Il existe une toute nouvelle façon de visualiser l’histoire de notre monde

Un blogueur a proposé une façon tout à fait inédite de visualiser les grands noms de l'Histoire de l'humanité. 

Repéré par Vincent Manilève
25.01.2016











«Rapidement, quelles figures historiques vivaient il y a environ cinq cents ans?» C’est une question complexe que pose le Washington Post sur son site. En pensant à Christophe Colomb, on peut alors se souvenir de Ferdinand le Catholique. «Mais pour la plupart d’entre nous, écrit le site, ce qui va nous venir à l’esprit est probablement le bourdonnement du néant, ou le doux chant des criquets.» Et effectivement, nos souvenirs de collège et de lycée en matière d’histoire peuvent avoir tendance à se transformer en une sorte de mélasse dont il est difficile d’extirper les éléments clefs.
C’est pour cela que le site américain relaie le projet de Tim Urban, qui gère le blog Wait But Why, et qui propose une autre façon d’aborder les milliers d’années d’histoire de l’humanité: «l’histoire horizontale».

Transwheel concept proves future delivery drones don’t necessarily need to fly

as a final project at shenkar college in israel, industrial design student kobi shiker introduces a set of  concept robot drones named ‘transwheel’, that will help in the field of transportation and delivery. it is an autonomous robotic wheel what a self balancing system with retractable electric arms and GPS communication capabilities that enable it to operate in isolation or as a troop. they’d be able to carry out delivery needs around the clock, as small as courier boxes and as big as shipping containers. kobi’s ‘transwheel’ concept expands upon unmanned flying drones that are getting a fair amount of development from popular stores like amazon and walmart, with wheeled counterparts that would be more robust and versatile.

Voici la chaussure du futur

Une PME de l'Aude va recevoir un prix de l'innovation en janvier au plus grand salon high-tech de la planète, à Las Vegas. Elle a conçu une basket qui protège les articulations et le dos des joggeurs. 

Claude Massonnet | 26 Déc. 2015

  Le Parisien Infographie

Ce smartphone hollandais se veut "écoresponsable"

 La deuxième mouture du Fairphone est disponible en France. Ce smartphone hollandais fabriqué "équitablement" et facile à réparer respecte certains canons du développement durable. 

Êtes-vous prêts à craquer pour un smartphone qui se prétend "écoresponsable"? C'est le pari de la société hollandaise Fairphone dont le cofondateur, Bas Van Abel, a souhaité dès 2013 industrialiser son concept de téléphone mobile "équitable". Sa deuxième version est lancée sur le marché à partir du 9 décembre 2015.
Comme pour la précédente mouture, le Fairphone 2 est vendu via le site Internet du concepteur, fort de 25.000 commandes déjà enregistrées. Il est aussi disponible dans une boutique à Paris.
Pour mériter ce qualificatif d'"équitable", même s'il ne l'est pas à 100%, le premier smartphone lancé en 2014, écoulé à 60.000 exemplaires, respectait un certain nombre de règles propres à l'économie durable. Il n'incorporait pas de métaux rares comme l'étain et le coltan, provenant de zones en guerre. Fairphone avait même fini par dénicher un partenaire industriel en Chine qui s’engageait sur les conditions de travail de ses employés.

Sorry, Apple. Turns Out Designers Don't Use iPads | WIRED

In between announcing a Hermès-branded Apple Watch and another incremental improvement to the iPhone during its big event in San Francisco this week, Apple snuck in an Adobe demo. It came during presentation of the iPad Pro, and showed some of the ways digital creators will be able to do even more with their tablet. Hint: it involves using software like Adobe’s new CC brainstorming tool.
That’s definitely a great way to use a 12.9-inch iPad, except for one thing: 64 percent of designers don’t brainstorm with software. They do it with pen and paper.
That numerical nugget is one of many Khoi Vinh unearthed in a survey this summer. (Vinh, a graphic and interaction designer, was the design director at The New York Times and is now a principal designer at Adobe.) “The Tools Designers Are Using Today” looks at the preferred tools and software designers use during six major creation-related tasks: brainstorming, wireframing, interface design, prototyping, project management, version control, and file management.

3D Printed Casts

This 3D-Printed Cast Excels the Healing Process of Broken Bones

Published: Aug 2, 2015 • References: linkedin & fastcodesign

Senior director of functional design at '3D Systems' Scott Summit created a unique 3D-printed cast. The cast is more comfortable than traditional fiberglass casts and will actually enhance the healing process.

This 3D-printed cast allows the healing process to be more efficient by reducing the weight of the cast and the amount of skin that is acutally covered. After injuring himself, Summit and an orthopedic surgeon scanned his arm and built a 3D cast that would rest on just three parts of his arm. By avoiding major nerves, the cast reduced the constricted blood flow and swelling to allow a faster healing time.

The fresh cast designs allows users to easily shower and remain together in both hot and cold water temperatures. This cast even allows the wearer to conduct daily tasks like playing the guitar and slicing veggies.

IKEA Unveils a Placemat With a Smartphone Pouch

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Ever worry about spilling a drink on your smartphone at the dinner table? Well if you have, IKEA has just come up with a practical solution: a placemat complete with a smartphone pouch. As part of the Swedish retailer’s upcoming “SITTNING” collection that aims “to celebrate the joys of sharing a meal with those you love,” a new placemat that has a pouch sewn onto it, will be available for a bargain of $2 USD. However, the loose weave in the mat ensures that you’ll notice if your phone lights up, making it all the more distracting. Isn’t that the opposite of what this “SITTNING” collection is all about?

Source: Business Insider

Self-Rolling Yoga Mat

Does the frustration involved with rolling up a mat keep you from avoiding a daily yoga routine? That’s my excuse, which is now rendered moot with a yoga mat that rolls up tightly all by itself thanks to some fashion technology that was popular in the 1990s.
The YoYo Mat, which is attempting to raise $50,000 via Kickstarter to fund a large production run, looks and feels like your typical foam yoga mat. So you’re not making any compromises when it comes to weight or comfort. But it’s been upgraded with a pair of flat metal strips embedded along each edge of the mat that become rigid when unfurled ensuring the YoYo Mat always lies flat on the floor.
When your workout is over, simply picking up the YoYo Mat causes those metal strips to ‘snap’ and the whole thing to roll up on itself. It’s not exactly a solution to the planet’s most pressing issues, but the days of wrangling a six-feet long foam mat into a tight roll will soon be ancient history for yoga enthusiasts.

Building Tomorrow

PSFK + Architizer: Building Tomorrow from PSFK

Terrafugia TF-X Flying Car

 

TF-X is the practical realization of the dream of countless visions of the future; it is designed to be the flying car for all of us. In order to achieve this long-sought-after vision, Terrafugia will focus the TF-X program with clear goals that enhance the safety, simplicity, and convenience of personal transportation.

Vibram Unveils the Bizarre Furoshiki Wrap-Around Shoe

Industry standard sole manufacturer Vibram has unveiled a bizarre new footwear contraption. The Furoshiki shoe takes inspiration from the Japanese tradition of wrapping objects in cloth, and consists of a gripped sole unit which wraps around the foot with stretchy straps, making an innovative, adaptable shoe that Vibram promises will provide “comfort in every environment.” The shoe sports an anatomically-designer sole which promises to accommodate all foot shapes without sacrificing grip or comfort, and was originally designed for use in the water sports. Head to the Furoshiki Shoes website for more information and the chance to cop – although be warned, the website is mainly in Japanese.

Le plus beau terrain de basket parisien est à Pigalle

À deux pas de la place Pigalle se cache un terrain de basket atypique. Entièrement relooké après avoir été menacé de fermeture, il est devenu le playground le plus stylé de Paname !

Enclavé entre deux immeubles, on l’aperçoit à peine quand on se balade rue Duperré dans le 9e. Et pourtant, c’est un petit bijou qui est né début juillet pour tous les basketteurs parisiens. Avec ses dimensions inhabituelles et non réglementaires, ce terrain était menacé de fermeture. Mais grâce à l’initiative de Stéphane Ashpool – le fondateur de la marque de vêtements Pigalle -, il a été complètement refait à neuf. Il attise désormais la curiosité des habitants du quartier avec son sol fait en gomme de caoutchouc recyclé qui absorbe le bruit du ballon. Derrière ce revêtement coloré, on trouve les créateurs d’Ill studio qui en ont assuré la direction artistique. Une belle initiative !

Colorless, Transparent Coffee

Coffee which looks like water. The idea behind it is that it doesn't color your teeth, doesn't leave stains and you can drink it while its cold.

Making clear coffee only requires two ingredients: high quality coffee beans and clear water. When the coffee beans are processed, a loss in caffeine is experienced. This is compensated by adding high-quality natural caffeine. As a result the level of caffeine in your drink can be very accurately controlled. Due to this technology a drink has been developed which is unique in taste and flavour.
Source: clearcoffee.net

Chao chen creates biomimetic water-reactive material using pine cones

Nature has the answers to all of life’s problems if one looks close enough; the pine cone is no different. in order to protect and release its seeds, the cone has the ability to open and close its surface in reaction to water. its outer layer has a higher hygroscopic expansion ratio than the inner therefore causing, when dry, it to elongate outwards and release its seeds amidst optimum conditions.


veneer and nylon/polyester/styrene combined creates a bilayer material which can imitate the pine cone

This Simple But Ingenious Plate Stops You From Eating Too Much

No more self-delusion. Your heaping pile of pasta isn't a diet plan—and now your plate will remind you.

It started with a simple idea: If people tend to overeat because they have trouble estimating portion sizes, why not draw portion sizes directly on a plate? Last year, Dutch designer Annet Bruil sketched out a plate that graphically illustrates a balanced meal. Now—with more evidence that the plate can actually help improve nutrition—she's ready to start mass manufacturing.

The ETE plate, which to help fund the first production run, is split into pie chart-like sections, each labeled with examples of the food you can fit inside: Salad, meat or tofu, noodles or rice, vegetables, and an overlapping "mix" section to handle the fact that most dinners combine different food groups. By limiting what you eat to what can fit in each wedge, in theory, you'll become healthier.

A Lamp You Only See When You Need It

Hide and Seek lamps will go invisible when not being used but light up a room when turned on.

These lamps can be sitting on a nightstand unnoticed until a switch is flipped and a series of panels with tangent lines brighten a dark space. These panels, made out of plexiglass sourced from ash, can be moved and adjusted for different textures and foci of lighting.
There are three panels that go on the light pedestal. Their lengths are the same to fit along the panel, while some have a shorter side than others. You can set them up in more than 10 recommended configurations, or overlap them to create custom designs.

Botanically Manufactured Furniture

The Full Grown Furniture Farm Uses Eco-Friendly Methods

This furniture farm uses botanical manufacturing to create chairs, lamps and tables. Full Grown uses individual trees to do this.

This is an interesting alternative process to mass manufacturing, given the way things are currently done are both time-consuming and wasteful. Trees usually grow for around 50 years before being chopped down and turned into unsustainable pieces. Based in Derbyshire, Full Grown is environmentally-friendly and grows furniture from ash, oak, sycamore and willow trees. Throughout the process the trees are continually emitting carbon dioxide.

Founded by Gavin Munro, the furniture farm uses plastic molds placed over the trees, which encourage them to grow into a desired shape. This is also done by bending the growing tips of young trees.

Argodesign Conceptualizes the Interior of Elon Musk's Hyperloop High-Speed Rail

 

When Elon Musk introduced the idea of the Hyperloop in 2013 — a space-age rail system that would fire trains from one destination to another at 760 mph in air-tight vacuum tubes — his open-source white paper invited the talents of those interested to contribute their ideas to making his vision a reality. Austin-based design consultancy Argodesign has pitched in with its designs on how to make what could potentially be a claustrophobic, frightening experience into a civilized, and even enjoyable ride not unlike commercial air travel nowadays. Proposing a three-car customizable ”jukebox” configuration, Argodesign’s concept would allow cars of five types — a vehicle car, cargo car and three passenger cars (executive, business and coach classes) — to be interchanged to create an 80-foot train, depending on the assets that need transporting. As for the passenger experience, massive screens showing calming landscapes make up for the absence of windows, while business and coach seats are equipped with TV screens to pass the time, while executive seats would allow for meetings. Would you be willing to ride on the Hyperloop if this concept design were realized?

 

 

Rethinking the Way Storage Furniture Opens and Closes

Sebastian Errazuriz's experimental, transformative Wave provides access in an unexpected way

By Rain Noe



It may or may not be practical, but Sebastian Errazuriz's work re-thinks how storage furniture permits us access to their insides. Earlier we showed you his Samurai Cabinet, which brought a bit of ceremony to the act of retrieving clothing, and the visual surprise of the opening mechanism for his Explosion Cabinet, perhaps the most extreme in his line.

Now the NYC-based artist/designer has done it again, with a form more subdued than the Samurai and Explosion but every bit as exciting. Check out his fanciful Wave credenza:

For his part, the NYC-based Errazuriz doesn't care if it's practical or not; as the artist-designer-activist states, "I love the idea of creating beautiful furniture; nevertheless I am much more interested in using the medium as an excuse to trigger people's curiosity and create a connection with them."
"I don't know where the line is between art and design," Errazuriz states in his bio. "It's important to me that a project consist of just a little twist, because I ultimately want people to see the obvious, the everyday differently."