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Meet the camera that is making photography easier than you could have ever imagined. Lytro uses a new type of light senor that records the entire light field. This means that after you take a photo, you are able to adjust the focal area.
The Lytro website features a section that allows you to try out the re-focusing process like you would if you actually owned the camera. This mind-blowing technology has professional photographers scrambling and questioning what photography means.
The people behind Lytro what to reinvent what it means to take a photograph.
“By capturing the light field, you can do incredible things. Like refocus pictures after you take them. Tap the touchscreen on whatever part of the picture you want to bring into focus — or, once a picture is imported into your computer, click to refocus.”
(Full article - Including video of how it all works)
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Design that is adaptable, changeable and beautiful is always something that catches my eye. Combined with crafting skill Well Well Designers have developed Pop-Up, a corner lamp delivered in an envelope.
The Pop-up corner light is delivered in an envelope with the electric cord. The lamp is constructed from a sheet of tinted cardboard.The sheet is cut and incised, in such a way to produce a square, triangular or circular module when folded at a 90° angle. Intended for the corner of a room, the lamp creates a luminous shape, interacting with the architecture. It cleverly takes advantage of a space often unexploited in design.
“People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing and it’s totally true. And the reason is because it’s so hard that if you don’t, any rational person would give up. It’s really hard. And you have to do it over a sustained period of time. So if you don’t love it, if you’re not having fun doing it, you don’t really love it, you’re going to give up. And that’s what happens to most people, actually. If you really look at the ones that ended up being “successful” in the eyes of the society and the ones that didn’t, oftentimes it’s the ones who were successful loved what they did, so they could persevere when it got really tough. And the ones that didn’t love it quit because they’re sane, right? Who would want to put up with this stuff if you don’t love it? So it’s a lot of hard work and it’s a lot of worrying constantly and if you don’t love it, you’re going to fail.”
— Steve Jobs
When going outdoors, design shouldn’t have to take the backseat. These enamel steel cups manufactured using World War Two era machinery are beautifully crafted and designed.
What truly distinguishes the cups is that the rim and the handle — the two spots that get the most abuse — are reinforced with a double dipping of enamel, making this the most steadfast cup in the land. Designed by the durable and rustic Best Made brand, it may just be the most beautiful campfire mug ever made.
This stunning Pocket Watch designed by People People is grabbing the attention of many with its super minimal approach. The designers behind the watch made a deliberate choice to develop a pocket watch rather than a wristwatch, the preferred modern approach of keeping time. They aimed to cite the evolution of the timepiece to primarily a personality statement worn less and less for practicality.
“A watch is something that fits into people’s frame of reference, even though the function has gone from showing time to showing style.”
Caux Collective Redirects: Tiptop Speakers
Three students from Stanford University recently began a Kickstarter campaign in order to fund their reinvention of the bluetooth speaker. The Tiptop Speaker connects to your bluetooth devices wirelessly, just like many other products. However, it is the sleek design configuration, effortless set-up and unique integration of an indoor environment, that makes this speaker stand out.
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Playing video games is a universal experience, designed for young and old but developing and designing video games is something that takes complex coding and artistic ability, or is it?
Pixel Press, is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you draw your own video game (no code required!) and share it with others. It’s a simple four step process – draw, upload and test, design, play and share.
The team at Pixel Press tell us about the amazingly creative project: With the Pixel Press platform you are designing five floors of a video game level. Your hero will start at the bottom and attempt to overcome the obstacles you create to reach the elevator at the end of each floor to advance up to the next floor. Your objective is to create a level that is progressively more challenging from top to bottom.
This pint-sized printer allows you to publish content that’s important to you. Syncing to a cloud service, you are able to subscribe to local news papers, magazines, social media, and even puzzles to keep your brain sharp.
Printing a receipt sized document, Little Printer gives you portable content in a neat little personalised package. Little Printer sits in your home, but it’s BERG Cloud that does the heavy lifting. Because publications are created in our cloud on the Web, not in your front room, we can offer more services for your Little Printer without the need for updates or a replacement product.
“Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.”
— Herman Melville
Caux Collective Redirects: The ‘Empty Memories’ USB Collection
With the intriguing, self-proposed question “what would happen if technology became invisible?” to inspire a new, artistic direction of working, Designers Yoo-Kyung Shin & Hanhsi Chen found the answer in an ingenious fusion of fashionable jewellery and computer technology.
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It’s not often that a product can turn an ethereal experience, like music, into a tactile feeling. Rafl allows you to directly interact with songs by touching, covering, and flicking the speaker.
Designer Kihwan Joo tells us more: Just like fumbling in a candy jar in order to find their favorite one, users can pick up a music using their fingers.
“Life is What Happens To You While You’re Busy Making Other Plans.”
— John Lennon
Meet Spot, a functional and adaptable lighting solution. Whether being used as a task light, floodlight, or an ambient light, spot can fit into any environment and any lifestyle. While focusing on the function of a light, spot also addresses some aesthetic decisions. Minimal form and color choices easily show where and how the user should interact with the light.
The team behind Spot is currently seeking crowd funding:
SPOT currently remains as a prototype although we really believe in its functionality. With your support and sufficient funding, we will be able to complete a first production run and bring this delightful product to your household.
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