Next week, PSFK will be hosting Good Ideas Salon, Brooklyn. We’ll be enjoying local fare, and featuring a panel of guest speakers discussing small batch culture and local entrepreneurship.
Read more...November 3, 2009
October 30, 2009
Graffiti Analysis 2.0
Graffiti Analysis 2.0 takes live tags and drawings and transforms them into active 3D animations. Even Roth’s project was demonstrated recently at the BLK River Festival in Vienna.
Read more...Better Design Through Life Cycle Assessment
Sustainable Minds has created a piece of software that can help asses life cycle impact of potential products based on factors such as materials used.
Read more...(Pic) Real Time Status Updates for NYC Subway Line
LCD screens have been set up on the L subway line in New York City which display the exact location of trains on the line, so travelers can better understand how long the wait will be.
Read more...(Video) Flyvertising at the Frankurt Book Fair
In a disturbing example of invasive advertising, German agency Jung von Matt has come up with “flyvertising”.
Read more...Colorful Attention Maps That Use Flickr as a Paintbrush
Andy Woodruff at Cartogrammar has created a series of maps that use Flickr as a paintbrush.
Read more...October 29, 2009
H&M’s Analog Retail Search Engine
Celebrating H&M Home’s transition from an online and catalog retailer to a physical showroom, design firm UXUS have constructed a unique experimental retail installation.
Read more...Moving Toward a Geek Culture
Writer / actor John Hodgman has presented an interesting theory about a coming geek-centric future in a recent interview with the Kansas City News.
Read more...Small Scale Rice Farming in Japan
Rice farming usually conjures mental images of vast, sprawling rice paddies. That’s not always the case, as Tokyo Green Space recently discovered.
Read more...(Pics) Clic Ceramics
Transforming everyday ceramic tableware into an almost alien, industrial form, Lisa Grahner’s “Clic Ceramics” is a unique system that combines sculpture and utility.
Read more...Interactive Wallpaper: The Living Wall Project
The Living Wall Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is aimed at creating electronically enhanced wallpaper that will be able to turn on and control devices.
Read more...(Video) Google CEO Explains the Future of the Web
Read Write Web points us to an interview that Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google gave at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009 on what the web will be like in five years.
Read more...University Creates Catharsis Chambers for Stress Release
China’s Central South University has set up a new facility to help students deal with emotional stress.
Read more...October 28, 2009
DIY Molecular Gastronomy
Nerdcore points us to a new kit for aspiring chef-scientists looking to try their hand at molecular gastronomy.
Read more...Outlier’s Hi-Tech Merino Hoodie
Outlier has released their take on the hoodie – a hi-tech version made of Merino Wool.
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