At one small seed we believe in the power of unique ideas and novel concepts. Ranging from technology, design, art and music, we’ve compiled a collection of crazy, fascinating, funny and bizarre findings that we think would be of interest to you. Here are some of our favourite finds this past week… Stay tuned for weekly material!
3Doodler, image: the3doodler.com
It’s a pen that can draw in the air! 3Doodler is the world’s first and only 3D Printing Pen. Using ABS plastic (the material used by many 3D printers), 3Doodler draws in the air or on surfaces. It’s compact and easy to use, and requires no software or computers. You just plug it into a power socket and can start drawing anything within minutes. Lift your imagination off the page!
source: The 3Doodler, YouTube
Google Glasses
image: google.com/glass/start/
Google Glass are high-tech spectacles featuring a revolutionary digital interface that enable its wearers to not only view the world through Google’s eyes but also automatically photograph all that they see. Sounds crazy? Well, it’s pretty simple, according to Google.
Say “take a picture” to take a picture. Record what you see, hands free. Even share what you see, live. Directions are right in front of you. Speak to send a message, or translate your voice. Get the notifications that matter most. Ask whatever’s on your mind and get answers without having to ask.
All video footage captured through Glass. Welcome to a world through Glass. See more, here
source: google.com/glass, YouTube
Dead Drops: File Sharing in a Public Space
Dead Drops ‘How to’ – NYC from aram bartholl on Vimeo
Dead Drops, image: screen shot
Started by Berlin-based artist Aram Bartholl in 2010, Dead Drops is an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file-sharing network in a public space. USB flash drives are embedded into the walls of buildings and curbs that are accessible to anybody in the public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop into a wall, house or pole to share your favourite files and data. With the exception of a readme.txt file explaining the project, each dead drop is installed empty. Dead Drops is open to participation. If you want to install a dead drop in your city or neighbourhood follow the ‘how to’ instructions and submit the location and pictures.
source: Dead Drops, Vimeo
Slow Motion for Real Life
The Decelerator Helmet – A slow motion for Real Life from Lorenz Potthast on Vimeo
Decelerator Helmet, screen shot
In an increasingly hectic, over-stimulated and restless environment the calls for deceleration are omnipresent. In many cases, the inconceivable amount of information and influences in our everyday lives leads to an excessive demand.
The Decelerator Helmet offers an experimental approach to an essential subject of our globalised world. The technical reproducible senses are consigned to an apparatus that allows the user to perceive the world in slow motion. The float of time as an apparently invariant constant is broken and subjected to the user’s control. The idea to decouple the personal perception from the natural timing enables the user to become aware of his own time.
source: lorenzpotthast.de/deceleratorhelmet
Dennis P Paul‘s Instrument For The Sonification Of Everyday Things
An Instrument for the Sonification of Everday Things from Dennis P Paul on Vimeo.
The Sonification of Everyday Things, image: screen shot
This is a serious musical instrument. It rotates everyday things, scans their surfaces, and transforms them into audible frequencies. A variety of everyday objects can be mounted into the instrument. Their silhouettes define loops, melodies and rhythms. Thus, mundane things are reinterpreted as musical notation. Playing the instrument is a mixture of practice, anticipation, and serendipity. The instrument was built from aluminium tubes, white POM, black acrylic glass, a high precision distance measuring laser (with the kind support of Micro-Epsilon), a stepper motor, and a few bits and bobs.
The unwritten processing, along with a custom programmed translator and controller module, transforms the measured distance values into audible frequencies, notes, and scales. It also accurately controls the stepper-motor’s speed to sync with other instruments and musicians.
source: dennisppaul.de, vimeo
Filament Mind
Filament Mind from yongjulee on Vimeo
Filament Mind, image: screen shot
Filament Mind is a human, information-driven installation designed to visualize the collective curiosities and questions of Teton County Library visitors through a dynamic and interactive spatial sculpture. It’s inspired by the concept that our civic spaces should be intelligent and responsive, communicating as much to us as we do to each other, enabling a form of intra-environmental social interaction between our thoughts and the material of our built environments. Read more, HERE
source: Vimeo
Audio Book
image: behance.net/gallery/Audio-Book/7291561
Audio Book is an up-cycling project utilising used browsing copies of books discarded by book stores. It explores the amalgamation of the analogue with the digital by word-playing the two words ‘AUDIO’ and ‘BOOK’. This is a contributing piece for the Browsing Series project where browsing copies of books are given a new lease of life.
source: behance.net
.fluid: A reactive surface
.fluid – A reactive surface from Hannes Kalk on Vimeo
.fluid, image: screen shot
Imagine surfaces start to communicate with you. Your mobile gets goose skin when your lover texts you. Your Wi-Fi controller changes the look and feel of its surface according to different gaming situations. Your sofa gives you a short massage as a warm welcome when you return home from a hard day of work. Your laptop feels dried out when its battery status is getting low.
.fluid is a concept study of an interacting, changing surface. While getting input from the hands of its spectators, its surface changes from liquid to solid, from plain to three-dimensional symmetric patterns. It provokes you to get in touch with it, to play with its open interface, and to collaborate with other people to find out how far you can push it.
This object was the result of the two week project »Talk to me – Form follows mood« supervised by Prof. Andreas Muxel at KISD (Köln International School of Design).
source: cargocollective.com/hnx, Vimeo
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