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Shannon O'Hare's Recycled Material Mobile Victorian House Sets Sail for Desert Lands Read more: Shannon O'Hare's Recycled Material Mobile Victorian House Sets Sail for Desert Lands

http://inhabitat.com/shannon-ohares-recycled-material-mobile-victorian-house-sets-sail-for-desert/

比起Cool 我更喜歡怪！

Misfit's Shine

http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/misfit-s-shine-outshines-the-fuelband

ろうそくの明かりでほっこりものづくり「デナリと図工の時間」

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Eames chair reimagined as spinal 3D printed sculpture

Architects Matt Compeau and Bi-Ying Miao — previously covered for their Hot Pop Factory launch — recently participated in some new parametric design work. The pair were invited to work with Levitt Goodman Architects onreDesign 2012, which saw 40 Eames chair designs reimagined in different ways.

http://blog.ponoko.com/2012/11/08/eames-chair-reimagined-as-spinal-3d-printed-sculpture/

Air-Powered Motorcycle Runs on Scuba Tank, Rotary Engine

“When the air comes out, it’s in the same state as when you compressed it,” Benstead said. “You haven’t technically used anything.”

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/11/air-motorcycle/

Yusuke Yamamoto and his "Moveable Movie Theater" project

 

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I like it!. Because it also can work as movable library

Kivy - Open source Python library for rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps.

http://kivy.org/#home

Temple Grandin's brain doesn't just think differently, it is physically different

This is kind of neat. Scientists conducted several psychological and neuro-imaging tests on Temple Grandin — the woman who has used her own autism as a model for designing better livestock control systems. What they found is that Grandin's brain looks different, structurally, from that of a neuro-typical person.

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CanUgan Disability Support Project

Uganda is home to five million people with disabilities, whether from birth defects, malnutrition, disease or injuries sustained during the violence-wracked internal conflicts. Whatever the cause, Ugandans without the use of their legs have, in the past, been unable to use bicycles. And as Uganda is one of the poorest countries on this Earth, the bicycle is a crucially important method of transportation there. Without it, some cannot earn a living.

http://www.core77.com/blog/transportation/canugan_x_mukiika_turning_old_bicycles_into_hand-powered_trikes_for_the_disabled_23692.asp

3D-Printed Optics Using Clear Resin

Check the video, you will learn more.

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/10/05/3d-printed-optics-using-clear-resin/

Aluminum Casts of Ant Colonies Reveals Insect Architecture

via Core77 <-- More amazing photos

美麗的地球 by Envisat Satalite

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NHK 簡易新聞日語

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/index.html

學習日語的好幫手！

TEDxTaipei 2012 年會- The Future is Now

http://www.accupass.com/go/TEDxTaipei2012

奇怪之前都沒聽說！

Catch the Sun (Book with NFC)

Catch the Sun is the world’s first book with NFC semiconductor technology integrated inside, while the content of this high-tech book is about the beautiful magic of low-tech ballooning. The book has multiple NFC chips inside that allow the book to connect to the internet, simply by touching an NFC-hotspot in the book with your NFC-enabled smartphone or tablet.

 

Use NFC technology in this book to:

• download the title song Catch the Sun

• watch video clips

• learn more about NFC

• share your experience via social media

• program an NFC-chip yourself with the help of your smartphone and the right app

 

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Sensu Portable Artist Brush & Stylus for Touchscreen Devices

It looks and feels like a traditional artist’s paint brush, but — unlike the real thing — this one uses conductive, synthetic hair that makes it perfect for use on touchscreen devices. I used it with ArtRage on an iPad (don’t worry, it will work on touchscreen Android devices as well) and the Sensu Artist Brush is the missing piece that makes the experience. Finger painting is one thing, and using your imagination with a stylus is another, but there’s a real visceral appeal to wielding an actual brush when painting with a digital brush onscreen. Even better, there is no artificial-feeling drag that would make it feel as though you are dragging rubber across the display and with the ArtRage/iPad combo I tested on; the software was completely responsive to the brush. GadgetLab named the Sensu Artist Brush as one of its Nine Items That’ll Take You to Tomorrow last year, and I can confirm that it does live up to the hype. At $39.99, you pay only a modest premium compared to a standard stylus.

via Wired

Globalfoundries unveils 14nm-XM chip architecture

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好神奇的MOS架構！

Pattern for crocheted Panzer tank slippers

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好酷的編織拖鞋！

No Place Like Home GPS Shoes

"Dominic Wilcox has created a fully functional prototype pair of shoes that will guide you home no matter where you are in the world."

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Kinect Physics Tutorial for Processing

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美麗的地球夜景

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Testing 30 brands of batteries

Batteries come packaged in bright blister packs emblazoned with vague guarantees such as “45% more pictures” and “five times longer lasting.” During his internship at BitBox this summer, [Thomas] decided to put those statements to the test. He tested thirty brands of batteries on a homebrew rig to find the batteries with the most power and the most bang for your buck.

The hardware [Thomas] used an STM32 microcontroller to perform two different tests: a high drain and a low drain condition. For the high drain, 1000 mA were sucked out of the batteries until the voltage reached 0.8 V. For the low drain, 200 mA were used. Data including milliwatt-hours, milliamp-hours, joules, voltage, current, power, and effective load resistance were all logged for both conditions for all 30 batteries.

Generalizing the results for both low and high drain conditions, lithium batteries were better than alkaline, which were both better than zinc AA cells. Perhaps unsurprisingly, batteries marketed as ‘long life’ and ‘extended power’ were the worst batteries for the money, but a brand-name battery – the Kodak Xtralife cells – were actually the best value for the money.

via Hackaday

Beautiful, simple vector illustrations by Javier Arce

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Rethink book as computer interface

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-rethink-interface-video.html

Claire Lomas Becomes the First Person to Take a ReWalk Bionic Exoskeleton Home for Daily Use

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Portable Microbiology Laboratory

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Low-cost water tests - mWater

Our Android App currently supports several other inexpensive water tests, including thePortable Microbiology Laboratory, which is available from Professor Robert Metcalf. One of the components in this kit, 3M Petrifilms, can detect E. coli and other bacteria in water. The tests can be incubated at room temperature in many locations or they can be worn in a pouch to make use of body heat for incubation. The mWater Android app can use the onboard camera to automatically count the bacteria on a Petrifilm and calculate the risk to the user.

In the near future, we will add simple test strips for Free Chlorine (important in piped water systems), Nitrate (commonly found in contaminated wells), and pH. We envision a complete low-cost laboratory suite for communities, health workers, utilities and emergency workers, that is connected to our cloud-based reporting system for instant sharing and mapping of data.

via mWater

The World's Only Natural Nuclear Reactor

the Oklo Reactor consists of 16 uranium-rich sites where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions took place billions of years ago. The reactors ran for a few hundred thousand years, averaging 100 kW of power output during that time.

Read more: The Oklo Reactor: The World's Only Natural Nuclear Reactor | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building 

40年的鑄劍師傅

Handmade Portraits: The Sword Maker from Etsy on Vimeo.

佩服！

尼爾．蓋曼為2012年藝術大學畢業生演講

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Water Light Graffiti LED Wall in France

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TshirtOS: The First Wearable and Programmable T

Meet the TshirtOS. It's essentially it's a wearable platform with a flexible LED display that connects to your iphone, opening up a whole host of fun and expressive opportunities.

via fashioningtech

Lego Birds

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3D printed exoskeletal support (Magic Arm for Child)

n the realm of science fiction (Aliens, Halo, Iron Man, etc) exo-skeletal suits have long enabled humans to exert super human force and endure arduous conditions. But for Emma Lavelle, a young girl that was born with a condition called arthrogryposis – wearing a 3D printed external support structure is a reality to enable her to carry out everyday tasks that able bodied people would perhaps take for granted.

Emma’s condition means she has stiff joints and under developed muscles, so much so that without support, she is unable to hold her arms up. Patients with this condition can overcome it with a Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton (WREX), but at 2 years of age, when first considered for the WREX, Emma was too small for the existing models available.

http://blog.ponoko.com/2012/08/05/3d-printed-exoskeletal-support

 

Protocell

Protocell <- something worth study

Tag:  Ideas
Via : TED Books

Via iPod touch 64g

http://exploringorigins.org/protocells.html

http://protocellcircus.com/

http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/06-09-033.pdf

http://iedro.com/blog/featured/protocell-tech-limestone-and-the-future-of-architecture