Category — design

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

Some photos tagged robot:

[YouTube | via Joren]

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There is an interesting post over at ReadWriteWeb about how how people are creating new user interfaces to deal with information overload. Check it out.

Flickr Slideshow:

“Symbiotic and multi-scalar, SF HYDRO-NET is an occupiable infrastructure that organizes critical flows of the city. HYDRO-NET provides an underground arterial traffic network for hydrogen-fueled hover-cars, while simultaneously collecting, storing and distributing water and power tapped from existing aquifer and geothermal sources beneath San Francisco. A new aquaculture zone with ponds of algae and forests of sinuous housing towers reoccupy Baylands inundated by rising sea levels. Hydrogen fuel is produced by the algae, and is stored and distributed within the nanotube wall structure of HYDRO-NET’s robotically-drilled tunnels. At key waterfront and neighborhood locales, HYDRO-NET emerges to form linkages between the terrestrial and subterranean worlds. Here new architectures bloom as opportunistic urban caves and outcroppings, fostering new social spaces and densified urban forms, fed by the resources and connectivity provided by HYDRO-NET. These locally responsive and distributed nodes and tendrils facilitate both the preservation and organic evolution of San Francisco.”

Richard Meier writes:
“The number of urban dwellers is expected to rise sharply in the future. Addressing this fact, this vision for the future of San Francisco proposes a new network of infrastructure below the surface of the city that will help the region maximize and distribute its resources. Called ‘Hydronet,’ the system will not only provide tunnels for a new generation of hover-cars, but also collection and distribution systems for water and power. The proposal identifies places where drinkable water might be harvested from both the sky and the earth, where heat might be extracted or dissipated deep in the strata below the city, and where new hydrogen based energy might be generated from algae fields. The city’s signature waterfront is repopulated with a series of eco-towers that animate the skyline and are linked to the network of infrastructure.”

[History Channel City of the Future | IwamotoScott Architecture]

“LINC is leased to the user as a service, not a product.”

It’s like netflix but for cell phones. You hold onto it for a year then it gets shipped back to the factory to be disassembled. They send you a newer phone with the latest hardware.

[Read More | via Kitsune Noir]

“Current State is a real-time energy use monitoring system and timer for powered devices combined into one. The Current State system is made up of two parts, a mobile application for you cell phone, which allows you to control and monitor electricity use from anywhere, and a series of Plug-Ends that give you control over the products around your house.”

[The Greener Grass | via Kitsune Noir]

photo by jurveston

1. Earthquake Towers
2. Tectonic Warfare
3. Igneous Printheads
4. Colored Magma
5. Slow Sculpture

What the heck is this?

[Read the full article @ io9]

[via smashing magazine]