The 3D Scanner for Your iPad Will Digitize Reality By Alexander George, popularmechanics.com Technology Structure Sensor plugs in to any iPad and makes a detailed 3D image of your surroundings. First outfit your iPad with this smooth and appropriately futuristic-looking appendage. Then point your tablet in any direction an… http://flip.it/d6HvI Related articles Structure Sensor. A … Continue reading Structure sensor turns any iPad into a 3d scanner
Steely Cottage steven, tinyhouseswoon.com A fully off-grid tiny house in New Mexico. http://flip.it/Wfb7D
Vintage Typewriter Keys + New Tech = Diesel Punk Keyboard? Michael Colombo, makezine.com Richard Nagy has designed and built The Executive Keyboard, taking design cues from vintage mechanical keyboards. Combined with a leatherette top and aluminum sides, it’s certainly a piece for computer gearheads to swoon over. But t… http://flip.it/lvXwo Related articles Steampunk inventor Richard … Continue reading Nagy retro steam punk executive keyboard
The jobs of the future belong to data scientists and user experience designers Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com GE and design may not seem to go together, but as it connects its industrial products, medical devices and home appliances to the internet and rethinks its business for the connected age, the company is focusing on user interfaces … Continue reading The jobs of the future belong to data science and user experience designers
I Rented Apartments Just to Rent on Airbnb for Profit Marshall Haas, thenextweb.com I rented apartments to rent on Airbnb for profit. Here’s how it turned out By Marshall Haas, , 04:59pm http://flip.it/ykRdo Related articles Airbnb updates Android app, brings reviews and host calendar view (otroandroidblog.wordpress.com) Could The Party Soon Be Over For Airbnb? (npr.org) … Continue reading Starting an Airbnb business of rental properties
An Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Look at the FireFly, an Ultra-Compact Camping Trailer Inspired by Space Travel core77.com After spending several years in the habitation department at NASA, developing living spaces for the International Space Station as well as multiple off earth exploration vehicles, designer Garrett Finney left in 2009 to launch his dream recreation… http://flip.it/m7Xto Related … Continue reading FireFly: space travel inspired ultralight camping pod
Want To Be More Productive? Buy Some Desk Plants fastcodesign.com Evidence Seriously, like yesterday. Office vegetation offers “micro-restoration”—the chance for our brains to recharge throughout the day. Few things rouse our appreciation for nature as much as spending every day in an office. Employees… http://flip.it/M0VAY Related articles Having a potted plant in the office makes … Continue reading Desk plants make you more productive
You’re Not Alone: Most People Hate Open Offices fastcoexist.com People in cubicles and open offices long for privacy and probably get less work done. That this is surprising at all speaks to the current trendiness of open layouts. The growing open office trend seems reasonable enough. The thinking goes t… http://flip.it/WcFcH Related articles You're Not … Continue reading Open offices: less productive or more?
A Reinvented Skillet, From a Cookery Guru and Obama’s Logo Designer Joseph Flaherty, wired.com Finex is trying to bring modern design to a 2,500-year-old cooking vessel. http://flip.it/RXcNa Related articles A Reinvented Skillet, From a Cookery Guru and Obama's Logo Designer (wired.com)
Even grandma can be a graphic designer with DesignMantic’s HTML5 tools Eric Blattberg, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Forget Photoshop and 99designs — DesignMantic could be the next big thing in graphic design for the common man. Or woman. Or grandma. DesignMantic offers a do-it-yourself design studio built with HTML5, so you c… http://flip.it/0U5ws Related … Continue reading DesignMantic automates web design
The fast and the furnished: A tour of modern Volkswagen bus campers C.C. Weiss, gizmag.com With the original Volkswagen T2 Microbus set for extinction, the days of VW bread loaf camper conversions appear numbered unless something like the Bulli concept comes to fruition. As Gizmag learned at the Dusseldorf Caravan Salon, however, the VW… http://flip.it/ylYYF … Continue reading Modern VW bus campers
This secretive startup plans to 3D print custom, affordable wood furniture Signe Brewster, gigaom.com The traditional wood furniture industry has its share of problems. Faced with cheap plywood and chip wood that can be packed flat to ship inexpensively before assembly, furniture made of solid wood has become rarer and more… http://flip.it/gpGfW
What is the Best American State for an Industrial Designer? core77.com If you’re an industrial designer in the U.S. and want to live someplace with a lot of job opportunities, where should you go? According to Michigan Live, the top five American states with the most industrial designers include Rhode Island,… http://flip.it/ebYjM Related articles Be … Continue reading RI among best states for UX designers
Mobile Pop-Up Shop Kit Transforms Vacant Storefronts Into Instant Community Hubs inhabitat.com An eclectic team of architects, designers, urban planners and filmmakers are giving new life to vacant storefronts on the Lower East Side with their ready-made kit of furnishings stored in a … http://flip.it/tJzAZ Related articles What Tech Hasn't Learned From Urban Planning (nytimes.com)
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How Efficient Is Your City? America’s 34 Largest Towns Get Ranked thinkprogress.org CREDIT: National Geographic / Gregory KushmerekEven the U.S. cities that have gone the furthest in building energy efficiency still have a lot of ground they could cover, according to a new report. Boston, Massachusetts — the report’s highest-scor… http://flip.it/tQvi2
The Duck Chalet Kent Griswold, tinyhouseblog.com My husband, Jeff, and I wanted to share our latest summer side-project that is now for sale – the Duck Chalet! It stemmed from our love for small, intuitively designed, and cost effective dwellings.We are both green home designers and builders her… http://flip.it/FEJnw
How to get your demo right Brad Feld, venturebeat.com I get demos every day. Multiple times a day. I don’t want to see a PowerPoint deck — I want to play with something. I don’t want to hear a description of what you do — I want to see a demo. I don’t want you … Continue reading Skip the PowerPoint and do a demo
Oorja Biomass Pellet Stove at werd.com werd.com Oorja Biomass Pellet Stove Green Product In the past few years pellet stoves for home heating have revolutionized the way people keep warm by burning renewables. They’re more efficient and t … http://flip.it/wVR2q Related articles Wood Pellet Burner the new Green way to Heat (airiernatura1.wordpress.com) Wood-Pellet Bonds Show … Continue reading Oorja biomass stove
How to Build an Evaporative Cooler Christin, wordpress.com Portable Swamp Cooler. Click for larger image.How to build a low-cost 12 volt evaporative cooler. My husband and I built two swamp coolers that we use to air condition our tent when we camp in hot, dry weather at Burning Man. These compact units b… http://flip.it/sqcvn Related … Continue reading Build your own evaporative cooler
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Can Urban Planning Turn Brooklyn Into the Next Silicon Valley? Kyle VanHemert, wired.com WXY presents a smart vision for any city seeking to accommodate innovation. http://flip.it/rrvpO
Frameless Geodesic Dome rigsomelight.com What is it? It’s a frameless geodesic dome designed to be easy to fabricate and build. It is 18 feet wide at the widest point and about 13 feet tall. It feels very spacious for it’s 209 square foo … http://flip.it/WSm4Q Related articles Tiny frameless geodesic home costs only $2100 (boingboing.net)
Thrive with Less Christina Nellemann, tinyhouseblog.com Can you not only live, but thrive, with less? A group of six college students from Michigan decided to take some time out of what they felt were lives of excess to live more minimally. They filmed the lifestyle experiment last year and made it int… http://flip.it/uGijv Related articles … Continue reading Thrive with less
Growing shoes and furniture: A design-led biomaterial revolution by Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Aug 18, 2013 5:00 pm UTC, arstechnica.com The natural world has, over millions of years, evolved countless ways to ensure its survival. The industrial revolution, in contrast, has given us just a couple hundred years to play catc … http://flip.it/P6gTH
Don’t You Wish You Were In One of These Beautiful Natural Pools? Eric Limer, gizmodo.com You’d be crazy not to love stark, modern design like the stunning Tangga House, but the natural look can be beautiful too. Take these awesome man-made pond pools from Water House for example. You can’t tell me you don’t want … Continue reading Natural, biological swimming pools
Cramming Into A Tiny House May Not Be So Bad Lily Hay Newman, gizmodo.com Between crippling recessions and human environmental impact things have gotten complicated, and frankly kind of negative. That may be why the small house movement is so appealing. Downsizing everything means less stuff to buy and maintain.… http://flip.it/CsudH Related articles At First, … Continue reading The economic benefits of a tiny house
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