According to Merriam Webster fulguration means “the act or process of flashing like lightning” and that’s kind of the principle behind artist Julius von Bismarck’s device. It’s a reactive flash image-projector… or, to put it another way, a real-world hack of other people’s photos. Sounds sinister, looks sinister… works great. Adapted from a flash gun and an old SLR, it senses the flash of someone’s camera, and then quickly illuminates itself, projecting images or text onto the object that was being snapped. Video

‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’

Cultural analyst Jonathan Meades‘ new Magnetic North series featured this amazing memorial site in Lithuania which he described as - like the sentimentally tragic road accident flowers The Hill of Crosses has more pathos and more sadness than the stern formality of offical war memorials because they were made by the people who suffered. A graphic example of ‘them and us’.Distinctly vernacular.

This mobile phone handset was a collaboration with NTT DoCoMo and NEC. We wanted a product that felt accessible and close to home, so we used the concept of a drinking glass, a form familiar to the hand. We cast the phone in two layers of transparent and coloured resins to give a sense of transparency and depth. The indicator lights that signal an incoming call or text message move like bubbles, representing both bubbles in a drink and the way that information transmits from inside to outside. The earphone jack lets the user “drink up” music like you would put a straw in your glass

MIELE SPACE SHIP MRS II / parasiteparadise.nl expo utrecht / portable office units made from recovered waste materials as washing machines, fridges, car tires / cooperation with 2012 architects rotterdam

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Nature does not stop in the city. The Hudson River, brushing against the concrete and glass of the urban fabric, rises up and down twice a day with the eternal clock of the tides. This tidal activity connects us to the ocean, to the moon and to a daily schedule that is nature’s own.

Tide Flowers will register the tidal movement with a simple visual presence of brilliantly-colored flowers blooming at high tide and closing at low tide. Tide Flowers is made up of thirty-three flower units, each with six petals, attached to selected wooden piles on two piers. Twenty-five flowers will be placed in a field-like formation on selected pilings at the end of one pier. Stacy Levy

This new version of the 3D Display Cube now uses a custom LED module that lets you to snap together a spatial display of any size. This along with the fact that individual modules can be easily replaced should they go out, make the unit more architectural applicable.

PixelSkin02 is extension of the first version.

Orangevoid’s prototype uses shape memory alloy to actuate a set of four triangular panels. Depending on the opening coefficient each set of four panels acts as a pixel (255 states between fully open to fully closed). PixelSkin is a heterogeneous smart surface research carried out as part of the PhD project. The surface could create dynamic windows allowing view or controlling internal lighting condition across the building membrane in response to subject states and their positions. The surface could also be used simultaneously to generate low resolution images, low refresh rate videos or patterns.

The heat of the bulb makes this shape-memory alloy lamp “bloom” whenever the light is turned on. “hanabi”, the Japanese word for “fireworks”, literally means “flower + fire.” Both flowers and fire fade away so quickly and easily. Like its namesake, this light flickers between beauty and disappearance. More from Nendo