Sound design is een snel opkomend vak. En niet alleen de auto-industrie dingt met sound naar de gunst van de consument. Hoe gaat dat, geluid ontwerpen?
Link naar NRC artikel: Geen design zonder geluid
Filed under: Design, People, Science, Technology | Tags: biology, biotec, dna, human, organism
Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life | Video on TED.com
Can we create new life out of our digital universe?” Craig Venter asks. His answer is “yes” — and pretty soon. He walks through his latest research and promises that we’ll soon be able to build and boot up a synthetic chromosome.
Robert Lang folds way-new origami | Video on TED.com
Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami — using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
Yochai Benkler on the new open-source economics | Video on TED.com
Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.
Filed under: Design, Science, Technology | Tags: animals, Design, engineering, evolution, nature, robots
Robert Full on engineering and evolution | Video on TED.com
Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills — but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy only what’s necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from animals’ tricks.
Filed under: Design, Knowledge, People, Tools | Tags: blogs, data, information, interface, organize, search
Jonathan Harris heeft een tool die informatie uit blogs op een vette manier organiseert. Check Universe en het filpmje op TED.
TED | Talks | Jonathan Harris: The Web’s secret stories (video)
Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the infinite world on the Web — so he builds dazzling graphic interfaces that help us visualize the data floating around out there.
Filed under: Design, Knowledge, People, Technology | Tags: emergence, network effects, organizing, photosynth, pictures
Emergentie, het geheel is meer dan de som der delen, network effects, 1+1=3, een mooi voorbeeld.
TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.
Over emergentie is trouwens op fabchannel een reeks lezingen te zien. In de zoekmachine zoeken op “paradisolezingen: 1+1=3″. Aanrader evenals de andere lezingen!
Hans Rosling: Global health expert; data visionary