Spherical Robot
Inventor/Mechanical genius Greg Schroll’s take on an all-terrain robot – put the robot inside of a big ball:
Extended Interview with Gary Hustwit – Dwell Blog – dwell.com
More on the forthcoming Objectified documentary; this time an interview with the director, Gary Hustwit: Extended Interview with Gary Hustwit – Dwell Blog – dwell.com
Objectified Movie Screenings Announced
Tickets are available online: Objectified Screenings.
Nature Podcast – More on Flexible Electronics
More discussion on the organic transistors enabling the flexible electronics I wrote about yesterday on the Nature Podcast this week: Download this episode of the Podcast Nature Podcast on iTunes
Flexible Thin-film Electronics
The New York Times is running a story about a new flexible electronics technology. Graphene is a single-layer sheet of carbon atoms (the building block, in fact, of the graphite used in pencils) and has properties that make electronics engineers swoon. … In addition to being nearly transparent and having excellent electrical characteristics, the films...
IDEO/BUG Concepts Posted
Yesterday IDEO posted some very well presented in-process concepts for BUG UI design opportunities. They started by presenting some Mid-Project Concept Sketches. Download the PDF. Seriously, it’s inspiring. They followed up with a post on each proposed concept: Concept 1 – e-Ink over Tactile Switches Concept 2 – Color LCD w/ Capacitive Touch Concept 3...
IDEO Product UI Design Process Will Be Public
The modular DIY gadget platform, BUG, has teamed with IDEO to redesign the BUG user interface. IDEO has agreed to BUG’s request to do the project in the open, soliciting feedback from the user community along the way. I’m not aware of a design effort of this magnitude, with a firm of this stature, happening...
Lifehacker Posts their Top 10 CES and Macworld Announcements
I don’t necessarily agree with all of these, but interesting nonetheless. 10. iLife/iWork new features and tweaks 9. Apple/Jobs won’t dominate Macworld anymore 8. Palm is back in the game 7. Built-in media streaming on TVs, DVD players 6. Better laptop batteries 5. Smarter voice-activated car systems 4. Wireless charging, for real 3. Picasa for...
