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Tech NewsDesignDesigning Future Objects for the Home with Extrapolation Factory
The New York-based design duo behind Extrapolation Factory hosted a pop-up workshop yesterday afternoon in our own pop-up space here—everything popping up!— at the Gizmodo Home of the Future in New York City, where a group of twenty or so participants put together visions of the domestic objects of tomorrow. The design process itself was … Continued
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Tech NewsListen to the Appliances of the Future
Last week, in collaboration with Disquiet, we turned our ears to the future of the domestic environment, tuning into the speculative sounds of the appliances of the future. The results, here on our last day of the Home of the Future, are worth a listen as you tour the home either virtually or in person. … Continued
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Compare Your Hop Tech 431 Tasting Notes Here
For those of you lucky enough to try a glass of Hop Tech 431, the IPA of the future brewed by Sixpoint for Gizmodo’s Home of the Future, you’ll probably want to share some tasting notes. After all, it uses a brand new hop called HBC 431—so experimental, it doesn’t even have a real name … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Algorithms at the Heart of the New September 11 Memorial Museum
The National September 11 Memorial Museum opens to the public tomorrow here in New York City after more than a decade of complications, and amidst not always civil disagreements over what the museum should be in the first place—what its narrative intentions might be and whether or not it could ever be possible to achieve … Continued
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Stop In For A Reader Happy Hour At The Gizmodo Home of the Future
Stop by the Home of the Future from 5-7pm on Tuesday, May 20th, for a pint of Hop Tech 431, our collaborative futurist IPA brewed with the mad scientists at Sixpoint. Taste the experimental hop known only as HBC 431 with the Gizmodo crew and get a glimpse of where the flavor profile of American … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
3D-Printed Electric Water Kettle Inspired by Nautilus Shells
The nested chambers seen inside this prototype electric water kettle by designer Guillian Graves are 3D-printed, their geometry inspired by nautilus shells—giving the project its name, Nautile. The designer’s intent was to create an appliance that would not only be beautiful in any room you find it in, but that would be energy efficient in … Continued
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Today marks the first day of service for Denver’s brand new downtown bus and rail concourse built in front of the old Beaux Arts Union Station. The concourse officially opened to public view on Friday in a ceremony featuring U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx. Designed by SOM, the station is part of a much … Continued
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A Glimpse Of How We’ll Use Our Land In 2051
It’s the year 2051. Welcome to a view of the American landscape. Urban areas have swollen with people. Range and pasturelands have shrunk. There’s a bit more forest than there was back in 2014, a result of economic incentives driving more timber production. These are a few of the predictions of a new study on … Continued
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What Will the Appliances of the Future Sound Like?
It’s the year 2044—what does your kitchen sound like? What about your power supply? How about the laundry room, or even your new, high-tech burglar alarm? Disquiet, Gizmodo’s subdomain of all things sonic and ambient, is challenging its readers to come up with a speculative soundtrack for the home of the future—or, more specifically, for … Continued
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Tech NewsSee Your City Like a Hazy Point Cloud from Another Dimension
We saw last month that data sets hidden in Google Street View can be extracted to create immersive 3D point clouds that make every city look like a holograph. Inspired by that work—by designer Gonzalez Vivo—Callum Prentice has mocked up an interactive version, a Google Street View search that shows you any available address as … Continued
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Tech NewsFlying 3D Printers Could Help Seal Off Nuclear Waste
A quadcopter outfitted with an on-board 3D printer could be used to seal off and transport nuclear waste, or even to build structures in the middle of nowhere, according to its inventor, Mirko Kovac of Imperial College London. “In effect, it’s the world’s first flying 3D printer,” New Scientist writes. “One day such drones might … Continued
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Tech NewsTrick Your Boss Into Thinking Your Computer’s Still Busy
We’ve seen prank screensavers and even fake viruses before, but this one, specifically aimed at image professionals, makes your boss think your computer is bogged down, plugging away at rendering… who knows what, but it must be huge. And it just might take all day. Corporate Avoidance “works by loading screenshots and animated gifs to … Continued
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Tech NewsThis 3D Motion Simulator Is Powered By People
Haptic Turk is a prototype game that uses your friends as virtual robots to do immersive motion simulation at home. The research project from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany demoed a flight simulator variant at CHI2014 last week: the player wears 3D goggles and lies in two slings held by four friends—the “human actuators” … Continued
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How Location Scouts Find The Places That Look Like Somewhere Else
For filmmakers, Los Angeles is basically infinite. It is a mega-city that contains every other city within it—indeed, seemingly every other Earthly landscape is hidden somewhere in plain sight—whether it’s a street that looks like Manhattan or a county park that literally looks like another world. In Los Angeles, something as simple as an empty … Continued
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Navigate by Barcode and Never Get Lost Again
Libraries have terrible maps; supermarkets and department stores have bad signage; all of them have a built-in system for navigation that we don’t use: barcodes. That’s the argument of researchers Simon Robinson, Jennifer Pearson, and Matt Jones from the Future Interaction Technology Lab at Swansea University. They’ve come up with a way to use barcodes … Continued
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Your Behavior In This Toilet Is Being Recorded For Analysis
Attendees at a Human-Computer Interaction conference in Toronto earlier this week found toilets that claimed to analyze each “deposit” and post it online. Don’t like that idea? Then go somewhere else. Quantified Toilets was perpetuated by folks at the Critical Making Hackathon, but it wasn’t really an example of critical making—it was critical faking. The … Continued
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Shoot Electricity From Your Skull With These Great Silk Screen Prints
These gorgeous silk screen prints by London-based tattoo artist Deno depict bold hieroglyphic towers of electrical energy and human body parts, like black & white totem poles from a future skull cult, some New School universe of pyramids and castles where stairways coil up and over power lines and stars threaten to float away in … Continued
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Using Plastic Surgery To Keep Astronauts Human On Long Space Missions
A brief exchange in the back of last week’s issue of New Scientist asks: “I understand that the lines and sagging skin we acquire as we age are due to the sun and gravity. If I lived in a space station in zero or microgravity away from the sun, would I stay looking young?” A … Continued
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