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Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Lock. Why yes, I am an only child. Why do you ask?
MAKE: Japan : こんなに美しい自家製デバイス見たことない
tetsuo@skyrocket (AKA Tetsuo Kanai), makezine.comこんなに美しい自家製デバイス見たことない
イギリス人電子工作ホビイストのRupert Hirstが作った空中配線のヘッドホンアンプを12月に紹介したけど、あれはまだ製作の途中だったのだ。あの精巧に組み合わされた回路を、慎重に透明レジンで固めて、ようやく完成したのだ。型は1.5mm厚のボール紙で作り、レジンが流れ込まないようにジャック類を丁寧にシールしてた回路を中に収めた。レジンを流し込んで固めたあと、全体をベルトサンダーで平らに削り、エッジをルータで面取り加工した。最後に、紙ヤスリ、水…
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Bret Victor, beast of burden -
最近ユーザインタフェース界でその名を知らないものはいない存在になっているBret Victorの自分の履歴をインフォグラフィックスで表したもの。審美的なセンスと数理的なセンスの融合がすごい。
Bret Victorのプロダクトは専門家というより専門家以外の人を理解の水準を上げるのだ。以下の「ダイナミカルシステム」のUIにその特徴が顕著に表れている。
http://worrydream.com/InteractiveExplorationOfADynamicalSystem/
これは、力学系の概念を理解している人、つまり物理や数学の訓練を受けた人にはほとんど何も質的変化も及ぼさないのだけれど、力学系のパラメータをダイレクトに手で触れることによって、それ以外の人が直感的にダイナミカルシステムの概念を理解できるようにするのだ。
彼はUIの人に珍しく（失礼か）、数学ができ、プログラム言語もC/C++はもちろん、Scheme, Haskel, Erlang, MatLABなどを使いこなす。こういう人が現在世界を席巻しているAppleデザインに変わる次世代のデザインを生み出しそうなのだ。
(Source: finalellipsis, via ukkiuki)
Nike Air Max 90 Burger by Ollie Hemmendorff.
Photographer Thomas Jackson documents the mundane life of a robot.
Shinya Arimoto’s refrigerator
via his blog
Luminarie De Cagna, cathedral-like structure made of over 55,000 lights. You dig?
I first encountered 955 Dreams about a year ago when I came across a magical iPad app called The History of Jazz. When I sat down with co-founder Kiran Bellubbi to talk about the app for a TechCrunch story, it was immediately apparent that his vision extended far beyond just one beautiful app.
I kicked off my story with something he said to me: “The shallow experience for a user has to be very interesting. The deep experiences have to be profound.” In the app-crazy world we live in, it’s not uncommon to hear developers attempt to get philosophical. But with Bellubbi, I totally bought it.
And my instinct about Bellubbi and co-founder T.J. Zark proved correct. They followed up The History of Jazz with the equally brilliant On The Way To Woodstock. Both apps got Apple’s seal of approval in the form of App of the Week accolades.
With the looming price increase, a 25% jump on all Kodak products, there were several people in Yodobashi Camera tonight stocking up now to save money later. I chatted with Shinya Arimoto about this earlier in the day- he suggested to offset the increase by shooting 25% less- instead of taking four shots of something only take three. He laughed and said that this is probably impossible though. Arimoto shoots a lot of Kodak film (T-Max) and like me uses Kodak HC-110 to develop his negs. Unlike me however, he orders his 20 bottles at a time.)
Keep in mind the people in the image above are not ”hoarding” out of fear that all Kodak films will disappear tomorrow. Kodak says that their film business is profitable. Let’s hope it stays that way.
(via varietyofcameras)
Okay, this is really fucking cool. It’s what the Internet is all about. Nice work Facebook and Bing.
