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Jag and Land Rover worked with four suppliers to create the four-walled studio. Projecting power will come from eight Sony SRX-S105 projectors, each one of them as powerful as the best cinema-standard projector and each one having four times the resolution of HD. With that kind of capability, designers — wearing 3-D glasses — will be looking at photorealistic representations of their creations.
I just returned yesterday from Uruguay and Argentina. Flickr gallery soon. Meanwhile this was the view from Punta Gorda on our last day there.
Foodfordesign has great lab projects for making some of those crazy molecular gastronomic creations like glass-like sugar creations and juice roe – check it out:
Photo Credit: Michael O’Boyle. See this and other amazing food photographs at the Chicken Fried Gourmet
Foodpairing is a site that shows which foods’ flavor components match with each other. Check it out:
This is the original map of the Cholera Outbreak of 1854 as drawn by John Snow. I just finished reading The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson and the way he describes John Snow as being a revolutionary individual in the science of epidemiology made me want to investigate the original London 1854 Cholera outbreak map even further. Evidently what made Snow so unique during the outbreak of 1854 was his ability to focus on the tiniest of details (like the crack in the cesspool of 40 Broad St.) and then zoom way out to see macro trends like who was going where for their water. Aside from helping to end one of the deadliest outbreaks in a dense urban environment, he also began modern medical cartography (and data-viz) as we know it – overlaying different sets of data over the same map to spot trends.
What makes this map so special is that at the time it was drawn, the vast majority of people thought Cholera was transmitted by miasma – or foul air. The scattered dots (Cholera deaths) alone would seem to support this theory, but by simply adding the proximity to water pumps and then overlapping the streets to show how people traveled (on foot), one can clearly see that the Broad Street pump (marked with an “X” in the center of lots of the dots) might have had something to do with the outbreak. Its a swarm map and the pump is at the center.
I never thought that hoverboard from Back to the Future II would ever get knocked off my #1 Christmas item spot, but I guess we all have to grow up at some point and wish for a Humanoid Robot exoskeleton. Sarcos Robotics has an exoskeleton developed for the US Army that boosts human strength over 10-fold while allowing the wearer complete mobility. Check it out:
The craziest thing about this video comes at the end when they start talking about how you can step out of your exoskeleton and it becomes an autonomous robot performing tasks while the wearer goes off and does something else. Imagine an exoskeleton ghostworld (the robot is the body and the wearer is human spirit) – late at night the ghosts of you are out getting the mundane tasks done (dropping off laundry in your stead, chopping wood, delivering a package across town) while you’re at home asleep or playing with your kids – or is that more like the Sprint commercial – I don’t know.
