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    Escape From the Future: Architecture, Language, and the Computational Turn

    Figure 4.pngThe creators of this online journal and forum controversially argue that computation will engender the final stage of development in the relationship between architecture and computers by ...

    Process/Drawing

    ReasThumb.jpgWriting software is at the core of Casey Reas’s artistic practice. The digital is his medium of choice rather than a means of manipulation. He reflects on ...

    Metaphysics of Genetic Architecture and Computation

    Thumb copy.jpgWith the dissolution of the last utopian project of Man in the name of Communism, the great spectre that once haunted Europe and the rest of the ...

    Nothing Is Random: Automason Ver 2.0

    Figure 1.jpg While computers have dramatically changed the way architects design, construction in the US and around the world is still dependent on ...

    Dazzle Topologies

    EVAN copy.jpg One of the great lessons of the 20th Century that our particular generation of architects has inherited is our appreciation of the infra-thin scale: the primal ...

    Transmitting Iconography

    GRAND2cropb copy.jpg Contemporary telecommunication and computer technologies have fundamentally changed the relationship between sign and space, iconography and matter. While Venturi’s model for the decorated shed grew out ...

    Tectonics, Economics and the Reconfiguration of Practice: The Case for Process Change by Digital Means

    sheldon-thumb.jpgThe current programming culture in architecture could all too easily be written off as a youthful, geeky obsession with the algorithmic and the parametric among nascent practitioners, who ...

    Bodies Unfolding

    Bill and Lila Thumb copy.jpgAfter seeing Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World Map, a map projected on a flattened isohedron, we began working on the idea of using computer ...

    Cultural Concerns in Computational Architecture

    perkins G. Holmes Perkins, 1904-2004 In September of 2004 I attended two events that reflect on each other. One was the Non-Standard Praxis conference held at MIT. The ...

    Genetic Architecture

    Genetic Architecture With the dissolution of the last utopian project of Man in the name of Communism, thegreat specter that once haunted Europe and the rest of the world has all but ...

    Automason Version 1.0

    Contemporary architects are judged as much by their buildings as they are by the sophistication of the techniques used in design and construction. A certain fascination with technology is natural ...

    Genomic Architecture

    genomic1.gifGenomic architecture is based on the manipulation of the architectural genome. Like its biological counterpart, this genome is universal and encompasses all architecture — past, present and future. ...
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iPhone Finally Free

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

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iphone.unlock.no has the simplest, most straight forward instructions. It simply works (took about 15mins). iPhone, welcome to T-Mobile. more at hackint0sh

Haptic Clock

Monday, May 28th, 2007

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The Haptic Clock is a small clock program for Java powered mobile phones. The clock conveys time through a sequence of vibrations so you never have to pull the phone out of your pocket to tell time.  Perfect for meetings, lazy people, and people who trying to break the addiction of pulling out their cell phone to check the time.

Sensitive Floor

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

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SENSITIVE.FLOOR is a new interactive video projection floor by iO also distributed in the Sensitive Space System by 3M.

VeinViewer

Monday, May 1st, 2006

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VeinViewer™ by Luminetx projects a clear real-time image of your subcutaneous vasculature.

via Medgadget

Monome

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

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Monome is Brian Crabtree’s simple, highly adaptable, interface for things you haven’t even thought of yet. [video]

via Pixelsumo

Mobile Living

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

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Presented in the spectacular 18,000 sf Skylight Studios Gallery, Soho, NYC, Mobile Living will exhibit the unparalleled advancements in our society that have manifested our modern nomadic lifestyle. . . Mixing design and technology this will be a groundbreaking, curated presentation, running concurrently with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), and DesignDowntown in New York City, May 2006. Mobile Homes, Mobile Phones, Mobile computing, Automobiles, Motor homes, indoor and outdoor furniture will all be topics in the show.

Tactile 3D : Your Desktop in 3D

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Tactile 3D is a user interface made to browse and organize all your existing files in 3D using shapes and sounds to identify folders and files on your hard drive. [free trial]

A Force More Powerful

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

A Force More Powerful is the first and only game to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods. Destined for use by activists and leaders of nonviolent resistance and opposition movements, the game will also educate the media and general public on the potential of nonviolent action and serve as a simulation tool for academic studies of nonviolent resistance.

via Z Partners

Selective Laser Melting : 3D Printing in Metal

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

MCP Group’s MCP Realizer takes 3D printing / rapid prototyping into the world of metals. MCP uses a technique called SLM (Selective Laser Melting) which uses ordinary metal powders (bronze, zinc, stainless steel, tool steel, titanium, cobalt-chrome alloys) and a laser to melt thin layers of geometry repeatedly to produce finished parts. more>

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Confederate Motorcycles

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Confederate Motorcycles | Beautiful.