Leave the modern world behind and marvel at the canny woodcraft of the Primitive Technology channel, a chap in Queensland who makes all manner of ingenious devices in the wild using only natural materials – in this case, a monjolo, or water-powered hammer traditionally used to pound grain to flour or crush clay for porcelain.
More here.
A motorised prosthetic for the able-bodied by designer Dani Clode.
Someday, we will all go to eleven.
A lamp designed by Leslie Nooteboom that projects animated patches of light on walls – mimicking the appearance of what the Japanese call komorebi (patches of sunlight reflected off water or filtering though leaves).
The idea is to add soothing ambience to high rise spaces usually denied such simple pleasures.
The wickedly fast Japanese sport of ‘pepe-sumo’, or miniature robot sumo wrestling, filmed here in real time and compiled (from several years of footage) by Robert McGregor.
Bouts don’t last long. Refs wear shin pads.
Exisdance – a project from P.I.C.S Tokyo demonstrating a new technique of projection mapping directly onto a moving human body in real time.
Mmm. Digital
Behold the symphony of LCD that was the 1984 Casio Catalogue – a worthy contribution to the 80s Design subreddit by PotatoSkies.
Open Pose: a new form of machine learning that allows computers to detect and follow human body language.
This test footage by cretaor/coder Samim mines information from (among other things) Bruce Lee fight scenes, Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks and David Lewandowsky’s WTF classic ‘Going To The Store’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcBGj4R7Fo0
Behold the Fluent Design System from Microsoft, what sez:
Introducing a new design system for the next wave of creativity across Windows devices. Fluent Design will deliver intuitive, harmonious, responsive and inclusive cross-device experiences and interactions.
Whatever that means.
