quirky | social product development is a social product development company that uses crowdsourcing to bring new products to life. Each week, it engages its online community to collaborate on all aspects of product design and development — from ideation all the way to packaging.
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The Design Interactions, Royal College of Art, work in progress show 2011 is now open.
Opening times are: 10am – 5.30pm
Last day is 7th Feb.
There is also some very good work from Animation, Architecture, Innovation Design Engineering and Vehicle Design.
I have put some photos up on Flickr.
The Design Interactions work in progress show 2010 is now open.
Opening times are: 11am – 6pm
Last day is 9th Feb.
There is also some very good work from Animation, Architecture, Innovation Design Engineering, Printmaking and Vehicle Design.
I have put some photos up on Flicker.
This would make following a haynes car manual a lot easier. More info
TinkerCall is computer-aided design (CAD) tool for synthetic biology. It is Open Source software that lets you design your own cells.
I wonder how long it will be before there is CAD -> CAM for synthetic biology?
An interesting talk by Stan Dehaene. Very similar to some of the ideas I touched on in http://danfs.co.uk/#Consciousness
Edge In Paris: SIGNATURES OF CONSCIOUSNESS — A TALK BY STANISLAS DEHAENE.
Animated map of UK unemployment (www.guardian.co.uk) – It seems obvious to plot a map with an animated time layer; I’m surprised I haven’t seen it more often. It adds so much more to it.
MemeTracker crawls 1.6 million mainstream media and blog sites, analyzes what people talk about, and visualizes the results using Flare.
The paths of air traffic over North America visualized by Aaron Koblin
