of the same technologies that are pushing the quadcopters into the air are making it easier to put a human in the air. This one from
Martin Aircraftis pretty special.
Evolo is a company using multiroto technology and electric motors to put humans safely into the air.
is bar far my favororite, in terms of aestetics.
*full electric* helicopter R&D prototype, is pretty sleek, but doesn't seem to have the potential to move very fast.