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GIFs!! Can A Thousand Tiny Swarming Robots Outsmart Nature? | Deep Look

GIFs of our future swarming overlords from our new Deep Look video:

WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6oKJ5FGk24

Presented in partnership with pbsdigitalstudios .

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Swarm intelligence! Minibots!

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DIY Hanging Planter via The Merrythought

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Origami and Solar Cells. That is a creative combination that sparks my interest, if I do say so…

More on this NASA prototype here.

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Designer Willem Heeffer created a series of lighting fixtures made from boilers taken out of discarded espresso machines. GOLDIE http://www.ilovegoldie.com/willem-heeffer

unconsumption

Looking to solve real world problems with a fun approach, New York-based entrepreneur Jessica O. Matthews conceptualized a soccer ball, The Soccket, that has the capabilities to harness energy from play to light up a connected LED lamp. Building a company, Uncharted Play, that seeks to offer products of social invention inspired by outdoor activities, Matthews and her team have since released the The Pulse in addition to The Soccket, which adopts a similar energy-fueled concept, but in the form of jump ropes.

More here.

— d.n.

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Reuse, design workshop

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Designer Alice Min Soo Chun’s SolarPuff is an origami-like lamp that can be folded down for ultra-portability —all powered completely through solar energy.

(via SolarPuff - Cool Hunting)

— rw

shapeways

As we age and get older, especially for the elderly, ordinary actions become extraordinarily difficult such as writing, typing, or opening bottle caps. Japanese Designer Tatsuo Ishibashi was aware of these issues and has created 3D printed products aimed for assisting the elderly and people with...

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Using Design powers for the good of the world! Rock on!

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When we shower, we ask water to make an epic trek across the (city), then go get heated so that the tiny little droplets can touch our skin for a millisecond and then go down the drain and be done with it because it’s now “used”, because it touched us for a millisecond. How wasteful and nonsensical does our current assumptions sound? - Well this showerloop project is simply magnificent, and responsible in all the ways I wish I could be. So proud and inspired to see this.

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A skyrocketing demand for food means that agriculture has become the largest driver of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental destruction. Jonathan Foley shows why we desperately need to begin "terraculture" -- farming for the whole planet.

Impacts on society - layers of our engineering endeavors.

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The Go is cleverly designed to help reduce the common injuries for wheelchair usersand look cool, too.

See what I mean? Our abilities translate to expanded reach, and scope.

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Google's Eve Andersson tells Co.Design how today's accessibility problems could lead to improvements in robots, Google Maps, and even YouTube.

It’s a good day. One more.

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We’re apart of the 100 resilient cities!!! Woot! Thanks to Sandy’s efforts and the ENGG 481 F’15 class!

unconsumption

A new bikini is designed to help suck pollutants like oil and chemicals from the water as someone swims. It’s made from a special material that was originally designed to be used at scale to clean up oil spills.

(via This Bikini Cleans The Ocean While You Swim | Co.Exist | ideas + impact)

— rw

starburstquicks

Design for Impact! This is very interesting.