A super-small house achieves
by admin on April 30th, 2007
Richard Horden looks to a lustrous time in design with his Micro Compact, 10-foot-square houses— a time when it was actually a pleasure.to fly in an airplane.
The Micro Compact Home takes cues from airline technology to incorporate electrical outlets, LED lighting, a microwave, and two flat-screen televisions into the 100-square-foot space. The house includes a […]
James Clar 3D Display Cube Now on Sale
by admin on October 18th, 2006
The Display Cube was created as a reaction to the
limitations of current display technologies. Televisions and monitors
can only 2d information because their display surface is flat. The 3D
Cube uses a spatial array of LEDs that each act as a spatial pixel,
allowing it to create true spatial forms and animations.
The 3D Cube’s technology is backed by […]
Graffiti Research Lab’s video of Maker Faire
by Mark Frauenfelder on May 3rd, 2006
Mark Frauenfelder:
Grafiti Research Lab, inventors of the fantabulous LED Throwie, made a wonderful short video of their happening at Maker Faire.
Link (thanks, Huong!)
LED Bonsai Tree
by koibito on April 22nd, 2006
If you like technology and if you like traditional Japanese art, you should try to build your own LED bonsai tree. There is one simple tutorial that describe one cool way to make it using 1152 LED’s and 256 resistors.
The base is a flower pot and a disk of wood with a ring of holes for the wire “roots” to pass through. The wood is resined into the flower pot which is topped up with a mixture of peat and PVA to form a hard soil-like surface.
“The number of flowers was chosen to be a binary multiple to make it easier to twist the wire together in a way that allows pairs of branches to combine progressively until there is just one big trunk of 256 wires going into the base. All 256 wires are electrically functional and were colour coded brown for +ve and green for -ve to make wiring easier while giving a natural appearance(!).”
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Z Island by DuPont Corian
by admin on April 14th, 2006
Filed under: Decor
Is this the kitchen of the future? Innovative
architect Zaha Hadid partnered with Corian and Ernestomeda to create the Z Island by DuPont Corian. The kitchen
island, which was shown off at Milan Design week, has two free-standing island units, one for "fire" and one
for "water," a modular wall cabinet, a wall covering system with special light and sound diffusion
capabilities, and a long work bench. The main island unit can change from a horizontal cooking and eating
surface into a vertical digital surface with an LCD screen for TV or computer use and an iPod. The cooking
area has a special heating plate and the main island has a touch control panel. The wall treatment has acoustic
properties and a customized LEDs that allows the user to change the music and lighting. The kitchen island even has a
scent diffusion system that can be programmed to dispense different scents throughout the day. Pictures of the Z island
in Milan can be found at designws.com.
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