Global Village Construction Set in 2 Minutes from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo.
12/1/12
exoesqueletos por Ekso Bionics.
This year, California-based Ekso Bionics will begin shipping their eponymous product, a robotic exoskeleton that will enable paraplegics to do the unthinkable: Walk. New York's Mount Sinai Hospital and other rehabilitation clinics in the U.S. and Europe are expected to purchase commercial models once performance and reliability trials are cleared--trials overseen, interestingly enough, by America's Food & Drug Administration.
Ekso Bionics began as Berkeley Bionics in 2005, and early military cooperation helped the firm produce the HULC, a militarized version of the exoskeleton designed to help able-bodied soldiers tirelessly lug heavy payloads through rugged terrain. Lockheed Martin (whose somewhat creepy company motto is "We Never Forget Who We're Working For") licensed the technology in 2009, freeing the company now known as Ekso to begin focusing on its civilian version. The company's work has since earned it a 2012 Edison Award nomination.
It's hard not to be moved by the video of an early product tester, a woman who has not walked since sustaining a spinal injury nearly 20 years ago. For some reason Ekso has rendered the video unembeddable, but it can be freely viewed here.
From an engineering standpoint, Ekso's device is remarkable; as for the design aesthetic, well, the photos here tell the tale. Were I an omnipotent angel investor, the first thing I'd do is pair the company with the superb talents of Scott Summit's Bespoke Innovations.
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10/11/11
Ecologizate vieja!
PET Bottles To The Oil Spill Rescue
A Picture Perfect photo of Barack Obama swimming with his daughter in Florida is not the answer to oil spills! It takes more than that to contain the damage and get the affected areas back to their feet. A moment of thought goes out to the Oil Fence here, which is made from recycled PET Plastic bottles, fitted with special rubber caps on both ends. The logic is to reuse the trashed bottles for a greater good like containing spills without adding burden to the environment. The color scheme of orange and yellow, sure makes it look bright and cheery against the black slick of oil!
Designers: Min A Namgung & Jangwoon Kim
http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/08/17/pet-bottles-to-the-oil-spill-rescue/
8/11/11
6/11/11
Taller de mimbre.
participa Leticia Saad. nuestra profe de Taller de Produccion 1.
via: http://www.cmd.gov.ar/
31/10/11
increible mesa. La hacemos?
Pewter Desk
28th June 2011, Porthluney Cove, Caerhays, Cornwall.
My largest pewter casting to date! I returned to my favourite beach at Caerhays on the south coast of Cornwall to produce a solid pewter desk using the same primitive form of sand-casting I experimented with whilst studying at the RCA. The date of the casting was scheduled for the 28th June as high tide coincided with sunrise and I knew I needed at least 6 hours to carve the mould and cast the pewter before the water table began to rise again. At 4:30am I began carving the negative of the desk into the sand using no more than a kitchen knife and a metal rod and by 10:30 the mould was ready for casting. We melted 180kg of pewter (92% tin, 2% copper, 6% antimony) in 30 stainless steel saucepans on 30 gas camping stoves. Myself and five assistants (including my dad), wearing leather welding gauntlets and safety goggles, began pouring the molten pewter into the sand mould one saucepan at a time in quick succession until the liquid pewter reached the brim of the mould. The pewter took over an hour to cool and solidify before I could begin to dig away the sand and excavate the the pewter desk, and between five of us we easily managed to lift the finished desk out from the sand. The natural texture of the sand appears on the legs and underside whilst the smooth seemingly molten surface of the pewter remains on the top surface of the desk.
With thanks to:
Richard Lamb, Gemma Holt, Laurence Symonds, Patrick Gottelier, Peter Doubleday and 10 students from Falmouth University 3D Design department.
Photography: Max Lamb, Gemma Holt and Peter Doubleday.
Private commission, unique.
V[[ia: http://maxlamb.org/
24/10/11
Silla de bandas.
Bandstuhl
19. Oktober 20112
Der Bandstuhl ist Teil von Markus Bangerters Bachelorarbeit mit dem Titel Polyfine. Das Sitzmöbel wurde aus thermoplastischer Chemiefaser geformt, welche durch Zuführung von Hitze erstarrt und eine leicht elastische, aber stabile Struktur erhält. Die daraus resultierenden Möbel haben ein extrem geringes Gewicht und sind selbstverständlich alltagstauglich.
E-Mail > markusbangerter@gmx.ch
Macetas
Weight Vases
What is a vase? How does it work?
Those were simple questions I asked myself for this historical object which
was created since Neolithic period.
I found that, all the vases in the world have a same basic principle to hold
flowers.
There are 2 important parts which function differently. Top part (vase-mount),
has a duty to hold flower stem and base part, to hold water and also offer
a stability to the vase.
“Weight” brings a new perspective on a vase design by the separation of 2
different parts which support each other.
Water container made of concrete pile-up on a steel piece to give a stability
for holding flowers.
In the collection, there are 4 vases for different flower setting from single
flower to flowers panel.
Decha developed the project while studying at the ECAL ( University of Art
and Design Lausanne ) in 2011
Weight Vases
Producer : Specimen Editions
Materials : Waterproof concrete, Powder coated steel
Steel Colour : Black
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