Tag: Dematerialization - Page 7
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Bruce Sterling on Downloadable Designs
Bruce Sterling has not only written the book on downloadable designs (called Shaping Things), He made the movie too!
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Freedom of Creation: Downloading Clothes
Freedom of Creation (FOC) of Helsinki uses laser sintering to "create digitally generated consumer products. These products are more than stunning beauties. They are also models for localized manufacturing and distribution logistics where no stock, no
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Absolut Downloads: Foldschool
Foldschool is a full size, downloadable design, distributed freely by Swiss architect Nicola Enrico Stäubli. He says "The mindset of foldschool is to restore design to one of its original missions: to provide a product at an affordable price through a
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Absolut Downloads: Angelique Lucas-Witte
Like Ryerson University student Angelique Lucas-Witte's laptop table, made from a 4x4 sheet of baltic birch.
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In An Absolut World...Everything is Downloadable
Absolut is running an interesting campaign called "In an Absolut World" where artists, websites and anyone over 21 years old submit visions of a better world. They range from "there would be a weather remote" to "Undo" would work in real life.
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Electronic Books: The Next Chapter
MP3 players have been around for a while; it took a visionary like Steve Jobs to design both the hardware and a delivery system that was elegant and simple to transform digitally stored music from geekdom to everyday use. Words are even more easily
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Dematerialized Designs: Make Your Own Watch
In the future we may make things locally with neighbourhood CNC or 3D printing to eliminate shipping costs and CO2 emissions. Frederic Hakoune gives us an early demonstration of this with his printed watch.
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Record Player Made from Paper
We love seeing what people build out of paper, part of our preoccupation with downloadable designs. Artist Simon Elvins built this: A "Fully working, manual record player made entirely of paper. To play the record the handle needs to be turned in a
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Downloadable designs: Flying Pig
Here is a great example of the downloadable designs we go on about; who knew they could be so complicated and have moving parts? Perfect for all your Creationist friends and the historically challenged.
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TreeHugger Picks: Downloading Design
Downloadable designs for 3-D printing is a pretty intriguing idea for the future; instead of going to the store to replace a watch band (for example), just download the design and "print" it yourself. Until 3-D printers are as common as inkjet printers
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Downloading Designs: Paperinside
We love downloadable designs; they are harbingers of a future where we will download instructions into tools that will manufacture them in our homes, eliminating shipping and waste. We have discovered an entire website devoted to downloadable paper
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Downloading Designs: Home 3D Printing Coming Soon
Bill Gross of IdeaLab is at it again, and will soon be selling the Desktop Factory. In a disgraceful example of verbing, he said "We are Easy-Bake Ovening a 3-D model," he said. "The really powerful thing about
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Flatpack Cutlery by J.C. Karich
JC Karich "started to work with empty bottles trying to extract shapes similar to cutlery, to finally achieve a salad set that comes out from flat single surfaces and that come in shape in a simple way and becomes elegant and beautiful." and out of a
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Downloading Designs: Build Your Own 3D Printer
We are always excited about the possibility of economical CNC machines and 3D printers or "fabbers"; someday we will be downloading products as easily as we do now with PDFs. We have noted that Sears sells a CNC for $ 3200 and now learn from the
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Downloading Designs: Soon in 3D
A team of French scientists has developed a method of making flat shapes form themselves into 3D shapes by simply adding a drop of water in a carefully designed spot. Flower patterned shapes become spheres, a cross shape becomes a box. They envision
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Beam Me Up: 3D Scanning is Getting Affordable
Scanning or faxing paper is so 1970. Now you can get an affordable Nextengine 3D scanner ($2,495, just a little more than I paid for my first fax machine). It is another step on the road to dematerialized production, where designs are transported over
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Downloading Designs: Vivacizzare Your Desk with Piopio
Good Italian design is so expensive and transport costs so much, but with downloadable designs, it does not matter where it comes from. In time for Easter or Passover, Scarabokkio offers this cute little box, which google translates as:
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Downloading Designs: Foldschool Furniture
Downloadable designs are so efficient; no shipping or handling, just bits and bytes. We have shown flatpack furniture , flatpack toys from Readymech and Pinhole cameras as demonstrations of the possibilities of dematerialized designs; now we have
