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See-Through, Touch-Screen Tablet Renders Interiors in 3D Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:00 AM PDT [ Filed under More & in the Gadgets & Tech category ] It has taken from hundreds to thousands of years for architects and designers to perfect the art of translating from two-dimensional images to the three-dimensional world and back again. Augmented-reality technologies like this, however, promise new quantum leaps in matters of months. A see-through touch screen will allow users of the (still pre-production) IRIS Tablet to overlay physical spaces with digital renderings ranging from plans and sections to highlighted perspectives, all paired for easy identification of locations and angles in multiple dimensions. A combination of geo-positioning and pattern recognition help the device recognize its own stance within a structure, projecting too-be-added components onto the screen for an up-close-and-personal look at proposed renovations and additions. Scanning (via a side-to-side movable slider) and editing images (right on the clear touch screen) and text up close are possibilities, too, as are various way-finding techniques that go a step beyond realtime 2D maps already widely available. The see-through surface is more than a transparent window, it is a basis for modeling, exploring and interacting with intangible ideas and unrealized futures. Keep Going - Check out this Great Related Dornob Article: High-Tech Mirror: Touch-Screen Panel MP3 Player & Radio Transparent TV: Sleek & Clean See-Through Screen Design [ Filed under More & in the Gadgets & Tech category ] [ Dornob | Archives | Categories | Privacy | TOS ]

DIY Geodesic Disco-Ball Lamp from Upcycled Drink Boxes Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:00 PM PDT [ Filed under Lamps & Lights & in the Furnishings category ] Favorite beverages are a guilty pleasure some of us indulge in despite the ecological impact. This suspended light fixture may be the solution for all that repetitive waste, taking scrap modules and turns them slowly into something new and quite crafty. Tetra Pak drink boxes form the basis for this origamic, disco-ball-shaped homage by Ed Chew to Buckminster Fuller and his work on geodesic domes and other super-stable geometric structures. With rhythmic simplicity, a series of used boxes can be folded and converted into pentagonal and hexagonal pieces that slot together forming permeable spheres (or cylinders or other shapes). The resulting configurations work toward dispersing light from a central hanging, standing or wall-mounted source, while providing mutual stability without the need for adhesives or fasteners. Eat your heart out, Epcot Center. Keep Going - Check out this Great Related Dornob Article: Modular Boxes of Light = Infinitely Interactive Illumination Creative Cardboard Hanging, Floor & Table Lamp Designs [ Filed under Lamps & Lights & in the Furnishings category ] [ Dornob | Archives | Categories | Privacy | TOS ]

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