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KieranTimberlake is pleased to announce the release of 
Cellophane House™. Cellophane House™ chronicles the conception, assembly, display and disassembly of a five-story, off-site fabricated dwelling made of transparent, recyclable materials commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. 



Designed by Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake and their architecture firm KieranTimberlake, Cellophane House™ takes a radically different approach to off-site fabrication, reinventing the way buildings are assembled, what they are made of, and the experience of living in them. It demonstrates an end-of-life strategy that, enabled by an innovative structural frame and variety of connectors, makes disassembly and waste-divergence inherent in the building’s construction.

 The book contains a detailed discussion of the house and 105 color photographs and illustrations. The iBooks version contains a time-lapse video of the assembly process.

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They even developed their own laptop, the XO “rugged, low-cost, low-power” laptop that’s easy to read outside for those schools that don’t have buildings to operate from. In countries where libraries are small and outdated, or, in some cases, nonexistent, access to the Internet is an invaluable resource for children who would otherwise have no contact with the world outside their own. Children in many developing nations are already becoming more educated than their parents’ generation, meaning they will be the first crop of young adults with the knowledge and ingenuity to pull their struggling economies out of a slump, and these laptops are the first step. All donations are accepted. $199 buys a laptop.

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for some people watches are a status symbol – the bigger and blingier the better.

For others they merely tell the time. We’re not concerned with either group, only with those who consider a watch like any other design element in their life, as something that’s functional but also interesting, designed to make life both easier and better. For those people there is & Design, a Japanese studio with four bold watches, the Pentagon, the Hexagon, the Icon and the LED. Let all those who can’t read time without a little help (like actual numbers on a watch face) be warned. These timepieces are stripped away of all extraneous information and rely on simple geometric shapes and basic yet striking color combinations. The first one to grab my eye was the Icon, which, with “a nod to the era of 8-bit computer graphics” has a face like an old Mac icon. The Hexagon and Pentagon take similar design cues, and the LED rounds out the bunch with a pop of color. ($75, at the MoMA store)

designer: & design

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one school, the illinois institute of technology says students will be able to download lecture notes and powerpoint presentations and call them up on their iPads during class. they also can use the devices to read books, check e-mail and surf the internet.

faculty, particularly those who teach engineering and computer science, can build applications specific to their courses. IIT already offers courses on the development of mobile applications.

tuition at IIT is $31,000, the ipad retails for $499.

two other schools giving away the tablets are seton hill university in pennsylvania and george fox university in oregon.

there will probably be more announcements.





the ipad tablet is a concept that may reshape the way we use the computer.

chris anderson, wired magazine editor, “tablet computers are going to be huge. they’re going to sell in the tens of millions of units and reach standards on how we interact with digital media and how we pay for it. … tablets will allow us to do digital magazines that are intelligently designed, flow correctly and have the artistic intent preserved.”

richard stengel, managing editor of time magazine, ” any new technological form creates new ways artistically and journalistically of doing what we’ve always done. the thing about the ipad is that it’s a work in progress: it will transform how we do what we do, but until we see how it works and how people use it, we won’t really know. just the way movie cameras changed the way we covered world war II, video cameras changed how we covered vietnam and even how twitter changed the way we covered the iranian revolution, the ipad will transform the way journalism works. it will become a new way of storytelling.”

A three-way collaboration between game design legend Tak Fung (MiniSquadron, Fable), art director Dave Ferner (United Visual Artists) and musician Matthias Kispert (D-Fuse), Fox Vs Duck has a unique atmosphere all of its own! Full review at app advice

Designer: studiofungfung
YouTube trailer: fox vs duck
More info: fox vs duck

The How It Is application works with iPhone 3G and iPod touch (though the location service will only work with iPhone 3G). It is available on the App StoreSM. The App Store lets you browse applications and download them directly to your iPhone or iPod touch.

customer review: “While I have found apps often distracting (trenches) or addictive in short bursts (doodle jump), this is the first time I have experienced a fully immersive app. Play it with your headphones in the dark and allow yourself to be impressed with how you deal with the unknown. If you have no interest in what is an experience not a game then don’t bother, but I thought it was utterly brilliant.”

Resources:
tate modern
itunes app store
app designer: champayne valentine

The color contrast off secondary clock hands are delicately reduced to appear like a shadow. The clock is available in both square and round versions in either white, gold, charcoal, and grey. Dimensions (W X.X D): 25cm X 25cm X 3.8cm

Designer: kitmen kueng

What’s in a name?
A lot of griping on the choice of the name. It appears iPad has been around since 2007.




above: inhabitat – is this really the iPad ? 2008!

above: find me a property – pad (or iPad) ? 2007!

listen to the skeptics…
web pro news – five reasons fails to impress
newsweek – disappoints

listen to the wafflers…
showbiz gossip – does it really disappoint?
huffington post - a disappointment ? plus
apple’s top 10 hit and misses

the advocates…
ny daily news – top 10 things you should know