http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:25:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/robot-vacuum-light-paintings.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:18:28 +0000 A new art project illuminates the path of the Roomba cleaning robot, creating stunning pieces from their seemingly random movements.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/big-data-gets-small-personal-sponsored.html Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:00:08 +0000 The next phase in the information revolution will be defined by scalable, data-driven insights to available to everyone.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/iyou-exposes-communication-habits-using-an-iphones-hidden-data.html Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:45:28 +0000 iYou, an iTunes plug-in visualizes your iPhone’s unexposed data and makes your communication habits transparent.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/ambitious-technology-charts-how-babytalk-evolves-into-language.html Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:28:38 +0000 A 'Truman Show' like experiment covering 90000 hours of real life footage hopes to uncover the means by which word formation develops in babies.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/multicolor-mind-mapping.html Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:03:04 +0000 A colorful method for charting the brain offers new insights into how connections form between neurons.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/how-much-do-you-spend-getting-around.html Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:24:22 +0000 A new website helps users track and visualize their transportation costs.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/this-is-your-community-tokyo-coyote-responds-to-psfk-future-of-health-report.html Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:15:25 +0000 A retail space promotion designed to spread awareness of global health needs and to raise funds for developing outreach programs.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/infographic-future-of-health-core-themes.html Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:57:39 +0000 An graphic shows the relationship between the trends that appear in the Future of Health report and the actors, aggregators and interactions that characterize them. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/future-of-health-picturing-our-health.html Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:00:56 +0000 The development of highly visual and often interactive formats are providing experts and amateurs alike with methods for investigating health on any scale, allowing for deeper analysis and greater insight.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/05/future-of-retail-nutritional-information-through-data-visualization.html Thu, 06 May 2010 15:50:02 +0000 Can better design help us choose healthier products?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/visuzlized-music-device-plays-audio-with-dripping-water.html Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:02:11 +0000 The Visualized Music Device is a concept audio system that generates music in the form of dropping water.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/wind-powered-knitting-machine.html Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:00:34 +0000 An experimental sculpture tracks urban wind through knitting.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/02/pic-24-hours-of-mouse-usage.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:46:23 +0000 What do our digital trails look like?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/02/a-scent-visualization-tool.html Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:19:22 +0000 A group of researchers at the Univerity of Illinois have developed an inexpensive way to visualize scent through the use of specially developed inks. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/02/data-visualization-to-improve-the-world.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:59:33 +0000 Can access to information change our perspectives in how we see the world? ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/02/led-matrix-visualizes-the-wind.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:14:52 +0000 Jason Krugman is an interactive artist who explores the use of LED lighting in three-dimensional structures.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/web-seer-gives-insight-into-human-curiousity.html Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:18:31 +0000 The Web Seer is a tool that draws from Google Suggest responses associated with phrases users enter frequently, giving insight into what others are asking when they search the web. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/12/will-stoplights-with-progress-bars-reduce-environmental-impact.html Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:07:16 +0000 The Eko Light stoplight concept adds a progress bar to the outside of each light, indicating how much time will pass until the next switch.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/visualizing-bankruptcy-for-historical-perspective.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:33:49 +0000 The folks over at Good Magazine created an unsurprisingly clean and clear graph to put the recent bankruptcy of GM in perspective over the past two decades.  The design is a collaboration with Always With Honor and a full sized version can be found here. [via Good Magazine]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/minsch-twitter-in-3d.html Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:30:33 +0000 Minsh is a unique site that visualizes Twitter users as fish in a 3-dimensional, underwater world. Schools of fish gather based on their tweets. The site is in Alpha now with the Alpha 2 version to be released on July 13, 2009. Richard Banks explains: The concept behind the virtual world is that the social behaviour of fish will represent what people are talking about online. In the world of Minsh, people writing about a given subject find themselves swimming in the same school. When a person updates his or her Twitter status, the fish swims away to join peopleRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/palm-reading-to-monitor-your-health.html Thu, 21 May 2009 13:46:32 +0000 The Body Check Ball is an intriguing personal health monitoring device that calculates your body fat, bone density, and muscle ratio by sending electrode currents through your hands as you hold it. Users can store up to 10 profiles to monitor their health and those of family members. [ CNET via OhGizmo ]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/pic-roombas-invisible-dance.html Mon, 11 May 2009 14:50:26 +0000 Signaltheorist took a long exposure photo of a Roomba vacuuming his room in the dark, and the image above shows the beautiful results. It’s a wonderful visualization of the seemingly random, but effective path the cleaning robot takes over time. Engadget via Doobybrain]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/visualizing-the-780-billion-economic-stimulus.html Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:47:31 +0000 HOK pointed us to this eye-opening way of looking at the $780 billion stimulus package. The pictures speak for themselves. … And you’re not even halfway there. [via Life at HOK]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/photoshop-on-358-floppy-disks.html Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:06:19 +0000 3.5 inch floppy disks are just a nostalgic memory for some, and not even a blip on the radar for the kids out there. But back in the old days of computing, floppies were the primary way to transfer bits of data and programs between computers. We were intrigued by Antrepo Design Industry’s (who’s Time Tuner Clock we featured yesterday) humorous poster graphic that visualizes just how many floppy discs it would take to handle today’s computer programs. The image is a striking reminder of the rapid rate at which technology has advanced, and compressed physically. The poster set willRead more...]]>