Category — design

Timex, in collaboration with Core77, held a global design competition called 2154: the future of time design. The above is one of winners.

“TX54 is a disposable timepiece that is worn on the user’s thumbnail. While its translucency makes it blend seamlessly with the hand, a selection of text color options and a glow feature that activates on command make it easy to read.

Friend: Timekeeping goes off the wrist and onto the fingernail. Let’s see, when I fly to Europe, I can keep New York time on my left hand and London on the right!

Moya: I thought this was a solid idea that was very personal and the design was well executed. The concept addressed the triumvirate of appearance, user interface, and technology. Better yet, it gives more than a passing nod to marketability.”

[Core77 / Timex]

Because putting your hand under the faucet was too hard.

[via dvice]

[Concept by Ozkan Coral via ecofriend]

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Impressive.

“Belgian designer Vincent Callebaut, the Lilypad’s creator, describes the city as a “floating ecopolis for climate refugees,” but it looks more like a resort than a shelter. Inspired by nature, it’s designed to house 50,000 people displaced from the effects of global warming and other ecological disasters, and be entirely self-sufficient so it doesn’t contribute to the problem. As a floating city, it can really pick and choose how it gets its energy since wind, solar and hydropower are all easily accessible, and all food and water could be grown or processed. The artificial yet natural landscape won’t have climate refugees feeling like they live on a junker from Waterworld, either.”

“It’s just about the most fashionable way to weather any ecological nightmare. While the Lilypad may never see the light of day, any zero-emission city design is certainly a step in the right direction.”

[via DVICE]

“With the development of the BMW GINA Light Visionary Model the BMW Group presents trendsetting solutions. Chris Bangle gives us a first impression of the ideas behind the process of sculpturing an experimental study. This is the story behind this innovation!”

The Pharos Lens
Drawn from the lighthouse metaphor, the Pharos lens offers a point of reference. It signals and documents the environmental and social performance of products in the marketplace. The Pharos Label will accompany the lens and offer more information than any other green label in the market, including the ability to compare the actual ingredients and attributes of products that bear the label.

Lens Description
The Lens is comprised of a series of wedges that are each assigned a different social or environmental issue. The number of current wedges was determined through a consensus process amongst the Pharos Project team reflecting their vision and expertise. The wedges are not arbitrarily capped at a certain number. This preliminary list of issues is meant to start the discussions on the Pharos Wiki.

The overall intent of the tool will be to organize a vast amount of important environmental and social information into a format that is easily grasped by the consumer. Color is used to set the tool apart with shades of red, yellow, and green graphically showing relative performance on the scale.
Organized around the lens are a series of concentric circles creating the evaluation scale for any particular issue/wedge. The scales are not intended to be the same for each issue – in fact, each will have to reflect the particular set of issues that govern it.

The wedges are grouped into three sectors that serve as organizing elements within the Pharos tool:

• Environment & Resources
• Health & Pollution
• Social & Community

The lens demonstrates the ultimate complexity of material evaluations by highlighting all the issues at once showing that some products may do well in some categories, but poorly in others. It also allows for organizations and individuals to focus in on specific issues in more detail, or to consider a broad range of issues in its selection of materials.

[Pharos Project]

Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo | listen to this while watching

Some photos tagged robot:

[YouTube | via Joren]