“Openarch is a real prototype of a smart home. The first home designed from scratch to incorporate a digital layer connecting the house and its elements to the Internet.”
Wow 🙂
Motrr founders Josh Guyot and JoeBen Bevirt created a revolutionary product “Galileo“.
iOS-controlled robotic iPhone platform with infinite spherical rotation capability. Galileo is an invaluable tool to everyone from an amateur photographer to the professional cinematographer, and vastly improves the experience of video chat for anyone needing to stay connected.
All.I.Can: a two-year feature film project by the Sherpas that fuses our passions for riding and exploring the mountains with our potential to help the environment. The film strives to unite global mountain culture and bind us together as the leaders of a revolution.
We must be inspired to do all we can for the environment, and we must learn how to take that first tiny step in the right direction.
This film received many best international awards across the globe.
“In life it’s our choice whether we laugh or cry – and I chose to laughâ€
“It’s like when you fall in love – you can’t control it. You know it might hurt you, …but the feeling is so goodâ€
Life is beautiful, its just how you really see it. Just choose your path, a burning dream and faith that yes you can do it!.
One Step Beyond is a story of lives led to extremes, of living your dreams and coming face to face with brutal reality. Of incredible friendships and finding the strength to overcome life’s cruelest obstacles. Of sharing amazing experiences with wonderful people… and of choosing to laugh.
Interesting 🙂
“Metro, the design paradigm behind Windows Phone is in part, a celebration of typography. In this short film, godfather of modern type, Erik Spiekermann talks about how typography is used in the digital domain.â€
via adam haider
The new generation of companies are finding ways to encourages curiosity and creativity in kids through toys. Bringing them back to life.
littleBits is a growing library of pre-assembled circuit boards that snap together with tiny magnets! Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.
by Erica Gorochow
Nice presentation by Stephanie Rieger
“Fingers and thumbs turn design conventions on their head. Touchscreen interfaces create ergonomic, contextual, and even emotional demands that are unfamiliar to desktop designers. Find out why our beloved desktop windows, buttons, and widgets are weak replacements for manipulating content directly, and learn practical principles for designing mobile interfaces that are both more fun and more intuitive. Along the way, discover why buttons are a hack, how to develop your gesture vocabulary, and why toys and toddlers provide eye-opening lessons in this new style of design.” – Josh Clark
The world as Steve Jobs saw it:
When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.
That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
Starbucks keep experimenting on Augmented reality in various ways. If you’ve visited Starbucks lately, you may have noticed some heart-adorned cups designed to celebrate Valentine’s Day. These are part of a mobile augmented reality program. Just watch the above video to know how you can play with it.
The story behind Corning’s Vision of “A Day Made of Glass 2”.
See the above video, how Corning’s highly engineered glass, with companion technologies, will help shape our world.