YOU ALL! it is 9-9-9 today…… weird right! the 999 prophecies….. there is a video but that is boring as heck… i thought someone would create some random and neat of a video for this day, but i guess not. but yeah… 999!
Tag archives: UBER
Uber-Over thinking
21Aug09Yeah i tend to overthink and yeah i tend to uber think. below is what happens by another person’s opinion when you overthink:
Here are some reasons why I believe “overthinking” is the enemy:
1. Complicates projects
2. Can waste valuable time
3. It will shut you down
4. It makes it more complicated than it really is
5. When you overthink, you usually think yourself right out of the answer
6. With overthinking, comes less action
7. It can equal fear of failure
For myself, i have a tendency to UBER think. That is purposely overthinking the problem to forecast new potential problems and then back track myself to its simplest form/usablity/definition — cutting and editing the complexity throughout the process.
It is a way for a creativity mindset to push the boundaries and say to oneself why i remove certain elements of the project but left other elements intact for meaningful value. (elements could also be imply as the “features” to the product/service/interface of the design.) I tend to speak/write abstractly because it is not just about design but also when i cook, build, fix, drive, etc – other actions within my life.
yeah, i need to think more about UBER think and what it means for me, basically i just thought of the term right now when reading this blog of overthinking…..
Left+Right thinking table!
30Jul09Designed by Denmark-based Line Depping, Borrod table is a project playing with order and disorder. An idea to tidy your working desk in an instant.
via Design Year Book.
Bubble Room
20May09okay… should i reconsider my career as a product designer? ….[thinking]…. nah… but it is tempting.
The Berlin based interdisciplinary collective raumlabor was founded in 1999 and is focused on visionary projects in urban and architectural contexts.
Their latest project Spacebuster is a mobile inflatable structure – a portable, expandable pavilion which is mounted on a van and provided place to a 10-day programme of lectures, workshops, screenings and performances, organised by the New York based gallery Storefront.
why i love abstract architecture
20May09
Algae…BioFuel…What are the possiblities?
12May09
There are some signs that the algae-based fuel industry might be ready to bloom.
One of the nascent industry’s biggest and most well-heeled players, Sapphire Energy, announced last week that it would be producing 1 million gallons of diesel and jet fuel a year by 2011, double its initial estimates.
The La Jolla, Calif.-based company – with big-name backers like Bill Gates and the Rockefeller family – says it will be producing more than 100 million gallons a year by 2018 and 1 billion gallons a year by 2020 – enough to meet almost 3 percent of the U.S. renewable fuel standard RFS of 36 billion gallons.
But there’s a hitch: Federal law makes no room for algae-based fuel in the RFS. The 2007 energy law caps corn ethanol production at 15 billion gallons a year by 2015 and has the remaining 21 billion gallons of renewable fuels coming from advanced biofuels, including 17 billion gallons from cellulosic biofuels and biodiesel.
via Is Algae the Biofuel of the Future?: Scientific American.
Color E-Paper is slowly ever so slowly happening
08May09Technology Review: Color E-Paper That Rivals the Real Thing.
Despite Amazon’s promise to reinvent the newspaper and magazine industry with its new, large-screen Kindle DX electronic reader, some people may be reluctant to embrace the technology until full-color displays are possible. A new approach developed by Philips now offers fresh hope for color e-paper displays that are so bright and clear that even traditional liquid crystal displays (LCDs) will pale in comparison.
According to Kars-Michiel Lenssen, who headed the work at Philips Research, based in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, the new approach has the potential to create color images that are three times brighter than displays that use color filters, including LCDs. “This is the closest an electronic-paper technology ever got to printed paper,” he says.
Color displays normally require four subpixels–red, green, blue, and white–to create each full-color pixel. “That costs you in terms of resolution,” says Pieter van Lieshout, head of product research and development for Polymer Vision, which was spun off from Philips Electronics three years ago to develop flexible electronic-paper displays.
Design Concepts 2006 to now overview
06May09must see blog someone did to collect all the future concepts (almost all) involving tech and transport. link at the bottom
100 Amazing Futuristic Design Concepts We Wish Were Real | Webdesigner Depot.
Nano styling
05May09old news recycled… for those that has not seen…
Macbook Nano concept. back in 2008. It is getting to be a bit star trekkie… i ain’t complaining, i grew up on that show.
via LINK
Cell-o-redito debate
05May09Is this idea new or old? Five years working within a team for intel’s future tech trends we predicted that phones should have credit card info…and of course the big debate is how dangerous to put everything in one basket.
Already there are countries (finland + Japan) that allow you to wave your phone to pay for food and transportation. but in America our major fault is security. The lawsuit of misplace phones+devices that has your information in it. And worst the psychology of your mind to perceive money from a phone verses a card. one of the many reasons why people are in debt with their credit card. the weight and feeling of giving cash leaves a higher impact of you spending your hard earn money than handing a weightless piece of plastic that never change in weight or size when you earn or lose money.
but overall this is a new avenue of wireless currency that will not replace credit cards or cash but compliment it for improving local business or local convenience like parking meters. I have not read it but heard about the book Everyware by Adam Greenfield which goes into further exploration into this subject.
so in reminder: “a great idea is simply an idea on paper… innovation is not just about ideas but the ability to turn great ideas into reality… ”
via yankodesign
The device in size of a credit card 54×85,6 mm will replace all those. Moreover it can work as:
- Video phone. Before making a call you can choose an operator of a mobile communication.
- All credit and discount cards that you have. The built in program will prompt an optimum variant for discounts at the given payment place.
- The remote control for any device. It can simultaneously display a teleschedule and recommendations of your favourite site.
- Keys from doors of houses and cars you have an authorization to.
- GPS-system that can automatically upload aerial photos from the Internet.
- Library, video- and music shop. You can read, listen to and watch all that at your choice. Go to a public online library or buy all that you want in any shop of the world.
- Gaming device with support of network gaming (remember that you have a GPS and the virtual reality becomes quite real).
- Even your computer that works with any operational system that is being uploaded through the Internet.
For any actions connected with safety (payment, opening of a door, …) the device authorizes you by reading your fingerprints.
Designer: Dima Komissarov
