Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Networks of Design

Networks of Design, a conference on recent academic interest in the fields of design history, technology and the social sciences in the ‘networks’ of interactions that inform knowledge formation and design.


Networks of Design

Networks of Design "responds to recent academic interest in the fields of design history, technology and the social sciences in the ‘networks’ of interactions that inform knowledge formation and design. Studying networks foregrounds infrastructure, negotiations, processes, strategies of interconnection, and the heterogeneous relationships between people and things."
Thematic Strands

Networks of Texts: including images, documents & databases
Networks of Ideas: including theories, disciplines & concepts (among them ANT)
Networks of Technology: including mechanical & virtual technologies
Networks of Things: including material & technological artefacts
Networks of People: including collectives & individuals
  
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Friday, August 22, 2008

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The Fenstar a Military UFO

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Flying saucer that can plant explosives or bugs set for frontline

A flying saucer that can sneak into buildings to spot enemy gunmen or plant explosive devices or bugs could be used by British troops on the frontline within a year.

The Fenstar flying saucer
GFS Projects Ltd Loo

Explanation of the Technology

Image of early test flight

Section one — anti torque.
The rotation of the fan causes the body to rotate in the opposite direction. By placing a series of vanes in the airflow the torque is neutralised.

Control of the craft is in three sections.

Section two — yaw control.
On sections of the lifting surface a series of moveable flaps, acting in unison enable it to turn left or right.

Section three — directional control.
Flaps on the periphery of the craft provide directional control as the movement into the lift airflow changes, the lift causes the craft to tilt and move in the direction of the tilt.

The craft has a natural neutral dynamic balance making it very stable in flight and in hover.


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Friday, August 15, 2008

The Lotus Ice Vehicle

About the a biofuel-powered Lotus Ice Vehicle, specially developed for research in the Moon-Regan Trans Antarctic Expedition
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Lotus Ice Vehicle
Lotus Ice Vehicle 1
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Engineered by Lotus the CIV will be taken to Antarctica on the Moon Regan TransAntarctic Expedition to assist with research in the region. Read more here: http://www.transantarcticexpedition.com/
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Lotus Ice Vehicle 2
Andew Regan and Andrew Moon Trans Antarctic Expedition
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The Moon-Regan Trans Antarctic Expedition will endeavour to cross the continent of Antarctica from the west coast to the South Pole, then heading north through the Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range to the coast at McMurdo. The explorers will be covering distance of around 3,000 miles.

A bio-fuelled Concept Ice Vehicle (CIV) has been developed specifically for the expedition. Equipped with an ice radar, the un-manned CIV will lead the way and scan for hidden crevasses. Two larger Science Support Vehicles (SSVs) carrying the team and their equipment will follow the pilot vehicle.


“We want to show that you can move round in a gentler way to the environment: from using less fuel to the ability to move around reasonably quickly.” Andrew Regan

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Realistic 3D Facial Animations (video)

Pendulum Studio's Alter ego 3D facial performance software for motion pictures, commercials, video games etc. can produce unbelievably real digital faces in record time.
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Pendulum Alter Ego Facial Animations
Pendulum Studio's Alter Ego division works wonders with 3D facial animations.
AlterEgo: Full Performance Facial Motion-Capture for Character Animation
title about

Conceived out of a passion for compelling
and emotive digital characters, AlterEgo
is the facial performance division of award-winning animation studio, Pendulum.

Our innovative process delivers
exceptional results at remarkable speeds, allowing vast amounts of
facial mo-cap data to be transformed into extremely realistic and
accurate facial animation!


Mar Antony blend shapes

Click here to expand and to see stills
from the Mark Antony project.

(See Client & Projects for
up-to-date demos and examples of
AlterEgo in production)

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Friday, August 8, 2008

Mozilla's Snowl -- A Unified Messaging Interface



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The developers of Firefox have unveiled an experimental project, Snowl, designed to gather all your inbound communications, whether they're in the form of email, RSS, Twitter, or social network updates. The interface will be search based, let you prioritize messages, and take advantage of the browser. In fact, the prototype is a Firefox extension.

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Introducing Snowl



An Experiment with Messaging in the Browser




The Initial Prototype



the list view


the river view

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Snowl from Mozilla Labs

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TechCrunch

Snowl: Unified Messaging In Your (Firefox) Browser

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Mozilla’s Snowl Lets You Surf the Web and Handle Messaging Simultaneously




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Monday, August 4, 2008

Myoats -- Create Designs Online

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Myoats is a community where people create designs using an online drawing application.
These designs can be rated, downloaded, and archived. The
Most Liked designs are rewarded
by being featured on the home page.

The designs that you create can be:


  • Downloaded as an image.

  • Downloaded as a transparent png.

  • Saved to your personal account, which allows for editing and re-saving.

  • Made into a wallpaper

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