optipaint

There’s a wonderful air of “mad inventor” around Richard Greene, founder of Light Strokes, a small San Rafael, California-based company.

Recently, the former street artist, MIT graduate, museum exhibit developer, and director of engineering for the MOTO product development group, rolled all that knowledge and experience into a radical new digital painting system that lets artists paint with real brushes. The product, OptiPaint, debuted at Photoshop World, being held in Las Vegas...

studio gobelins

Sum sweet looking animations going on over at the french side...

issey miyake vakio watch

In the Finnish language 'vakio' means 'constant, standard'. The VAKIO's innovative design concept is based on Northern European industrial design with an orientation toward "visual beauty in a design you will love forever"... in others words, wayyy sexy... checkit...

cutting scale

This one's for all you foodies out there... this design concept by Jess Griffin and Jim Termeer is a cutting board with an embedded scale in a circular area on its right half, telling you the exact weight of those ingredients you're about to place into your recipe or on your plate. The 10"x15" cutting board is designed to use electronic ink to display weight, with embedded sensor grids underneath the surface to determine the downward force of objects placed on it.

You're gonna havta wait a bit till you can buy it though... the technology to build the thing is still between one and five years away. The electronic ink display technology will be possible between one and five years from now, the low-current photovoltaics specified as its power source will be practical in one to three years, and the embedded sensor grids are also one to three years away.

Hmmm... I'd cop me one of those, but I hope when they do manufacture it, they make the cutting area a bit larger because as it stands, it looks a bit too small for any serious dicin'...

curse of the golden flower vs tenacious d!

Yang Zhimou is at it again... looks like a gorgeous epic. Movies like this can only be made in China... right now it's a golden moment where they have the technical expertise and an abundance of cheap labour and craft... this window of opportunity probably will last for just another 10-15 years. You see creatives of all kinds taking advantage of this now... like architect Paul Young and his iconic buildings...

And... it had to happen... a Tenacious D movie... The Pick Of Destiny!...