3D printed lamps by Bathsheba Grossman
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Vincent Fournier’s follow-up to his wonderful Man Machine and Space Projects is every bit as intriguing as his previous work.
At the beginning of XXI century the genetic modification has taken two new paths. On the one hand, synthetic biology, which combines genetic engineering and, secondly, the reprogramming of stem cells leads to the production of new cells, new fabrics and new bodies.
Living species from synthetic biology, integrating new DNA fragments and artificial elements (eg metal or electronics), have new properties to better adapt to new environments (and accompanying events as drought stress, disease, predators) due to climate change.
Living organisms whose cells have been genetically manipulated strains show new opportunities or performance properties: better acuity or vision, increased breathing capacity, longer life expectancy … Also, these neo-beings have characteristics to better adapt to different environments, new scalable.
Post Natural History archives report on these two lines of research pioneered by the very creation of these bodies, synthetics, improved or increased.
These images are some of the new additions to the Cassini HD app for iPad from our most recent update (now available in the ITunes store). Check it out for many more beautiful photos and amazing discoveries from NASA’s Cassini orbiter.
These false-color images of a hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole can now be found in our Cassini HD app for iPad. Download our newest update in the iTunes store for more stunning images of Saturn and its moons.
Some of the new views of Saturn’s moons now available in our Cassini HD for iPad update in iTunes.
We’ve just added new images to our Cassini HD for iPad app. Look for the new update in the ITunes store for these and many more beautiful photos of Saturn and its moons.
New-world technology meets old-world problems with these corkscrews from my Thinx Gifts store.
If you’re an Apple fan or a nostalgic gamer you’re going to love this series of schematic posters by City Prints. Click on the images to see which retro devices are represented.
Xchange by Nick Gentry
About his work:
Much of his artistic output has been generated with the use of contributed artefacts and materials. He states that through this process “contributor, artist and viewer come closer together”. His art is influenced by the development of consumerism, technology, identity and cyberculture in society, with a distinctive focus on obsolete media.
Immaterials by Onformative imagines the form of metadata.
Onformative on their project:
Immateriality as material is currently being discovered, opening up a new poetic field in which to narrate with space and information. Location-based metadata waft through the space, and are thereby redefining contexts and places. A new field opens up to designers.
If you’re a Flipboard user, you’ve probably already heard about their new feature that allows users to create curated “magazines” and share them. I thought it sounded like fun, so I started one. You can find my Thinx magazine here.
50 Different Minds by Ligorano/Reese
About the project:
We have made a new media art form called The Fiber Optic Tapestry. Fiber optic panels are woven on a handloom and attached to a custom made, computer controlled lighting system, which displays information from the internet onto the tapestry’s surface.
The tapestry parses information from Twitter and other data sources to display color, light, and pattern onto woven fiber optic panels using RGB LEDs. The resulting real-time animation is an abstract, data visualization that continually updates as data changes.
You can learn more about it and see it in motion here:
Bone furniture by Joris Laarman
About the project:
Ever since industrialization took over mainstream design we have wanted to make objects inspired by nature: from art nouveau and jugendstil to streamline and the organic design of the sixties. But our digital age makes it possible to not just use nature as a stylistic reference, but to actually use the underlaying principles to generate shapes like an evolutionary process…
Trees have the ability to add material where strength it is needed, and bones have the ability to take away material where it is not needed. With this knowledge the International Development Centre Adam Opel GmbH, a part of General Motors Engineering Europe created a dynamic digital tool to copy these ways of constructing used for optimizing car parts. In a way it quite precisely copies the way evolution constructs. We didn’t use it to create the next worlds most perfect chair, but as a high tech sculpting tool to create elegant shapes with a sort of legitimacy. After a first try-out and calculation of a paper Bone Chair, the aluminium Bonechair was the first made in a series of 7. The process can be applied to any scale until architectural sizes in any material strength. The Bone furniture project started in 2004 with a the research of Claus Mattheck and Lothar Hartzheim, published on Dutch science site Noorderlicht.
SXSW has begun! If you need a little help figuring out which parties to go to, you can download our app here.
I’m going to be checking out some of the mobile events, and of course I’ll be at the Tumblr events. I hope to see you at one of them!
Thanks to everybody who has already downloaded our new app! We’re delighted to see that we can expect so many international visitors! Welcome to Austin!
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