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Floating Jellyfish Robot Propels Itself Through the Air Using Self-Inversion

German automation company Festo has created an extraordinary helium-filled flying robot that propels itself through the air by repeatedly turning itself inside-out. The creation, known as the SmartInversion, moves like a jellyfish as its extremely lightweight body inverts itself with a rhythmic pulsating movement. Hit the jump to see it in action!

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Trip to MoMA – PS1

Trip to MoMA – PS1

So living in NYC gives you loads of opportunities to experience the arts. However, I am ofter too exhausted or busy to take advantage all that is available. This weekend my friend Emily & I had a nice brunch and visited MOMA – PS1. See our favorite exhibit above and read about it above.

Surasi Kusolwong

On view November 20, 2011—April 2, 2012

Surasi Kusolwong (Thai, b. 1965) makes installations and performances that reference consumer society and the economy. Through his participatory and interactive works the Bangkok-based artist encourages social interaction over economic exchange. His large-scale installation Golden Ghost (The Future Belongs To Ghosts) (2011), which was first presented in the Creative Time exhibition Living as Form, invites visitors to enter into the vast field of industrial thread waste to search for gold necklaces hidden in the piles of cotton. Visitors who are fortunate enough to find a necklace are welcome to keep it. The work suggests a sense of play in which visitors can climb the mounds of thread waste, comb through the material and explore. While the literal treasure hunt in a field of excess serves as a metaphor for consumption at the global and individual level, it also inverts standard systems of exchange—the expensive gold necklaces are not sold nor bartered, but generously given away.

Mobile Smart Phone Grocery Shopping in Subway Stations

Imagine waiting for the train while picking out your groceries from a display case filled with products identical in size, scale and color to really grocery store shelves. If the first round of the digital revolution was about making the real virtual, this time it is about making the virtual real again.

South Korean grocery chain Tesco was looking for a way to one-up their major competitor – impossible to do in terms of physical shops due to a lack of actual stores; hence, they turned toward the world wide web with a combination of mobile phone and QR code technologies.

Using smartphones, shoppers can browse the isles during time normally spent idle anyway on their way to or from work. Their purchased products are then delivered by the store, waiting for them when they get home and ready to be put right into the kitchen cabinets, refrigerator or freezer.

(via DORNOB)

The Internet of Things [Infographic]

The Internet of Things [Infographic]

Knowledge is power – the more we know the more we can grow as a people – like the first book publications it’ll be a little rocky and expensive but overtime will change for the better

(via The Internet of Things [Infographic])

MARS Turbine

MARS Turbine

This is why I can still believe in the future.

Wind energy in itself isn’t a novel concept, but the MARS Turbine (Maggen Air Rotor System) puts a new spin on conventional wind turbines with its Goodyear Blimp otherworldliness and innovative operating system.

Designer Fred Ferguson created MARS as an energy source in remote areas—like scientific expeditions to the Arctic—that need consistent power but lack resources to build a 200-foot tall wind turbine. Essentially a blimp covered in fins, Ferguson’s turbine flies 1,000 feet high, connecting to the ground with a tether that doubles as an energy conductor.

via(Cool Hunting)

Julia Yu TsaoGraduate Thesis Project

Julia Yu Tsao
Graduate Thesis Project, Fall 2009
Media Design Program, Art Center College of Design

juliatsao.com
cargocollective.com/juliatsao#263179/Curious-Displays

Animation in Maya, shadedbox.com.
Sound Design by Jason Chung, nosajthing.com.

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