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Lockitron
Any smartphone can use Lockitron through its intuitive two-button app. With Lockitron you can instantly share access with your family and friends by entering their email address or phone number. Lockitron connects to the Internet thanks to built-in WiFi.
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Ferrari Dino 246GTS Targa
With the sales of the Dino 246 GT stable, Ferrari looked to increase its popularity still further by introducing an open version. The 246 GTS made its debut at the 1972 Geneva Motor Show and reactions were immediately very positive. The styling retained the individual, attractive lines of the 264 GT, with the added advantage of a practical targa top for open-air driving. The car’s success is borne out by production figures: of the approximately 4,000 246 GTs built, 1200 were the targa version.
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Gianfranco Zaccai: Great food should be like great design
About Why Design
At Herman Miller design is the language we use to ask questions and seek answers to the problems our customers face. The design process is a journey into the unknown—or as George Nelson once quipped, “I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were.” Before we decide what we do and how we do it, we like to begin by asking the question “Why?” In Why Design, a new video series, we explore the world through the eyes of our designers, and share something of why we value their point of view.
Gianfranco Zaccai
Gianfranco Zaccai enjoys a design problem and a good meal with equal gusto. Born in Italy, Gianfranco co-founded Continuum, the Boston design firm in 1983. He has designed medical equipment, consumer goods, and retail environments. His passion for research led to the innovative and award-winning Compass system for Herman Miller Healthcare in 2011.
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Inside The Brooklyn Nets’ Barclays Center
Nilay Patel joins SB Nation’s Amy K. Nelson to take a look around Brooklyn’s new insanely high-tech stadium, The Barclays Center.
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Triumph Desert by Drags and Racing
If it wasn’t for the modern engine under the gas tank, the Triumph Desert motorcycle by Drags and Racing would appear to come right out of World War II. This custom build on the Triumph Scrambler frame mixes a vintage aesthetic with modern muscle. It appears both earthy and aggressive, sporting a fatigue-colored paint job and a metal cage over the headlight. Whether you’re heading out on a road trip or across town, you’ll be turning heads from old and young motorcycle enthusiasts alike.
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By Nordvik Leather USB
This piece of unique leather USB is one of the Scandinavian USB collection, which is created by Scandinavian designer company By Nordvik.
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The Audi Quattro Slot Car Experience
Handcrafted 20 ft x 7 ft custom-track environment
Creating a raceway of this size, scope, and detail takes more than a walk to the corner hobby store. So we commissioned the world-renowned track builders from Slot Mods USA to handcraft the course.
Scale model Audi A4 slot-car body and four-wheel drive chassis
Every detail matters. So when model-year-accurate Audi A4 slot cars couldn’t be sourced, we simply made them from scratch. An industrial laser scanner was used to generate the digital outline, then body shells were created on a 3D printer and paired with separately sourced four-wheel-drive slot car chassis.
Mimicking quattro®’s cornering capabilities
By their very nature, slot cars are designed to come off the track. The Audi advanced quattro® all-wheel-drive system on the other hand, is specifically designed to help you do just the opposite. To reproduce the Audi A4 handling characteristics in a slot car, we spent hours testing and custom tuning the traction magnets on each vehicle – while still leaving enough play for racing to remain competitive.
Custom in-car cameras, housing and transmitter
Most slot car POV video footage is shot using a mountable camera strapped to the roof of the car. Not good enough for Audi. So we adapted miniature spy cams to fit inside the car, with custom circuitry to wirelessly transmit the live stream. A custom housing was also built into the 3D printed body shell to help minimize camera shake and vibration.
First of its kind: iPad slot-car controller
In a typical slot-car setup, drivers use a handheld resistor to modulate voltage to the track and, in turn, the speed of the slot car. This nearly 100-year-old system forces the driver to race from a bird’s-eye view trackside, instead of the driver’s seat where they should be. To change this, we developed a custom iPad app to pair with our in-car cameras – putting the driver right in the cockpit for the first time ever. And instead of the traditional electric controller, a digital thumb control interface was created to regulate acceleration and deceleration.
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Belkin WeMo Home Automation Switch for your Phone
Belkin’s WeMo Switch($50) is an app-controlled device works with your home’s wi-fi to give your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch the ability to turn on or off anything that plugs in. And the app also allows for you to schedule devices on or off time. Operates over Wi-Fi and mobile internet, at home and away.
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LifeStraw Personal Water Filter
The LifeStraw personal water filter, designed by Vestergaard Frandsen, allows users to drink water safely from contaminated water sources. LifeStraw is ideal for campers, travelers and hikers who may be drinking from rivers or lakes and are unsure of the water safety. It is the most advanced personal water filter available today. LifeStraw surpasses EPA guidelines for E. coli, Giardia, and Cryptosporidium oocysts, rigorous standards for water filtration.
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New MySpace Teaser
Fifteen months after its acquisition by Specific Media, a preview of MySpace’s new makeover has been unveiled by Justin Timberlake — who took an ownership stake in the social network. The video doesn’t go into a lot of detail, but it hints at:
- Users log in via Facebook or Twitter and the option to bring photos or other information with them.
- Status updates look similar to the mobile app Path, with photos largely displayed and user comments showing up underneath.
- The music component including ways to browse albums, find popular songs and artists and more.
It also points to a new MySpace URL, New.MySpace.com, which enables users to give their email address for an invite to the new service. It has yet to be seen if MySpace is building its own music service or if will partner with streaming services such as Spotify, Rdio or Rhapsody.
I know a lot of people will be rolling there eyes about the news and I’m not sure if I can handle another social media platform to update and maintain but I’m excited to see what they can offer and hope it does offer something of need.
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The all-new Apple EarPods
A breakthrough for ears everywhere, Apple EarPods look unlike anything you’ve ever seen, and sound unlike anything you’ve ever heard. You’ll be blown away by the thought that has gone into this design after watching the video overview.
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Hanwell Active Loudspeaker by Marshall Amps
The latest to hit the retail scene from the brand founded by the late Jim Marshall is this Hanwell Loudspeaker celebrating the brand’s 50 year anniversary. Built to look like a smaller version of their well known amps, this small cabinet sports dual long-throw woofers to produce super lows along with hi-fi tweeters which help with sharp extended highs. The Marshall speaker will find itself right at home in dorm rooms, as the size makes it extremely portable. As of right now, there is no official price tag for the device, but we expect it to be selling for a hundred dollars when it lands at the official Marshall website.
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Frank Gehry and Mark Zuckerberg Collaborate On Facebook Headquarters
Gehry Partners has been commissioned to create the complete “campus” design of the 22 acre headquarters and while it’s in its beginning stages. The building scope itself will take up 10 of the acres, with the 435,000 square feet of interior space being used for open collaboration and a freestyle “warehouse” style approach to work stations to maximize flexibility. As of now, construction is set to begin in 2013. Stay tuned for more information as the details become more concrete.
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Harman Kardon’s Iconic Soundsticks Go Wireless
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Designed by Jonny Ive himself, the first Soundsticks were inducted into MoMA’s permanent collection. And now, they’ve gone wireless. For the most part, the speakers are the same: 10 watts in each satellite and 20 watts going into the subwoofer. But now it has Bluetooth baked in, and though that may not offer quite the same audio fidelity as a wired connection, it does mean a cleaner appearance for those more concerned with aesthetics. But that convenience comes at an added cost. Instead of the $200 pricetag of the Soundsticks III (which can be had even cheaper on the street), expect to pay $230.
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Apple Confirms September 12 iPhone 5 Launch Event
Apple has officially announced that the iPhone 5 will be unveiled at a special event on September 12. uspected features include a thinner, taller iPhone with a 4-inch display – which abandons the 4:3 aspect ratio for one more like an HDTV. Rumors suggest Apple will start taking iPhone 5 pre-orders after the event wraps up – offering consumers the chance to lock in a release day delivery. While Apple is not confirming this, rumors point to a September 21 iPhone 5 release date.
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Microsoft Unveils a New Look
It’s been 25 years since we’ve updated the Microsoft logo and now is the perfect time for a change. This is an incredibly exciting year for Microsoft as we prepare to release new versions of nearly all of our products. From Windows 8 to Windows Phone 8 to Xbox services to the next version of Office, you will see a common look and feel across these products providing a familiar and seamless experience on PCs, phones, tablets and TVs. This wave of new releases is not only a reimagining of our most popular products, but also represents a new era for Microsoft, so our logo should evolve to visually accentuate this new beginning.
The Microsoft brand is about much more than logos or product names. We are lucky to play a role in the lives of more than a billion people every day. The ways people experience our products are our most important “brand impressions”. That’s why the new Microsoft logo takes its inspiration from our product design principles while drawing upon the heritage of our brand values, fonts and colors.
The logo has two components: the logotype and the symbol. For the logotype, we are using the Segoe font which is the same font we use in our products as well as our marketing communications. The symbol is important in a world of digital motion (as demonstrated in the video above.) The symbol’s squares of color are intended to express the company’s diverse portfolio of products.
Starting today, you’ll see the new Microsoft logo being used prominently. It will be used on Microsoft.com – the 10th most visited website in the world. It is in three of our Microsoft retail stores today (Boston, Seattle’s University Village and Bellevue, Wash.) and will shine brightly in all our stores over the next few months. It will sign off all of our television ads globally. And it will support our products across various forms of marketing. Fully implementing a change like this takes time, so there may be other instances where you will see the old logo being used for some time.
We’re excited about the new logo, but more importantly about this new era in which we’re reimagining how our products can help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
Posted by Jeff Hansen
General Manager, Brand Strategy, Microsoft
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Bentley Announces Mulsanne Convertible Concept
The Mulsanne Convertible Concept is set to be the planet’s “most elegant and sophisticated convertible,” the Mulsanne Convertible Concept fuses the sportiness of a drop-top with the elegance of the original handmade coach for the ultimate modern take on the tourers of the early 1900s. According to Bentley chairman and Chief Executive Wolfgang Durheimer, “The modern, luxurious, high-tech Mulsanne saloon provides a perfect foundation on which to create the world’s most elegant convertible. The Convertible Concept will extend the appeal of the Mulsanne family, while enhancing the profile of the Bentley brand, particularly in new and emerging markets.” Currently existing only on paper.
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UNIQLO Wake Up App.
The UNIQLO Wake-Up app, available for the iPhone and Android, is a pleasant wake-up “alarm” with tone and music set by Cornelius (‘Respect is Burning Tour’ with Daft Punk) and Yoko Kanno – play the video below for a sense of it. As well, alongside, a soft spoken voice that tells you how the day will look weather-wise.
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MC2000 DJ Controller
Denon has just released the MC2000 DJ controller. Specifically designed for Serato’s DJ Intro mixing software this entry-level device comes along with a plug and play USB device and a copy of the Serato software of course. The MC2000 features a basic two-channel mixer between the wheels, all the usual buttons for hot-cues and loops, the audio interface is built-in for easy use. The Denon MC2000 is available from October.
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Lamborghini Contach
Only 3 years after Bertone released the first wedge-shaped Alfa Romeo Carabo concept, Lamborghini got their turn with the Countach in 1971. Among all the prototypes with this universal shape, Lamborghini became the most prolific when the car was put into production in 1976. The car was named after it’s 5000-litre V12 which stood for Longitudinale Posteriore 5000.Marcello Gandini, who had shaped both the Miura and Espada was responsible for the Countach design. The low profile wasn’t too far off his Lancia Stratos 0 from just a year earlier, and Lamborghini remained much more true to the Bertone concept than Lancia ever did. Maybe that’s why the Lamborghini became so much more of a icon than the Lancia.Unique traits of the concept included forward-swinging doors from the Carabo and a periscope rear view mirror, both which were retained for production.Paolo Stanzani had the task of making a usable supercar underneath Marcello Gandini’s impossibly low design. He elected to run the gearbox forward of the engine to provide direct gear changes. This raised the height of the engine for the driveline, but made the Countach look even more purposeful with its muscular rear stance.Initially a fully-digital instrumentation system was fitted that was later replaced by analogue units so Bob Wallace could test the car. Afterward the car led a hard life and was highly modified during testing to help with production development. At met a final fate with a barrier at MIRA in Britain which destroyed the car completely.
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