Posts Tagged ‘process’

Voiceprints

Voiceprints is an experiment in the translation of audio information to visual imagery. Artist Pierre Proske records a person’s voice into a microphone, analyzes the audio file for frequency content, loops the sample, and then generates a variety of textile patterns arranged according to the individual’s...

April 28th, 2007 | digifab | Read More

Freeaire

Now that energy consciousness is becoming increasingly widespread, one cannot fail to notice common practices that call for more energy-efficient solutions. One of these practices involves refrigeration within cold climates: a process that involves cooling goods within a heated space, which is highly...

April 1st, 2007 | metals | Read More

Switchable Mirror

By using a thin film of magnesium-titanium alloy, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has produced a switchable mirror that can be easily transformed between reflective and transparent states. The mirror window is 60 x 70 cm in size, and has been designed to reduce energy...

February 25th, 2007 | glass | Read More

Optical Camouflage

While new high-performance, light-transmitting materials such as aerogel and light-transmitting concrete compel us to question the nature of solidity, a new technology developed by the University of Tokyo seeks to make matter disappear altogether. Scientists at the Tachi Laboratory have developed Optical...

January 21st, 2007 | feature, interactive | Read More

Vertical Garden

In addition to its positive aesthetic qualities, natural foliage is being used increasingly as a ‘living’ building material with the pragmatic effects of air purification, acoustic absorption, and thermal insulation. Patrick Blanc’s vertical garden, known as Le Mur Végétal in French,...

January 8th, 2007 | biomaterials | Read More

MetaMaterials

The idea of invisibility has fascinated people for millennia and has been an inspiration or ingredient of myths, novels and films, from the Greek legend of Perseus versus Medusa to H.G. Well’s Invisible Man. Dr. Ulf Leonhardt at Scotland’s St. Andrews University has recently published two...

August 17th, 2006 | polymers | Read More

Sensitive Floor

Sensitive Floor is an interactive video floor projection that reacts to the way people walk on it. Developed by iO Agency, this new media for physical spaces transforms mundane floors into arresting communication tools. Sensitive Floor adapts effortlessly to different contexts and needs, such as retail,...

July 21st, 2006 | interactive | Read More

Ombrae System

Ombrae System is a patent-pending computer-based image-processing system that allows for any digital image to be embedded directly into any material substrate. The image is not a transfer or material composite, like a hologram, but is made from physical three-dimensional pixels or “optical tiles.”...

March 27th, 2006 | digifab, feature | Read More

Virtual Clay

You may soon be able to reach out and manipulate clay in cyberspace, thanks to a new tool for transmitting touch to the virtual world. “This technology will give product designers, or even artists, a tool that will allow them to touch, shape, and manipulate virtual objects just as they would with...

March 15th, 2006 | interactive | Read More

Glass-Coated Plastic

Plastics come in many forms. They are used to make boats, magnifiers, skis and all manner of household items. Transparent plastic sheet panels would be ideal in the manufacture of windows or headlamps of cars, for example, and tinted plastic foils could more readily be used to protect against the sun...

November 8th, 2005 | glass | Read More