NASA’s new stunning high resolution picture of our earth:

Sony exhibited at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas a study of a tablet PC which follows the „BMW Ghina light“ idea of using textile for light and flexible body covering.
The flat rear cover can be changed into a sculptural stand by unfolding an inside
hidden frame, stretching the fabric .

Source: Notebookjournal.de

Transform every surface into an interactive board!

Mogees - Gesture recognition with contact-microphones from bruno zamborlin on Vimeo.

(Mogees)

What is your choice in these 4 different variations?

1. Original variation
2. Simple variation
3. More simple variation
(4. No logo variation)

(Via Behance & A2591)

Very nice touch gestures navigating through an ebook.

London-based artist Zadok Ben David created this incredible installation using cut steel botanical specimens modeled from old textbook illustrations, each embedded in a thin layer of sand. On first encountering the sprawling array of plants they appear completely black, thus the installation’s title: Blackfield. However when viewed from the opposite side, a field of black turns into a wall of color. (artclub)

20000 plants made of stainless steel, hand painted during the past 3 years, planted on the floor, covered by sand:

Video of the installation

(Via thisiscolossal)

Researchers from University of California Irvine have created the lightest metal on earth.
The material is constructed from a micro-lattice of nickel phosphorous tubes that are 99.9% air.
The tubes are hollow and have walls 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. Despite that it has the strength of metal with the added benefit of being ultra resistant to strain.

Light Metal Video
www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6058/962.abstract

turritopsisnutricula

One of humanity’s greatest aspirations is already a reality for…a medusa!
The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to operate a cell trans-differentiation: in more common terms it is able to transform its old cells into new young cells. In theory the process can be infinite which makes this medusa…biologically immortal. But it can’t do anything against disease or predation so the medusa can still die if it gets a cold during this upcoming winter, for example.

An amazing idea from UC Berkeley researchers, based on another brilliant technology (early stage of research…see video), that allows picture reconstruction from neuronal signals. By reversing the process we would be able to train our brain without effort. To be clearer, if you want to play football like Messi, you would just have to make an IRM of his brain while he is thinking about playing football, then while you are seeing the same images the technology will activate the same active neuronal zones in your brain than Messi’s ones…by repeating this for a few days your brain (and body) will become use to this process and you will improve your football skills without having conscience of it…….the researches already experiment this (for baseball) and it seems to give good results.

watch the Brain Training movie

Designer Yeon Su Kim is famous for his eccentric designs. He now introduced a concept for a camera which consist of no case and only of two modules. One for the thumb and one for the forefinger.

Get more info: www.yankodesign.com