This is the guy that won the Audi Tony Stark Innovation contest to promote the R8 and won $15,000 to further develop his idea. His incredible invention consists of a small computer, a pico projector and a camera, all packed into an angle-poise-style light that projects the internet onto the desk, wall or anything you point it at. The camera watches this image and can detect if you touch anything: you can type on a projected keyboard, for example. I’m still speechless by the sheer awesomeness of this. I’m gonna’ have to go lie down.
LuminAReyougottabekidding?!
July 14th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane BrunCategory: Not work,Uncategorized
Tags: Audi R&, Audi Tony Stark Innovation Contest, Creative, Design, Desk Lamp, Innovation, Iron Man
How hot is it?
July 14th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Category: Not work,Uncategorized
Tags: Design, Digital, LED, Outdoor, Weather report
I hope mine’s 64GB.
July 14th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Seeing as I’m getting wed in a few weeks, this little bit of cool caught my eye today and so I humbly share it with all of you.
A software engineer at Microsoft is getting married to a woman that doesn’t necessarily share his enthusiasm for gaming. But her love is such that she decided to celebrate her beau’s geekery by having a special wedding ring custom made for him with the inscription, “For a lifetime of memories.”
Lifetime of memories?? That’ll be the USB drive built into the ring then.
Ahhhhhh.
Category: Not work,Uncategorized
Tags: Design, Geeksville, USB drives, wedding rings
Mobile Advertising moves with the times…
July 5th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun…and it also now moves with you, whevever you may be.
When Apple does something, the company usually tries its damnedest to do it better than everyone else. Now, one could argue whether they actually manage this or not until the cows come home and trample all over the beautiful shiny Apple bits of kit, smashing them to smithereens (or any kind of ‘een’ for that matter) and causing untold havoc in your study as they get impatient waiting for the newest incarnation of Windows to load properly. But no once can deny that Apple take great care over their consumer offerings and do their best to outdo not only the competition but also themselves. From personal computing to digital music, they excel and see opportunity where others don’t.
And now advertising has been given an Apple make-over. Read all about it HERE.
Category: Not work,Uncategorized
Tags: Advertising, Apple iAd, Apple iPhone, Mobile advertising, Rich Media, Technology
Oh, the wonders of scrap.
June 30th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Sometimes you just have to sit back in wonder and wonder at how much wonder there is in the world. Only just the other day I was sitting at home wondering about how wonderful it would be to be able to put old plumbing to wonderous good use rather than just casting it aside and low and behold…
Category: Not work,Uncategorized
Tags: Design, Desk Lamps, Fun, Innovation, Recycling
Bland packaging is Dead & Buried.
April 21st, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
There’s nothing I like more than a nice bit of packaging design.
Okay, so that’s a complete lie. I love infinitely more things than nice packaging design; sweet n’ sour prawn balls, crispy chilli beef, prawn crackers, beer, horror movies, horror movies about killer sweet n’ sour prawns…you get the idea. But this bit of work for the totally incredible HBO series Six Feet Under really is quite stunning. Avoiding the usual cardboard DVD cases inside a larger cardboard case, the designers have instead opted for…ummm, well…?..okay, so it’s a load of cardboard DVD cases inside a larger cardboard case, but that’s not the point…
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Awesomeness, Design, Packaging
Dump the stupid old bag.
April 20th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Old bags…what a pain. What a waste of space. What a complete, utter annoyance they are. They’re everywhere for a start, getting under everyone’s feet, cluttering up the parks and the streets. They take forever to go away and even when they do, they clog up the earth for centuries.
And there’s millions of them…literally; millions and millions of the hateful things.
Well, PUMA are getting ready to do something about it and I for one am behind them 100% in getting ready to knock the old things on the head once and for all and make the world a cleaner and better place for all of us…
Category: Not work
Tags: Design, Environmental, Packaging, Utter Genius
Yes, it’s exactly what you think it looks like.
April 19th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane BrunCategory: Uncategorized
Tags: Fun, Plain Weird
IBM cruises a Sci-Fi wave of awesomeness.
April 12th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Okay…so this is pretty super-cool.
IBM are going all Sci-Fi with their new interactive billboard which they’re trialing as part of their Smarter Planet initiative (designed to make more efficient systems using the latest technology). The billboard changes its appearance based on what the person standing in front of it is wearing. It uses sensors and LEDs to dynamically update its color, urging the viewer to consider how technology could improve supply chain systems and retail experiences today.
So is this all just a great big multi-coloured nonsense or is there real merit in it?…
Category: Not work
Tags: Advertising, Animated Graphics, Digital, Outdoor, Sci-Fi
Use your iPhone smarter.
March 31st, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Things are constantly changing, evolving, being altered and messed with to create things that are as much new and exciting as they are ridiculous and pointless. Take the iPhone. We can all recall what life was like without one (at least I can) and how it has undoubtedly changed the face of mobile technology (and no, geeks, nothing running Windows 7 counts). Imagine then, taking this innovation and de-innovating it? Devolving it, taking it back more than a few steps in time and space to create a newly born functionality that surpasses the old functionality…in terms of functionality…
Category: Not work
Tags: Design, Fun, Innovation
Another reason why I love Apple.
March 25th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
I love Apple…unashamedly so.
Why? Oh…there’s sooooooo many reasons why, but high up on the list is the way that they think. Click here to discover news of a patent they’ve filed that just backs up my last comment and makes me wish that I’d only just heard about this after it had gone on sale…and not this early on in the game.
Category: Not work,Uncategorized
Tags: Awesomeness, Fun, Innovation
Water way, to think of the environment.
March 18th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
OK…sorry for the shameless Alan Partridge pun, but I couldn’t help it. Sue me…it’s been a long day.
Rightso, this is quite an exceptional idea and one that’s had me thinking of the possibilities most of the afternoon. I’m not gonna’ waffle on, I’ll let the cut & paste from Design Boom do that inside, but just think what the world would be like if every new building had this level of thought put into it?…
Category: Not work
Tags: Architecture, Awesomeness, Design, Environmental
Get your hands on a piece of design history.
February 23rd, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
What a beautiful idea this is. The Design Auction was set up by some tutors and students of Lincoln School of Art & Design back in 2007 as a way to make some cash for their third year graphic design end of year degree show. A few phone-calls and emails later and the great & good of the design world were offering them rare and beautiful bits and pieces of loveliness and gorgousnessness. It’s a simply brilliant idea, a great website and a showcase of some truly ground-breaking bits of design. So grab yer’ mouse, a cup of tea and a pack of Digestives and enjoy…
Category: Fun,Not work
Tags: Creative, Design
Is the market ready for…
February 10th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
If there’s one thing I hate more than anything else (well, that’s not strictly true as I hate most things, but y’get what I mean) it’s animals in clothing. For me, there’s just no need to dress your pet up like a fool; cats in hats, dogs in coats, canary’s in toupees and fake beak hair…madness. If the good Lord had intended Spot to wear a Hugo Boss suit he’d have made Hugo Boss a dog and canines would rule the world in an horrific re-visiting of Planet of the Apes, where over-sized poodles lead mangy human beings around parks on the end of twine and wait patiently while the whimpering homo-sapiens defecate in all the wrong places…
Category: Fun,Not work
Tags: Creepy




