The events not to be missed during Milan Design Week 2023 continue: we’re back to Alcova to talk about the Knotty project by the Rotterdam-based design studio The New Raw. Founded by architects Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki, the studio will present from 17 to 23 April a collection of playful, bold and tactile-textured benches,…
The relationship with technology is different for each of us and, for many, often problematic, but in the coming years we could see real changes. A recent example is the Little Signals project, by Google's Seed Studio in collaboration with the London-based Map Project Office, which experiments with new ways of interacting with technology.
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On Monday, we saw how smart tattoos can certainly be an innovation, part of that world called wearable technologies. These devices can be part of our clothing or in contact with our skin, and have different applications. From the most common products such as smartwatches for training to microchips under the skin - for example…
One of the recent innovations in wearable technologies is smart tattoos, a cool name for electronic circuits that can be applied to the skin. Their function is mostly to monitor health, sending signals and data to your devices in response to a certain stimulus/condition of the body. In the future, they could also replace microchips…
Over the last period, you might have heard about crypto art and GIFs and videos sold for millions of dollars, but what is going on? Everything starts with NFTs or non-fungible tokens. They are used to register the ownership of a digital object on a blockchain. To put it simply, bitcoins are fungible tokens, if…
We have recently talked about projects that use food waste to create new materials, mostly prototypes and start-ups. Today we want to present Orange Fiber s.r.l., a company founded in 2014 by Adriana Santanocito and Enrica Arena and based in Catania, Sicily. Its aim is to recover citrus juice by-products by transforming them into exquisite fabrics,…
NAOWAO (Nao Sakamoto) is a very talented Japanese media artist who constantly experiments looking for new ways to communicate. With a very broad background, she has managed to find a way of expression that blends film direction and architecture. The results are immersive videos that can excite us and make us dream. After a difficult…
With a minimal aesthetic and retrò lines inspired by the Commodore 64, Raspberry Pi 400 is a personal computer built into a keyboard. On the back, there is a generous compartment for peripherals. By connecting it to a monitor and a mouse it can become a desktop pc, but it can also function as a…
WertelOberfell was founded in 2007 by Gernot Oberfell (1975) and Jan Wertel (1976). Both studied Industrial Design in Stuttgart at the State Academy of Arts. Their work ranges from furniture, lighting and industrial products to experimental research pieces for companies such as Braun, Neff, Philips, Panasonic, Sony, DuPont Corian and many others. One of their…
Teenage Engineering is a Swedish consumer electronics company and manufacturer founded in 2005 by Jesper Kouthoofd, David Eriksson, Jens Rudberg and David Möllerstedt and based in Stockholm. One of their latest product is OB-4 Magic Radio: a portable high fidelity loudspeaker with two 4'' bass drivers and a pair of neodymium tweeters that deliver…