November 11, 2010
- Math Monday: Wearable geometry
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics
If you love geometry, you can let everyone know by wearing dodecahedra with elegance and style!
These dresses with sewn-on paper polyhedra embellishments were designed by Amila Hrustic.
I’m not sure how one sits in a dress textured with tetrahedra, but it certainly gets points for fashion.
Octahedral epaulettes suggest a high rank in the polyhedral hierarchy.
And what could be more classic than being clad in cubes?
[Photography: Irfan Redzovic. Model: Lana Pasic.]
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- Mold Sculptures On an iPad App, Then Print Them With a 3D Printer [Video]
We’ve already ascertained that 3D printers are cool. But when connected to an iPad, running the Beautiful Modeler app? Consider our collective minds blown. You can mold digital clay into whatever you want, then print it with a 3D printer.You'll need a 3D printer, obviously—MakerBot’s Thing-O-Matic is the cheapest, at $1,225.
It's probably the easiest way to design 3D objects, without mucking around on CAD or other design programs. Actually using your fingertips to bend the lump of clay within the iPad app, turning it into a little object to print out—well, it sounds like a dream come true. Imagine your mom making Christmas tree ornaments this way, or being able to conjure up a little doohicky for sliding under a short table leg, within minutes?
Never have I wanted a 3D printer so much before.
The source code is available to grab from the Interactive Fabrication site now, and cleverly the program actually hooks up your laptop at the same time, so you can see your object’s progress there, and model it on the iPad. [Interactive Fabrication via CreativeApplications via FastCo]
- Is There a Future For the Spherical Mouse? [Video]
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This looks very neat…but what’s the difference between this and my space mouse from 2005?Touch screens are allowing us to break free from mouses and cursors and interact with the things we see on our displays more directly. But maybe the mouse just needed an overhaul—here's how the latest spherical one works.
This is Axsotic's 3D-Spheric-Mouse, designed to be used in conjunction with another input device to manipulate three-dimensional objects. 3D modeling is one obvious application for the thing—and similar designs have been used for such tasks in the past—but as our pals at Dvice point out, fluidly moving through all manner of computer games with a six-axis ball would probably be pretty awesome too.
Axsotic’s spherical mouse can be rolled, pushed, pulled or twisted and a combination of springs and magnets translates those manipulations into movement in the three dimensional space. I’m not sure how ergonomic it is to fold your hand up and tickle a racketball-sized sphere for prolonged periods, but I’m willing to try anything that could potentially improve my woeful PC gaming performance. [Axsotic via Dvice]
- Is There a Future For the Spherical Mouse? [Video]
Touch screens are allowing us to break free from mouses and cursors and interact with the things we see on our displays more directly. But maybe the mouse just needed an overhaul—here's how the latest spherical one works.
This is Axsotic's 3D-Spheric-Mouse, designed to be used in conjunction with another input device to manipulate three-dimensional objects. 3D modeling is one obvious application for the thing—and similar designs have been used for such tasks in the past—but as our pals at Dvice point out, fluidly moving through all manner of computer games with a six-axis ball would probably be pretty awesome too.
Axsotic’s spherical mouse can be rolled, pushed, pulled or twisted and a combination of springs and magnets translates those manipulations into movement in the three dimensional space. I’m not sure how ergonomic it is to fold your hand up and tickle a racketball-sized sphere for prolonged periods, but I’m willing to try anything that could potentially improve my woeful PC gaming performance. [Axsotic via Dvice]
- Apple: You Can't Have A White iPhone 4 Until Spring 2011 [Apple]
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&*#@RKHGFGIWRY07^(% Apparently I am never getting one. RAGE!
In case you’d gotten excited when the whispers about the white iPhone 4 started again today, there’s some bad news. Apple has put out a statement clarifying that the highly desired gadget won’t be available until Spring 2011:We’re sorry to disappoint customers waiting for the white iPhone yet again, but we’ve decided to delay its release until this Spring.
We do wonder why Apple is bothering to put out a white iPhone 4 at all if it’ll be delayed so much. By the time it’s available, we’ll be too focused on the iPhone 5. [All Things D]
- 20/20 Headphones Use Tensegrity to Adapt to Any Head Automagically [Video]
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Teague’s 20/20 headphones are one of weirdest and most intriguing industrial designs I’ve ever seen. Instead of using the usual adjusting mechanisms to adapt to different heads’ shapes and sizes, they use tensegrity. But, what’s tensegrity?It’s a term first used by Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller to define a structure type that uses flexible and rigid elements to balance tension and compression forces.
As Teague’s designer Dana Krieger told us:
The 20/20 concept explores the serendipitous match between Buckminster’s tensegrity structure (observed and filed away several years ago in a peculiar children’s toy) and the unique structural requirements of headphone adjustment mechanism. The semi-rigidity and organic flexibility of the architectural structure are a challenge for many possible applications, but perfect for the problem of accommodating the wide range of ear and head shapes that make up the human population.
The structure seem as effective as it is beautiful. Too bad the 20/20 is a concept… for now. Teague—who is responsible for the interior design of the Boeing Dreamliner— tells me that they are pitching it to “a few headphone” companies. Let’s hope it materializes soon. [Teague]
- Toys R Us Express filling gap left by Pearl in Central Square
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mostly ew, but i suppose they will have lego.So reports Minka vanBeuzekom.
- Owner of Cambridge restaurant under NSA wiretap
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I want some kaddo. Too bad they are not open for lunch 🙁That’s what happens when your brother is the president of Afghanistan and you’re in the middle of a corruption scandal, apparently.
Wicked Local Cambridge makes the connection between the New York Times story and Helmand.
- Steve Wiebe is the King of Kong again
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Billy Mitchell must be pissed. The certified “Video Game Player of the [20th] Century” has lost the Donkey Kong world record — again — to longtime rival Steve Wiebe. Wiebe nudged Billy’s July 31 record of 1,062,800 points with a masterful 1,064,500-point effort, achieved on August 20 and confirmed today by score authority Twin Galaxies. The two rivals memorably starred in the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
Hank Chien, who ever so briefly enjoyed the limelight, falls to third on the all-time leaderboard.
[Pictured: Billy Mitchell from The King of Kong (2007 film)]
Steve Wiebe is the King of Kong again originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. - Why Ride a Bike When You Can Ride a Horse Bike [Bikes]
Plenty of people have tried to reinvent the bicycle, but I've always thought that what we currently have—two wheels, a standard frame, and some handlebars—is pretty much perfect. And then I saw the horsecycle.The winner of the Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010, “Horsey,” is a simple kit that allows anyone to turn their roll into a gallop. The designer, Eungi Kim, explains:
horsey’ is an attachable bicycle ornament/accessory which makes one’s bicycle look horsey! the ‘horsey’ package includes wooden ornaments (horsey shape body), metal parts, and screws. the manual is very simple so that anyone can easily arrange it according to one’s needs. through this ‘horsey’ project. I wanted to give a special look to bicycles so that people would care about cycling not only as transportation but also as a lovely pet.
Lovely indeed!
I just hope my horse doesn’t get bored being a single-speed. [designboom]
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