the macbook finally gets a rest for once, todays weapon of choice is a drill and a pencil; the drill refreshingly doesn’t have an ‘undo’ button…
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proto type #2
i paid a visit to the studio of ‘tejo remy & rene veenhuizen’ yesterday in utrecht, to see the progress on our collective art project ‘hoofdzaken’ the interview object is nearing completion and works perefectly, it was really great to see the guys at work… now it’s my turn to figure out exactly how to apply the typography, an exciting moment… the object will be moving to my studio in a few weeks to get started properly, more news soon…
kritzeln
very nice this: described as ‘a small machine… that writes on windows‘, it’s open source so you can even build your own one, via design taxi
invisibility cloaks
…could be here sooner than you think, this (military) technology called ‘adaptiv’ allows vehicles to mimic the temperature of their surroundings, what appears to be a car seen through infra-red optics, is in fact a tank…
…the hi-tech camouflage uses hexagonal panels or pixels made of a material that can change temperature very quickly. About 1,000 pixel panels, each of which is 14cm across, are needed to cover a small tank. The panels are driven by on-board thermal cameras that constantly image the ambient temperature of the tank’s surroundings. This is projected on to the panels to make it harder to spot. The cameras can also work when the tank is moving…