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Metal 3D printing like here: https://www.designboom.com/des... [designboom.com]

Yep, I'd heard of that, I think I saw a video on it, however, that was on extremely high end commercial equipment, I think near $1M worth of equipment or so....definitely not in the public reach, at least not anytime soon.

It is exciting to see that this may be the future....

But that is WAY off in the foreseeable future.

But would be really great, not just for guns, but for any parts you might need, like auto replacement parts, household appliance repairs, etc.

Metal 3D printing like here: https://www.designboom.com/des...

Partner with a tech company to set up a corner where donors place their items on something like a fit bot and to have it automatically barcoded, photograph, categorize (size, brand, style), and tagged if they want a tax deduction receipt (or try it sans robot first, but really you want to make it easier than it would be for them to just ebay the stuff themselves), and have a computer automatically generate the receipt (I've waiting more than 30 minutes just to have someone sign off on my receipt before - could of done that work while I was waiting). Moreover, those clothes that are bar-coded, and cataloged, and photographed, can be automatically placed for sale in an an online market that the entire country has access to. And imagine how much easier it would be to shop (and maintain) the store if all the clothing had an easily identifiable size tag on it.

You can still let those that don't want receipts dump if you aren't getting enough people willing to chip in.

OK, here's a site with an interview with IDEO's designer. It has the key pictures without the UI from hell.

This is the Eric Schmidt vision of the future. People will still go to offices and have meetings. They'll just have better cars and presentation tools, and better delivery services for physical stuff.

Will we really need that many office workers? That's the huge question. Given the head counts at newer companies, probably not.

There's a readable version of the diagram image on http://www.designboom.com/tech...

Solar cars tend to be super-aerodynamic, and none of them really qualify as pretty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.... Almost nothing on this page is really pretty either: http://www.designboom.com/cont...

Besides, that saharan dust that the rain brings down mostly lands on my car (along with pigeon shit) when it's sat on the drive.

But the community had to pay for a bit of yellow paint to mark the bus-stop and a Festivus pole to fix a sign with 'Bus-Stop' on it. That 'investment' needs to generate money!

This, so much this.

Seriously, San Francisco - What the fuck? I don't understand why this even counts as an issue - Would it really help your budget that much if you could force Google and company to take public transit to work? Or more likely, would it just massively increase congestion on your roads and make the average SF'er bitch about those damned geeks driving up the cost of parking spaces?

Like it or not, Silicon Valley didn't destroy SF, it made SF. You want to go back to the 1970s? Just move to Detroit today, and enjoy your cheap housing and everything that comes with it.

The Google buses amount to nothing more than carpools, an environmentally friendly way to move a few thousand people from home to work and back every day. Just admit it, this has nothing to do with public transit, and everything to do with gentrification - Not a bad word, BTW, it just means making the slums safe for human habitation again.

Skimmed through TFA, it doesn't seem like he has any suggestions on what to focus on, as long as it's not everyone dogpiling on one thing.

But the way things are going, maybe we should all be working on building these:
http://www.designboom.com/design/mobile-homeless-shelter/

that's not a homeless shelter realistically. a true homeless person would sell it for booze.

to who? some guy who needs it for camping(stick to the back of a pickup) or as a rock festival sleeping area. for that it looks nice and you could make a mint renting those for that. the laptop area in the sketch is just funny - it's certainly meant for some different kind of nonexistant type of homeless person.

Skimmed through TFA, it doesn't seem like he has any suggestions on what to focus on, as long as it's not everyone dogpiling on one thing.

But the way things are going, maybe we should all be working on building these:
http://www.designboom.com/design/mobile-homeless-shelter/

This "Superomniphobic" Nanoscale Coating Repels Almost Any Liquid, but on the other hand, MIT's also nanoscale Liquiglide non-stick coating allows even sticky stuffs such as ketchup to flow out of the bottle completely.

http://www.designboom.com/design/liquidglide-ketchup-bottle-by-mit-researchers/

I must admit that I'm not familiar with both of these technological development, so... Can someone familiar with them explain to us the similarity / compatibility of both developments?

Thanks !

I wonder if they noticed that the pictures of the Macphone they show were taken with the product upside down.

To me Moebius feels rather unique. I'm no fan of mysticism but I appreciate Moebius's spirituality, in an ambiguous way:
It feels good, and that is valuable, even though I don't take the philosophy behind it seriously from an intellectual point of view.

Moebius started with Major Fatal(Le Garage Hermetique). It was an experiment in freewheeling on intuition.
There's no coherent story or style, just playing around and making things that look like a story. Sometimes funny, sometimes just beautiful.
http://5.asset.soup.io/asset/2278/1541_9fd7.jpeg

A more recent picture like this (Starwatcher) just feels very nice to watchhttp://moebiusribbon1960.blog.nordjob.com/

Blueberry was much more conventional but it evolved into an excellent western. The story was not written by Giraud. This cover image is a remake of a scene with James Garner, but the original doesn't have the odd sense of peace and violence
http://www.designboom.com/cms/images/erica/-----moebius/moebius06.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/5578/modu-modular-mobile-phone.html

(and this is just the first link of a google search...)

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/2011/jenny/bloon/bloon05.jpg
Looks like a pressure capsule.
Jenny is a lung buster. ( apologies to the Ramones )

Apple was the first to remove floppies. All of the rest of the industry followed suit.

http://www.designboom.com/history/floppydisk.html

If you're going to try and revise history you should probably wait a few more years. The computer geeks from the 90's are still alive and breathing thank you very much.

Good point. I'll use a weapon instead: flamethrower. Its both subtle and Akidio proof.

Thankfully, I have stock for immediate delivery of a fully patented Combustible Fuel Supply Line Cut-off Systems

http://www.designboom.com/history/monobloc/03.jpg

No, seriously.

It's quite comfy.

Geez, kids nowadays...;-)

Actually, we're talking about the original electronic version, you insensitive clod!

Which, incidentally, was on an oscilloscope...circa 1958 (I was three! :-))
Check out the site, which includes photos, and 'spacewar'...true classics...

http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/pong.html

'tennis for two' on an oscilloscope
working at brookhaven national laboratory, a us nuclear research
lab in upton, new york, william a. higinbotham, a chain-smoking,
fun-loving character and self-confessed pinball player, wants to
develop an open house exhibit at bnl that will entertain people as
they learn. his idea is to use a small analog computer in the lab to
graph and display the trajectory of a moving ball on an oscilloscope,
with which users can interact.
missile trajectory plotting is one of the specialties of computers at
this time, the other being cryptography.
along with technical specialist robert v. dvorak who actually
assembles the device, to create in three weeks the game system they
name tennis for two, and it debuts with other exhibits in the
brookhaven gymnasium at the next open house in october 1958.
in the rudimentary side-view tennis game, the ball bounces off a long
horizontal line at the bottom of the oscilloscope, and there is a small
vertical line in the centre to represent the net.
the game was simple, but fun to play, and its charm was infectious.
http://www.pong-story.com/inventor.htm
brookhaven national laboratory - www.bnl.gov
tribute to william higinbotham, inventor of 'pong' - fas.org/cp/pong_fas.htm

He's Australian.
He would have made a barbecue out of it. I guess.
But ther's lot's of other options

I'm going to fucking fold that guy! *fling*

Apple has been "lifting" COOL ideas/design before the inception of the Mac. Apple "lifted" the graphical interface - GUI/DESKTOP/ICONS - directly from XEROX's PARC research development (settled in court- Apple paid) - PARC also initiated/developed the MOUSE. Many recent Apple products look like direct knock-offs of Dirter Rams designs for Braun's 1950s and 60s sound products. Check out the shirt pocket portable radio/record player. The Braun "Phonotransistor TP1" from the 1950s - played back music from small discs (eh!) as well as radio playback. See down to the bottom of the page at http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/rams.html

actually most theaters do have captioning, you just have to ask for the mirror thing that goes in your armrest.

article w/diagrams here

Yes, but have you seen the *gasp* 3d command line?

Well, here are some starting points in that direction:

3D alphabet
XMLTerm is both a command line "terminal", like an Xterm, and also a web page. XMLterm adds powerful hypertext and graphical capabilities to the Xterm-like terminal interface through its use of XML.
Textmode Quake (ttyquake) uses plain text characters for its 3D rendering.

Dutch designer Dick van Hoff recently designed beautiful hand-powered kitchen utensils. To quote:

Dick van Hoff's Tyranny of the Plug series of kitchen machines chop, churn and blend, but don't require electricity. They are powered by human energy-- by pulling on them, turning them or moving them to and fro... and they function beautifully.

Van Hoff is calling into question the fact that members of contemporary society readily accept new objects that are powered by electricity, yet rarely contemplate where the power is coming from. Instead, his products make people invest their human energy into powering them.

Sleekly yet simply designed of cast iron, chrome, glass, and wood, these machines run smoothly and with efficiency, while fostering awareness and contemplation.

here's a link to prototypes of this, in headwear.

I was watching a documentary on TLC (I think, Tivo removes the connection shows have with channels) on the history of video games called Gamerz, and Ralph came up. Apparently Nolan Bushnell stole the idea for Pong from Baer when he was demonstrating what would become the Odessey. I had never heard of this before, but there was a lawsuit involved and Ralph got some money, but none of the fame.

There's more info at http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/pong.html

NOTE: That's a rip-off site. The original site (www.hatsofmeat.com) seems to have died... Bummer