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Loving this metabolist building, organically built around the service provider (water, electricity, gas..)

Lots of beautiful work by MapProjectOffice

Designer and architect Neri Oxman is leading the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies can interact with the biological world. Working at the intersection of computational design, additive manufacturing, materials engineering and synthetic biology, her lab is pioneering a new age of symbiosis between microorganisms, our bodies, our products and even our buildings.

Beautiful project around design texonomy

#biology

What do you get when you combine the strongest materials from the plant world with the most elastic ones from the insect kingdom? Super-performing materials that might transform ... everything. Nanobiotechnologist Oded Shoseyov walks us through examples of amazing materials found throughout nature, in everything from cat fleas to sequoia trees, and shows the creative ways his team is harnessing them in everything from sports shoes to medical implants.

Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi explains the connection between spacing out and creativity.

#boredom #creativity

Loving this electro kit for children. I know I can make it myself but it’s super pretty (although not cheap) https://www.techwillsaveus.com/

#electronics #kids #giftideas

About 3D Printing

Had a super cool visit at 3D Factory in Jaffa yesterday. Learned about a bunch of cool materials, different kinds of printers and got a lot of inspiration.

The top 3 coolest things:

http://shapeshifter.io/ A free tool from Autodesk to make 3d sketches and objects. Can’t wait to give it a try.

https://www.myminifactory.com/ A market place for 3d files and objects

Hermit crab shells by Aki Inomata, a Japanese artist who made little homes for crabs.

#3d printing #bezalel

Pretty much anything Kate Crawford is doing right now. Data and AI bias is super interesting, understanding the machine learning might not be closing the gap but will keep it.

#databias #ainow

The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

#random #visual2digital

Nicholas Felton is a designer, entrepreneur and artist whose work focuses on translating quotidian data into meaningful objects and experiences. He turned his own experiences into beautiful data visualizations (Also - Facebook’s timeline)

#data #infographics

#bioart

What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making to create an idea meritocracy where people can speak up and say what they really think -- even calling out the boss is fair game. Learn more about how these strategies helped Dalio create one of the world's most successful hedge funds and how you might harness the power of data-driven group decision-making.

#DesignitInspiration

Zimoun : Compilation Video 3.7 (2017) from ZIMOUN on Vimeo.

#vimeo #random #physicalDigital

Somerset House presents Big Bang Data, an exhibition about the data explosion that’s radically transforming our lives.

From the website: “Inspiring and innovative, Big Bang Data, was a major exhibition at Somerset House, where artists, designers and innovators explored how data is transforming our world.”

#data #DataCourse

אישה + מאמר על מי שומר על הכוח באינטרנט = מענין!

#data #FutureOfInternet #DataCourse

Phonebloks. A modular phone system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c

#modularVSopensource

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