If you could take a time machine back to the 1970s what would you do? Designer Alex Varanese knows exactly what he would do, take back every bit of modern consumer technology and make millions. ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS re-imagins four common products from 2010 as if they were designed in 1977: an mp3 player, a laptop, a mobile phone and a handheld video game system.
Innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.
Robert Scoble’s high definition photo of the iPhone 4. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Click to see full-size (5616 × 3744 pixels).
Reblogged from Jay Robinson
Over the past year we’ve all seen the flood of cool but typically useless augmented reality gimmicks and parlor tricks, but Lego found a great use for the technology in their retail stores. Visitors to the store can walk up to the display with any box of Legos and see themselves holding the fully assembled set in the display.
Via Truly Deeply
The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works …
As a follow up to the Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory video posted last year, Chris Cairns and crew reproduced the video in a live setting using a holographic turntable and drumkit. No CG or post production was added to the video—what you see is what the audience saw during the performance.
I’m of the opinion that the advertising agency, in its current form, has a rather bleak future ahead. Certainly the automobile industry has taught us that you can’t continue to profit from a mediocre product forever. Wall Street showed us that eventually greed left unchecked is punished. And newspapers have demonstrated that by ignoring the real opportunities provided by technology you absolutely risk extinction in the longterm. And that’s where, I believe, the advertising industry largely finds itself today: mired in mediocrity, greed, and ignorance.
- Bud Caddell
As everyone is discussing the latest technology announced today, it’s always good to put things into perspective.
Reblogged from Jarred Bishop and ckck
Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring… It’s when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.
If you want to understand the future, don’t pay attention to how technology is changing, pay attention to how childhood is changing.
(via shawnyeager)
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