3D printed exo-prosthetic leg becomes a customizable body part. Dec 23, 2014 3D printed exo-prosthetic leg becomes a customizable body part 3D printed exo-prosthetic leg becomes a customizable body partimages courtesy of william root.
3D printed Exo Prosthetic Leg by William Root. The “Exo-Prosthetic” created by William Root, is a 3D printed artificial leg made from laser-sintered titanium, which uses a 3D scan of the wearer’s truncated limb for fit, and a 3D scan of the intact limb for form…
Hack Your Mood With Chromotherapy Glasses. Crown & Flint's sunglasses lets you swap out lenses so as to improve your balance, awareness, and creativity Crown & Flint is an eyewear brand that is as concerned with your emotions as with your style.
Subscribed to the concept of chromotherapy, it aims to guide your mood swings by altering the colors you will see. Chromotherapy, or color therapy, is an alternative medicine method which uses our experience of colors to achieve physical or mental changes. These sunglasses explore this concept with swappable lenses in different colors. Each color is associated with a certain mood. Color therapy might not have a lot of science to back it up, but colors and the emotions we feel are surely related. Messner Mountain Museum in South Tyrol by Zaha Hadid Architects. Messner insisted that the museum’s openings were aligned with certain iconic Alpine peaks.
More than happy to oblige, the architects created a window that frames the silhouette of the Peitlerkofel Mountain to the southeast, a second opening that is directed at the Heiligkreuzkofel peak to the south, and a six-meter balcony that faces the Ortler and the South Tyrol to the west. 4,000 cubic meters of earth and rock were excavated to make room for the building, which were then placed on top and around it, literally embedding it into the landscape. The building’s reinforced concrete canopies and walls were cast in situ, and are between 40 and 70 cm thick in order to support the weight of the rock above them. {YatzerTip} The summit of Kronplats/Plan de Corones can be reached on foot after a four-hour hike from nearby villages; it can also be reached by car, cablecar and the ropeways of nearby ski trails. Ying gao - designer. (NO)WHERE (NOW)HERE – Interactive Dresses by Ying Gao.
Interactive Dresses by Ying Gao. Pirate Manu | On September 11, 2013 2 interactive dresses, Super organza, photoluminescent thread, PVDF, electronic devices.
The new tech allowing blind people to ‘see’ art. Those of us with sight take it for granted that we can easily experience visual art, from ancient to new media, and every style and medium in between.
But what about those with various levels of visual impairment, who may have been born fully blind or missed their chance at visiting The Louvre or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City when they had fully functioning eyesight? Marc Dillon, an open source enthusiast and software programmer from Helsinki, Finland, thinks he’s found a way around the problem with Unseen Art. Dillon describes the project, which is currently raising funds on Indiegogo, as 3D-printed art for the visually impaired and blind.
But Unseen Art is much bigger than a simple startup. Dillon, who is Unseen Art’s program manager and evangelist, sees it as a global open source program where various artists and other creatives can volunteer to 3D model classical paintings like a Vincent Van Gogh self portrait, or even Michelangelo’s statue of David. Rob Scharff's Soft Robotics hand responds to a human grip. Dutch Design Week 2015: Delft University of Technology graduate Rob Scharff has created a soft robotic limb that can shake hands with people.
The hand was created as part of Scharff's Soft Robotics research project – which focuses on the ways robots can be integrated with more tactile materials, and so improve robot-human interactions. Video showing a demonstration of Rob Scharff's Soft Robotics 3D-printed hand "Robots are becoming omnipresent in our lives," Scharff told Dezeen. "This makes it very interesting and important to think about robotics from a design perspective. " "Currently, most robots are relatively rigid machines which make unnatural movements.
Video: using computer algorithms in design. Future Makers: Alessandro Zomparelli of Italian design studio MHOX, which produces customised 3D-printed fashion accessories, says designing with computer algorithms is like exploring a new material (+ movie).
"It's exciting to be a designer today, because we have digital tools that allow us to create something incredible," Zomparelli says in the the movie, which was filmed by Dezeen at MHOX's studio in Bologna, Italy. "If you are a sculptor, then you have to know your material, you have to explore it.
And using these digital tools is quite similar – there is a whole new landscape for designers to explore. " MHOX, which Zomparelli founded together with Filippo Nassetti, specialises in using generative design to create 3D-printed fashion accessories. "We are exploring the opportunities of digital tools and 3D printing technology in product design for the body," Zomparelli says. Adidas combines ocean plastic and 3D printing for trainers. Sports brand Adidas has created a concept trainer with an upper made using waste plastic filtered out of the oceans and a 3D-printed midsole created from recycled fishing nets.
Bringing together two of the brand's recent technologies, the 3D-printed Ocean Plastic shoe midsole was unveiled in Paris earlier this week. The project is part of Adidas' continuing partnership with Parley for the Oceans, an initiative that encourages creatives to repurpose ocean waste and raise awareness of the growing issue. "Together with the network of Parley for the Oceans we have started taking action and creating new sustainable materials and innovations for athletes," said Adidas executive board member Eric Liedtke.
"The 3D-printed Ocean Plastic shoe midsole stands for how we can set new industry standards," said Liedtke, who previously told Dezeen that the sports brand was planning to conquer the American market using design. Ocean plastic has proven to be this year's breakthrough material. RealDoll is working on a sex robot that uses virtual reality. 3RDi is the headband that records everything you do. Remember Google Glass?
Just about, right? The doomed wearable tech suffered an inauspicious launch and was axed earlier this year, although Google Glass 2 is in the works.