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HP's DesignJet Studio is a printer that resembles a piece of furniture

American technology company Hewlett Packard (HP) has developed a large-format plotter for architects and designers, which is closer to "furniture that prints" than to a traditional printer.

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Words About Buttons

… Whether we are communicating with a human or a machine, the goal is to create a shared understanding of the world.

… When we push a button, we give explicit permission for a machine to do something on our behalf.

… this would be a world in which computer might sense what you wanted even before you managed to form the thought in you head … It was a vision in which the press of a button would feel like a work … After all, what was a button but a mere approximation of the more fluid relationship we have with one another, and with the natural world?

… In the future, ways of passing control back and forth between man and a machine would be embedded in our body language.

Sources: User Friendly: How the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play. --- Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant

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Why Are Robots So Freaking Cute?

They’re coming for our jobs, allegedly. So why do I want to snuggle them?

...“Their characters are in the way they move, much more than one of them being a coyote and the other a running bird,” Lynn said. “For us, it was always about the way Gita moves. All those motions are really about the dynamism and the animation rather than the form, which is not to say that form doesn’t matter, but we always want the features to take a background.”

...“We wanted to make sure there was an emotion to the sounds, but it wasn’t an emotion you knew,” Lynn said. “They’re symbolic.”

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Robot Etiquette

Designing Autonomous Machines for Pedestrian Spaces

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Exclusive: The second generation of Adidas’s Loop shoe is here

A few months ago, Adidas took its first step toward making new shoes out of old shoes. The second phase of its ambitious Loop project will go further.

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Arque: Artificial Biomimicry-Inspired Tail for Extending Innate Body Functions

For most mammals and vertebrate animals, tail plays an important role for their body providing variant functions to expand their mobility, or as a limb that ...

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Trash Artist

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Zero Labs Automotive based in Los Angeles, California is an automotive design, technology, and engineering firm. We create premium products for the intersection of classic vehicles and clean energy technology.

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Exclusive: Adidas’s radical new shoe could change how the world buys sneakers

Futurecraft Loop is an experiment in the circular economy. For Adidas, it could be the beginning of a major shift in how it does business.

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Scientists have developed tiny elastic robots that can change shape depending on their surroundings. Modeled after bacteria and fully biocompatible, these robots optimize their movements so as to get to hard-to-reach areas of the human body. They stand to revolutionize targeted drug delivery.

"Nature has evolved a multitude of microorganisms that change shape as their environmental conditions change. This basic principle inspired our microrobot design. The key challenge for us was to develop the physics that describe the types of changes we were interested in, and then to integrate this with new fabrication technologies.”

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Christophe Guberan and Self-Assembly Lab's Liquid to Air Explores the Limits of 3D Printing

MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab expands the potential of 3D Printing with Liquid to Air, a collection of inflatable objects by Swiss designer Christophe Guberan and MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab

Christophe Guberan

http://christopheguberan.ch/

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Five Things We Learned From Designer Marcel Wanders - Azure Magazine

Designer Marcel Wanders, the design world’s premier provocateur, shares his thoughts on criticism (good) and minimalism (over).

We do crazy shit that never goes anywhere. It’s one experiment followed by another – and that’s great. It does everything design should do: It alters your brain and your heart, even if it doesn’t lead to a mass-produced product. If everybody agrees with what you’re doing, you’re not innovating.

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Hollywood’s favorite UX designers just created a real smartwatch

The Huami Amazfit Verge is Tony Stark’s smartwatch.

Most industrial design and interface design results from the assumption that form follows function; it makes sense that an object is shaped by the way it’s going to be used. Territory operates in exactly the opposite direction. The team comes up with graphics it likes first, then considers how data might be mapped to those visuals. “That way we can disrupt a little bit more,” says Romances. “If you start with restrictions, you’ll never get to the two to three new avenues you can if you start with a different thought process. So let’s start with what we really like, then figure it out.”

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Could modular shoes be the next big sneaker craze?

Move over, Nike and Adidas.