YouTube video captureing the I&O Brush from the MIT Media Lab. The brush paints what it “sees”, the user touches it to something, an apple, a leopard print, a persons blinking eye, and as you paint on a surface, the brush leaves the image behind, down to texture and animation details.
It’s pretty sweet.
Sweet product designs based off icons!!! These designs are a lot of fun and if you go to designboom.com you can see a lot of different ones from various artists. The one below of the watch is from anddesign.jp and they have a lot of other fun designs at their site, too.
I was truly astonished to see someone read the time in a half a second while glancing at a watch like this. A friend of mine owns one and after coming across the site that sells them I am shocked to see how many different versions there are! The average price (in American money) would be about 60-200 depending on the watch. (I used yahoo’s currency converter to figure it out.)
The picture here shows just a few of their many designs. Check out the others here.
Clocky is an alarm clock designed to run away from you as soon as its alarm goes off. So, if your one of those people who tends to hit the snooze button 3 or 4 times in the morning, this might be a good option for you.
The creator of this wonderful product is a store called Nanda, owner Gauri Nanda, who not surprisingly was a graduate student of the MIT Media Lab. Now, I know I am not supposed to throw praises at MIT since I am an RIT native, but when one of its students creates a product like Clocky and gets tons of recognition (New York Times ‘Year In Ideas’ magazine, ID, inc, Lucky, Jay Leno, The Today Show) – she is quite worthy of an applause.
Nanda products are available in a quite a few locations, check it out.
(The picture is Clocky in action – compliments of Nanda).
