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Design changes: water transportation made easier
I present to you the Q Drum, a simple example of how design can positively change how we interact with the world.
“The Q Drum eases the task of fetching water for peoples in developing nations. Climate change has required a countless number of people all around the world to travel greater distances to retrieve water for everyday use. The Q Drum allows a child to pull the full capacity of 50 liters of water over flat terrain with comparative ease.”
3 comments. Posted by tanner in innovation, social change on 30 September 2008.
Muxtape is back, with a new focus
Muxtape, the ridiculously simple playlist hosting service, mysteriously disappeared a couple of weeks ago, citing “a problem with the RIAA”. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in experimentation, innovation, interwebs, issue 1, music on 29 September 2008.
A List Apart, for people who make websites, is slowly changing course. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in innovation, interwebs on 19 September 2008.
This might seem a bit off topic from our general fare, but I am filing this under “industrial design” or “design for the greater good” or something.
I found this article being talked about when browsing around one of the photography blogs I read (nsfw) and I thought it was an interesting product: a female condom with inner barbs as a rape prevention/deterrent device
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1 comment. Posted by md in industrial design, innovation, opinion, social change on 21 August 2008.
Rejecting the familiar with Intel’s Digital Home Initiatives team
Since I moved to Arizona four years ago, I’ve been working tirelessly for the man, specifically designing web sites and other digital miscellanea. Tired of the same old song and dance, I set out to spend my summer working for as small a firm as possible, exclusively in print.
Its funny how often I am reminded; life cannot be planned.
Intel, for those of you in the dark, is the world’s largest semiconductor company and employs nearly 90,000 worldwide. They invented the x86 series of microprocessors, or for the technophobes, the brains that power most personal computers. Read more. →
2 comments. Posted by tanner in conceptual, experimentation, innovation, writing on 14 August 2008.
Theo Jansen, “we have a new wheel.”
“5,000 years after the invention of the wheel, we have a new wheel.” Read more. →
3 comments. Posted by tanner in experimentation, innovation, motion on 13 August 2008.
