aMAZEme is an installation by Brazilian artists Marcos Shaboya and Gualter Pupo. A labyrinth made out of 250,000 books that forms the shape of educator’s JL Borges unique fingerprint. The following is timelapse footage of the build.
Hat tip Colossal.
A bike made of cardboard for under $15. Love the concept of low cost recycled transportation.
Stumbled upon this cool bookshelf by Eva Alessandrini and Roberto Saporiti. Originally designed for Saporiti.
Hat tip Design Milk
Recently, CityVision announced the winners of their NYC CityVision Competition which investigates contemporary cities and their future. Over 151 entries came from 32 different countries as architects, designers, students and planners submitted their future versions of NYC.
NYCV SECOND PRIZE /// E. Pieraccioli – C. Granato
Hat tip i09
Fortune Magazine has an interesting article that details how the internet is cabled around the world – much of which travels underwater. The massive fiber-optic cabling forms the backbone of the internet.
From Fortune Magazine
If the Internet is a global phenomenon, it’s because there are fiber-optic cables underneath the ocean. Light goes in on one shore and comes out the other, making these tubes the fundamental conduit of information throughout the global village. To make the light travel enormous distances, thousands of volts of electricity are sent through the cable’s copper sleeve to power repeaters, each the size and roughly the shape of a 600-pound bluefin tuna. One rests on the ocean floor every 50 miles or so. Inside its pressurized case is a miniature racetrack of the element erbium, which, when energized, gooses the particles of light along like a waterwheel.
Mind of Man is an interesting new game from 2 paper dolls that harnesses the power of the tweet and sentiment analysis to create a compelling social game.
From 2 paper dolls:
Mind of Man for Twitter®, reveals how the world sees you by turning your text and behaviors into unique digital avatars. The avatars, called MindPrints, identify players’ most dominant traits and emotions relative to their friends, favorite celebrities, and the rest of the Twitterverse.
While popular social media tools rank only power or influence, Mind of Man portrays players’ online personalities, character flaws, even anti-social tendencies through crowdsourcing. Players earn both virtual and real-world rewards for judging sentiment on Twitter.
“Inspired by visualizations of particle collisions at LHC CERN, wordcollider accelerate two phrases against each other on a collision course. The collision split the words up in their letters, their elementary particles, so to speak. After collision, wordcollider visualize a signature for each letter, based on their phonetic characteristics.” See more by Steffen Fiedler
OKSU is a concept design by Alexx Zhulin. The goal is to develop a NFC printer enabling printouts to interact with various devices.
Hat tip yanko design