This short by Mike Ko mixes 3D renderings with real camera footage. The 24 seconds took about 3 months to create.
Real Hoverbike
Brought to you by aerospace firm Aerofex, the bike runs on a pair of powerful fans. It picks up on instinctive movements people make while riding a bicycle or motorbike, then moves in the same way (except, you know, flying), meaning anyone can have a go at it. For safety reasons, they’ve tested it at 30 mph and 15 feet high, although earlier versions of it went as fast as a helicopter. Read More
Building Storyworlds
This fall I’ll be teaching Building Storyworlds – the art, craft & biz of storytelling in 21C at Columbia Unversity again. We’ll be inviting guest speakers, mentors and collaborators from around the world to join us digitally. One of the goals of the course is to open the design process and share much of what we do within the class as possible. If you’re interested in participating let us, know we’d love to hear from you.
Smart Notebook
Evernote ventures into a partnership with Moleskin to produce a special “smart” notebook. A marriage in paper and bits that is intended to streamline productivity and creativity.
Your own personal environment monitor
Lapka is a personal environment monitor that connects to a mobile phone enabling the user to collect, measure and analyze Radiation, Organic, EMF and Humidty. The fact sheet defines it as a highly sensitive monitor that responds to an invisible world of particles, ions, molecules and waves, so it can analyze your surroundings and smartly combine the results into guideline values for your comfort.
The Invisible Bicycle Helment
7 years and 10 million in VC funding later two design students did something no one had done before or thought was even possible. They developed an airbag / helment for the bicycle.
Little Printer
Berg have developed a “Little Printer” that bridges the physical and digital world. Printer management is handled through a mobile app enabling users to curate todo lists, blog feeds, 4square checkins, tweets and status updates. A wireless bridge called Berg Cloud helps the device to effortlessly print you a daily mini-newspaper. Added bouns the printer is inkless – it prints in black on white thermochromic paper.
From the little printer site:
Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful miniature newspaper.
Outgrow me
Outgrow.me is a collection of crowdfunding campaigns from indiegogo and kickstarter. The site aggregates interesting projects that have received funding and are now available for the general public to purchase. It’s nice to see an archive that captures the innovative spirit of crowdfunding.
