nice packaging (and taste!)

found at tonybennett.hu uk and us tea specialist

9-bits:

Samsung’s Transparent Smart Window

I’m not normally very interested in the products Samsung releases, but it’s easy to see why this is a 2012 CES innovation award winner.

thearchtivist:

Secret Passageway Switch (Lamp)

I want this.

Edward Tufte, “Touchscreens have no hand” (via austinkleon

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designisforliving:

alec soth artist, sleeping by the mississippi. peter’s houseboat, winona, minnesota 2002

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(Source: fastcodesign.com)

The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com

(via Ronen Glimer)

I remember first having an inkling of this about a year ago while I was having dinner in San Francisco with my friends Mai and Alicia. At the time, Mai had a cult Twitter following as “Banh Mai, delivering banh mi sandwiches from her bike, and she and Alicia started talking about the latest gossip from the vibrant SF food cart scene. After listening to them say things like “Did you hear the Adobo Hobo is coming out of retirement for one night only?” it occurred to me that they sounded like they were talking about punk bands, not food carts.

The more I thought about it the more the comparison between SF food carts and indie rock seemed apt. The scene has gone a bit more legit now that the city has relaxed some of its restrictions, but at the time the SF food cart underground was below-the-radar, loosely coordinated via Twitter, and ephemeral. Because of the low barrier to entry and perceived ease of skirting regulations, many new food carts would pop up overnight, amass a cult following, and then disappear just as quickly as they showed up—almost like modern day, culinary punk bands. Others, like Hapa Ramen or Mission Street Food, have grown up to become important mainstream parts of the SF restaurant scene.

I was working for Square at the time, which made me think a lot about San Francisco’s “food carts as indie rock” scene as the harbinger of a much larger, technology-driven cultural trend toward personal expression through casual entrepreneurship. I think William Deresiewicz really nails this when he says “The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.”

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Today we have visual cues that tell us what can be touched, interacted with. In tomorrow’s future perfect the cues will be to tell us what cannot be touched.

Jan Chip Chase is still the man!

ckck:

The Ford Gyron two-wheeled concept car from 1961.

Once we believed in the future so much. Let’s get back to it!

Amazing walking cycle!

Invisible visuals for computer recognition.

theabsolution:

Bend Desk is a prototype interactive display that takes the digital workspace from the screen to the desktop by the media computing group at RWTH aachen university. While a typical work setup combines a flat desktop with a vertical computer screen, bend desk combines the two into one single unit. bend desk is a vision for a future workspace that allows continuous interaction between both areas. using multi-touch technology, the display curves from a horizontal plane to a vertical plane.

A dream come true!

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wingthread:

floresenelatico:

La Machine. kinetic sculpture

not sure what this is (space fairy birdcage?), but I’d like to stay awhile.  

Kenneth Goldsmith (via austinkleon)

Use analogue to generate scarcity and therefore artificial value.

Treating your special clients with offline materials could make them feel your relationship special. In turn the convenience of digital makes it a non-experience.

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