Motorola pins its hopes on being modular.
motorola pins its hopes on being modular. project ara is betting on consumers who like to tinker. via washington post [RK]
Mobile devices now a mainstay for young children.
mobile devices now a mainstay for young children. seven out of 10 children younger than 8, four of 10 younger than 2, are using mobile devices. via washington post [RK]
Burberry ceo to lead apple retail.
burberry ceo to lead apple retail. heavyweight whisperer accepts biggest challenge: improve upon success. via apple [RK]
Fingerprint or password?
fingerprint or password? iphone fallout: 53 percent of americans say fingerprint. via washington post [RK]
oracle wins highly innovative and controversial america’s cup 2013.
Even if you’re oblivious to sailboat racing you gotta know by now. Even non-sailing experts say yesterday’s win in the 2013 America’s Cup race may well be the best comeback win for an American team in all of our sport’s history. Down 8-1 with the only one challenger, New Zealand, our Oracle team wins eight races in a row. The winner of eight races wins the cup.
the winner’s
When you’re so far behind it can work for you: there’s nothing to lose. And with each race the sailors began to figure out their boat.
the other guys
Leading 8-1 and needing only one win New Zealand began choking trying to protect that lead.
This highly anticipated race also broke records for controversy and innovation. Golden Gate Yacht Club, the holder of the cup, is charged to name both the venue and the boat for the next challenge. Larry Ellison, GGYC, says the next race will be in high-tech 72-foot-long catamarans driven by carbon fiber wings rather than traditional sails, and raced in San Francisco Bay. Whether by design or not, the boats are so expensive there is only one challenger, hapless New Zealand.
The AC-72 boats are so bleeding edge (they ‘fly above’ the water on hydrofoils and are capable of 50 knots) there are safety issues. In May, Artemis Racing crashed their boat, and Andrew Simpson, one of the crew members, drowned when he was trapped beneath the boat’s platform. All the teams in the regatta struggled to control the boats, and new safety regulations were put in place for the racing. The racing team trained for two years on the AC-45 [ ac45 + ac72 ]
Ellison’s vision was to revitalize the race with innovation and design. Mission accomplished.
Record sales for iphone 5c 5s.
record sales for Apple iphone 5c 5s. pricier 5s outsells 5c 2-to-1. via the guardian [RK]
Augmented reality vizualizer app. Haworth.
a live camera view provides a clear outlook of how a piece of furniture might ‘fit’ into a space.
Here’s a great tool for visualizing products in any environment, all in real-time. Haworth a global leader in the design and manufacturing of furniture, interior architecture and technology solutions, offers an augmented reality app that let’s you visualize furniture in your office or home. Launched in June 2013, early adopters have given the app high marks as a go-to source for interior design ideas.
The app is part of the launch of a new retail store website. Visit the new [ Haworth Store ] for more information on the augmented reality app. The store itself is a great resource where Haworth’s global knowledge database resides. The store also offers a ‘Help Me Choose’ section, which functions as an advisory arm – helping users select and pre-plan. Haworth partnered with the technology firm Springthrough to create the augmented reality app, which is exclusive to the Haworth Store. [ haworth ]
Six-year-old iPhone keeps chugging along.
six-year-old iPhone keeps chugging along. in risky move past year apple chose to by-pass the carriers in europe. via washington post [RK]
IKEA entices potential consumers with augmented reality.
IKEA entices potential consumers with augmented reality. users to virtually place and view ikea furniture in their homes. mobile commerce daily [RK]
Valcucine makes a case for the artisan in the kitchen. Milan 2013.
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The artisan appears in 1993 when the ‘Fabula‘ model was launched, the first kitchen with colored wood and doors inlaid with pictograms. For the designer Gabriele Centazzo, it represented the Mediterranean dream. In 2009 Valcucine presented ‘Invitrum‘, the first 100% recyclable base unit in glass and aluminum. In 2013, both art and tech reappear together as Valcucine’s Milan showroom creatively presents their master craftsmen who set up real workshops showing how they create inlays, mosaics and carvings. We also see the reappearance of Centazzo designing SineTempore (without time), a kitchen conceived to express the values of tradition through the recovery of various ancient handicraft techniques.
With Invitrum, the production process of recycled aluminium has the advantage of consuming only one-twentieth of the energy needed to obtain primary aluminium. Traditional kitchens usually supply base units that are installed side-by-side which means that the chipboard side panel is doubled; Valcucine’s structure has simply a single carcass side in glass. The new glass system is designed to be easily disassembled using only mechanical joints instead of glues.
In the showroom product technicians shared the tests, here Diego Skerlic, a quality official, uses an eyedropper of various stain producing ingredients such as coffee and red wine, as he helps develop fully resistant long-lasting materials.
Laura Carraro and Lisa Battistutta were introduced to Valcucine as mosaic art students and the two continue to collaborate and create for them.
above and below, kitchen program SineTemporare | 2013
Wood sculpture Padovan Giovanni carves away.
Most recently, after three years of research, Valcucine has developed a technique to make inlaid art on glass. The highly technological process is rooted in handmade craft and makes it possible to personalize a kitchen with ideas offered by artists, architects and designer or even by the home owner.
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And even more recently Chicago graphic designer Rick Valicenti and John Pobojewski of (thirst) alerts us to the very same process used for the Valcucine Chicago showroom for NeoCon 2013. The installation of The Elizabeth Project (formally named E) consist of ribbons of colored vinyl cut by hand and infused in glass. ‘Elizabeth’ is the daughter of Chicago architect Gordon Gill: the collaboration done in 2009 when Elizabeth was nine. thirst used motion capture technology and custom software to sample Elizabeth’s energy as she danced in place. [ details ]
e | thirst | 2009
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