Month: December 2006

Cup Stains

Bethan Laura Wood has created a line of teacups that get prettier the more they are used. She treats the cups’ interiors so that tea-stains build up more in patters she lays down — the more tea you drink, the more pronounced the stain-patterns become.

design for a post-scarcity world. when are manufacturers moving beyond planned obsolescence?

Swivel

But then the real fun begins. You and other users can then compare that data to other data sets to find possible correlation (or lack thereof). Compare gas prices to presidential approval ratings or UFO sightings to iPod sales. Track your page views against weather reports in Silicon Valley. See if something interesting occurs.

And better yet, Swivel will be automatically comparing your data to other data sets in the background, suggesting possible correlations to you that you may never have noticed.

sweet. more data web. i hope they have a decent back-end.

integrating the skin into fashion

SKIN Probe investigates the human skin, and how body products should be designed – be they garments, electronics or furniture. She developed it with a team made of people coming from different disciplines: a fashion designer, a textile engineer, a garment technologist, etc.

Technology should be much more than just intelligent: it should be sensitive, thus able to give psycho-sensorial feedbacks (a subliminal message) and indirect response (touch and feel). She sees skin as a wonderful sensor: it’s an electronic network, a protection barrier, a temperature regulator, etc.