The Stamp Mobile: A Crazy Money Marking Contraption
Ben Cohen wanted to take on the man. He enlisted the San Francisco maker community, and built a noisy, carnivalesque, vaudeville-style device, full of bright-colored wood and plastic and metal, to drive around the country and stamp slogans on money.
Turn Your Smartphone Into a Robot
Kickstarter Romotive have created an affordable robot that utilizes the processing power of a smartphone. The WSJ’s Michael Kofsky talks about why this innovation could power the future of robotics.
Artist’s “Breathing Bike” a breath of fresh air in smoggy Beijing
Amid record-breaking levels of air pollution, a Beijing-based British artist has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect himself against the city’s foul air while making a political point at the same time. Matt Hope has come up with what he calls the “breathing bicycle”, a contraption that’s both protecting his lungs and turning heads.
Revamping Vegas with The Downtown Project
The Downtown Project is a $350 million initiative spearheaded by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. The goal is to bring a renaissance of sorts to Downtown Las Vegas, the old city center several miles away from the touristy Strip.
Good germs make healthy buildings
Our bodies and homes are covered in microbes — some good for us, some bad for us, and some just along for the ride. As we learn more about the germs and microbes who share our living spaces, TED Fellow Jessica Green asks: Can we design buildings that encourage happy, healthy microbial environments?
Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android
Pebble is the first watch built for the 21st century. It’s infinitely customizable, with beautiful downloadable watch faces and useful internet-connected apps. Pebble connects to iPhone and Android smartphones using Bluetooth, alerting you with a silent vibration to incoming calls, emails and messages. While designing Pebble, we strove to create a minimalist yet fashionable product that seamlessly blends into everyday life.
25,000 LEDs Illuminate The San Francisco Bay Bridge
The Bay Lights project on the San Francisco Bay Bridge is the world’s largest LED sculpture thanks to artist Leo Villareal and his custom algorithms that ensure the patterns won’t repeat for two years.
Reengineering bicycle design with Tech 3.0
When we typically think of high tech travel, we start with aviation and end at automotive travel. Bicycling has always remained an antiquated mode of travel for the young, healthy and green consumer. Well, the designers at Visiobike intend to change that.
With capabilities to plug in your smartphone to derive travel analytics, cameras for rear view monitoring, gps plugins to track the location of your bicycle and security pins to engage and disengage your bicycle, this $6,000 bicycle hopes to reengineer the experience and the notion that bicycles cannot be high tech.
Memory chip pioneer focuses on the consumer and design along with technology
Intel - a pioneer of the dynamic memory chip - took a huge leap of faith by exiting the memory business in order to commit to microprocessors. In reinventing the company, the founders abandoned more than a decade of work and market leadership in order to be a leader in the age of personal computers.
Here, Justin Rattner, Corporate VP & Head of Intel Labs, describes how the company is pivoting again to focus on the user experience. The user can try on virtual clothes without ever leaving their living room, in a latest Intel project!
The Open Source Robotic Tentacle of the Future
In the underground world of robotic tentacle makers, there are two rules: 1) don’t talk about underground tentacle-making and 2) don’t talk about underground tentacle-making. Both of those rules have been shattered by Matthew Borgatti, a robotics designer who has created a life-like, 3D-printed tentacle that flails around quite disturbingly using Arduino boards and a set of mini air compressors.
