StickyGram Project Lets You Create Instagram Magnets, by Mint Digital
The Stickygram project from the creative technology company Mint Digital offers a personalized printing service that turns your Instagram images into beautiful and practical magnets.
You can create your own set and it gets delivered to your door. Each magnet is 5×5 cm – about 2 inches – the size of the Instagram on your phone. Instagram is a free photo sharing program applying a digital filter to your photos and then allowing to share them on a variety of social networking services.
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“Virgin Atlantic Airways Upper Class Bar and Cabin”, by VW+BS Studio
The London-based multi-disciplinary design practice VW+BS studio in partnership with the Virgin Atlantic team offered a new experience to passengers flying between London and New York, up at 30,000 ft.
Following the will of Virgin to be the industry innovator in trends in travel, VW + BS was commissioned to create an exciting social space while meeting massive technical requirements with the strictest safety regulations.
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“WaveJet” Is Now Available With Different Surfboard Styles
The WaveJet Surfoboard was announced last year. It is now available for preorder.
The revolutionary propulsion system, made of a propulsion pod providing 20 pounds of thrust, can also be ordered separate form the surfboard to be fitted into any board, kayak or watercraft.
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“Power Flowers”, by NL Architects
Amsterdam-based NL Architects’ Power Flowers offer a way to bring wind turbines into cities with no inconvenience from citizens.
Giving sustainable energy generation a sculptural appearance, NL Architects’ Power Flowers can embrace a natural arboreal form and harness the breeze to provide energy.
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“The Bloom”, Breathing Architecture Installation Made Of 14,000 Pieces
Since last November, a shiny undulating installation can be seen on Material & Application’s courtyard on Silver Lake Boulevard, Los Angeles. The center for architecture and landscape research shows “The Bloom”, a 14,000 pieces of thermobimetal installation designed by University of Southern California architect professor Doris Kim Sung, in collaboration with Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter and Matthew Melnyk.
Two metallic sheets, each with different expansion rates, are laminated together. According to the temperature, the metal sheets curl up or flatten out. The 6-meters tall experiment will have big implications in energy savings architecture, it is a chance to change the way we think.
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“Meme” Camera As Jewelry, by Artefact Group
The Seattle-based partnership Artefact Group designed “Meme”, a new concept of wearable technology and instant sharing.
Meme is a fashionable, wearable 8 MP camera to capture images in the moment. The pictures can be seen on the e-ink display, stored and transmitted through Bluetooth 4.0 to a phone. One single button triggers the shutter.
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“Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera”, by Jonas Pfeil
Berlin-based computer engineer Jonas Pfeil and his team created the “Throwable Panoramin Ball Camera”, a very playful and enjoyable device that takes spherical panoramic pictures in a couple of seconds.
Here is a new concept: while visiting great places, one can just throw the ball and explore a full representation of the captured environment. The robust 3D-printed and padded with foam ball encloses 36 fixed-focus 2-megapixel mobile phone camera modules and an accelerometer used to measure launch acceleration. Integration predicts the rise time to the highest point, where the cameras are triggered.
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“Bamboo Cases For Macs”, by Silva Limited
Oregon-based carpenter named Justin joined his two passions of woodwork and Mac products and created Bamboo Cases for protection.
The cases are made of solid sheets of bamboo. Once cut, they are sanded, glued, felted and finished by hand. The leather strap comes from a full cowhide, which has been cut into stripes and shaped to get a comfortable feel, then hand burnished and oiled.
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“Windows Of Opportunity”, by GM & Bezalel Future Lab
“Windows Of Opportunity – WOO” is an interactive car windows project, fruit of the collaboration between GM and the students of the “Future Lab” Masters Course at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. The project focuses on transforming car windows into interactive displays and to create an enriched experience for the backseat passengers.
Full-scale prototypes are now functional. The technology used is named Eyeclick and combines motion and optical sensors. Different applications are in development.
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“Basic House”, by Martin Azua
Barcelona (Spain) based designer Martin Azua created the Basic House, a temporary housing solution so portable you can fold it up to fit in your pocket.
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“Olly and Molly”, by Foundry at Mind Digital
Smell is the most under-used sense of the human body. Foundry, a small research team at Mint Digital, created a small device to stimulate the entire spectrum of our human powers during the day. Olly is a small robot that diffuses a fragrance of your choice when you receive emails, re-tweets, etc. As a modular system, Olly will have its own website from which one can customize the way the smelly robot responds to web stimuli.
And then, to complete the experience with taste, Foundry released Molly, a little brother of Olly, that graduates from scent to candy, dispensing one’s chosen sweets upon receipt of virtual notifications.
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“Boardwalk Empire” Virtual Effects (VFX) Breakdowns of Season 2
It is amazing what Computer Graphics (CG) can do these days. Check out the construction from the Emmy award-winning team at Brainstorm Digital. Here is the video of the before and after shots from season 2 of HBO’s hit series “Boardwalk Empire” (courtesy of Home Box Office, Inc).
“New Basics”, by Alain Berteau
Belgian designer Alain Berteau presents a series of oak basics at Maison & Objet in Paris this week.
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“Smart Window”, by Samsung
Samsung turns your household glass and windows into a touchscreen computer. or show floating apps and images to get on with emails, the weather, recipes and watch TV.
The panel is only visible from the inside and has got a virtual blind feature. It’s a very nice feature for casual information available at hand. The technology will be available from next month.
“Pentagonal House” by Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio
Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio built the Pentagonal House for a couple in Nagoya, Japan, in the same lot as the Japanese style house that their parents live in.
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“LuminAID”, by Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta
LuminAID is a solar-charged inflatable waterproof non-submersible lamp. Flat and light it will provide six hours of LED light. 
According to Anna Storrk, co-founder of LuminAID, the object is designed to prevent an uncomfortable situation of darkness in the event of a natural disaster. “We wanted to design a portable light that could be easily distributed.”
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“Energy Return Wheel”, by Brian Russell
Here is another non-pneumatic tire, but this one isn’t passive: it absorbs and release energy actively. The Energy Return Wheel spins shock absorption events into a modicum of forward motion for a safer and more efficient design. The idea appeared to the inventor, Brian Russell, while he was designing sneakers.
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The “Spinner 360” Camera, by Lomography
The ‘spinner 360°‘ camera by Lomography takes panoramic pictures on 35mm film, spinning its lens with the pull of a drawstring .The device captures complete 360 degree images in between 1/125 and 1/250 of a second, but one can choose to release the string slowly by hand for a longer exposure footage. Vertical panoramas are achieved by simply rotating the camera.
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“The Cube”, by Electrolux
A breathtaking view of the rooftops of Duomo and beyond: the entire city and surrounding Alps. The temporary restaurant travelling across Europe has landed in the Italian city of Milan, after topping up the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Cinquantenaire in Brussels.
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“Trumstand”, Acoustic Amplifier by Pleiades
Japanese manufacturer Pleiades has created this fantasist “Trumstand”: an old style speaker made of brass suits designed for the iPhone. Its “S”-shape increases the bass.
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Spontaneous Design Materialisation Video, by Paul Clements
This amazing video from motion designer Paul Clements features “spontaneous design” or how objects spring to life in a perfect world. Behind the visualisation a fluid and spontaneous design, the amount of sketching, 3D work, mock-ups and testing to needed to perfect these Ministry of Sound headphones ensure their perfected standard quality. High grade anodised aluminium cups allow these headphones to deliver the finest unparalleled audio quality, cushioned by premium leather feel pads.
“Empty Memory”, USB Memory Sticks Collection
Designers Yoo-Kyung Shin and Hanhsi Chen have draw a creative collection of USB memory sticks for Logical Art. The themes of the collection, structure and transparency, suggest that you can fill them up with your memories.
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“Kube2″, Mp3 Player by Bluetree Electronics
‘Kube2’ is today’s smallest touch mp3 player. Produced in Singapore by Bluetree Electronics, its aluminum body has a touch sensor for screen navigation while removable sticker skins offer customizable looks.
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