Behind Photographs – The most famous photographs presented by their photographers
by Tim Mantoani
Yoshitomo Nara’s Doggy Radio
alice, mymodernmet.comAt Art Miami this December, I came across the cutest radio I’ve ever laid eyes on. (It popped back on my radar when I spotted it on toy collector/photographer doc18’s Flickr stream.) Popular Japanese contemporary artist Yoshitomo Nara…
Streetview Stereographic Stop-Motion Animation
Remember Streetview Stereographic? It was a clever and creative web toy that could take Google Street View images and apply a panoraic fish-eye look (sometimes called ‘Little Worlds’).
H▲LC●B has taken the idea creatively further by taking a series of this images and create a stop-motion animation from them, creating a short journey around a river, under bridges on a river in Japan …
There is another video here.
H▲LC●B’s photographic Tumblr blog can be found here
A New MiltonGlaser.com
swissmiss, swiss-miss.comLook, Milton Glaser has a new website, designed by LA Design Studio Ludlow Kingsley.
The Imagine 3D Printer
New 3D printer that not only can create objects using traditional silicone, but can also make things out of concrete and, more importantly, chocolate.
From PSFK:
The Imagine 3D Printer offers a different way to print in three dimensions because of the syringes it employs. Essential Dynamics, the makers of the additive design technology, believes that their system is unique to the market and is more versatile than other competitors.
The $3,000 machine can print food like chocolate, traditional silicone and even concrete.
A video demonstrating what the device can do can be found at PSFK here
This is the thrilling, disruptive potential of “mHealth,” the rapidly growing business of using mobile technology in health care. Leveraging the wonders of a device that’s fast becoming ubiquitous—two in three people worldwide own a cell phone—a new generation of startups is building apps and add-ons that make your handheld work like high-end medical equipment. Except it’s cheaper, sleeker, and a lot more versatile. “It’s like the human body has developed a new organ,” says Raja Rajamannar, chief innovation officer at Humana. Smartphones can already track calories burned and miles run, and measure sleep patterns. By 2013, they’ll be detecting erratic heartbeats, monitoring tremors from Parkinson’s disease, and even alerting you when it’s prime time to make a baby.
Marc Ecko Spraypaint Can shaped bluetooth speaker announced
Chris Burns, slashgear.comIf you’re aware of Ecko Unlimited, you know they’re apt to making clothing that’s aimed at the streetwear crowd, tending especially to those who love graffiti – this has translated rather enticingly, it would seem, to the tech and aud…
This is the first spraypaint can shaped bluetooth enabled device on earth.
