Holographic Cube Building by Hiro Yamagata
Originally made for the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, this installation covered two buildings in holographic panels that shifted color once lasers were reflected off it, creating a dazzling array of invisible light pyrotechnics.
(via: My Modern Met)
Neat. Reminds us a bit of Harpa, the building where we held a gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland. This video gives a nice tour, although it’s too bad that it misses out on sharing the exterior magic that occurs when night falls.
Reminds us of Graham Hill’s (PopTech 2010) LifeEdited design competition.
There’s been plenty of oohing and ahhing over the opening of New York’s Museum of Math, and for good reason. It’s remarkable how fun math can be in the hands of the right curator. To wit: The inaugural installation by artist and perceptual scientist Matthew Brand. Brand is the inventor of something called the specular hologram, a type of optical illusion that tricks your eye into thinking a 2-D object is 3-D.
The Home Aquaponics Self-Cleaning Fish Tank features five pots on the top for growing herbs and plants such as spinach, baby greens, oregano, beans, basil, mint, parsley and thyme. The fish waste naturally fertilizes the plants above. So, all you really have to do is feed the fish!
A moss-covered table that harnesses electricity from photosynthesis to power small electronics (called “photovoltaics”) and a fiber-optic chandelier that shines through petri dishes of customizable bacterial cultures from this awesome New York Times article on science and design in the home. Don’t miss the slideshow.
Say WHAT?!
I love the creative use of technology to deliver a completely new experience. It almost feels more like a real-life video game than a book.
The Silent History book/app releases daily episodes of about 1,500 words as well as GPS locked field notes that can only be read at a specific location.
“The Silent History app is available in the App Store for $1.99 and includes Volume One, the first twenty chapters of the story.
For readers who are hungry for more and want to explore the novel’s world in more depth, there are hundreds of GPS locked ‘Field Reports’ that can only be read when the reader takes their device to the specified place. These location-based stories can be accessed across the U.S. and around the world, including one in Antarctica.”
(via Digital Book Only Unlocks Content When Readers Are In A Specific Location - PSFK)
FastCo.Exist’s 11 Most Generous Designers includes PopTech fellows Heather Fleming (PopTech 2008) of Catapult Design and Michael Murphy (PopTech 2011) and Alan Ricks of MASS Design Group.
“I come here today because I am excited about data, but also because I am terrified. I am terrified that we are having progress without culture in the world of data.”
Jer Thorp, who has launched The Office For Creative Research, explores the boundaries between science, data, art, and culture. His work has appeared in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.
Firewall by Aaron Sherwood created in collaboration with Mike Allison
Peep the full video right here!
This glowing flotilla was created by Aether and Hemera, Claudio Benghi, and Gloria Ronchi for Canary Wharf’s Winter Lights program. They drifted in last Wednesday December 12th and will be there brightening up the Middle Dock until February 15th, 2013.
