Buildings that grow, breathe, and self-repair?
As springtime approaches, so do the home repairs – painting the trim or deck, replacing the rotted boards, getting the lawnmower blade sharpened. But what if our buildings were more like life? What if they grew from a seed? Or were heated with solar energy or sugars or oils they manufactured themselves? What if they...
Happy Yogurt
I just came across this video (see below) by Tuur van Balen, a self-described Freelance Designer Researcher, who talks about hacking yogurt to produce the antidepressant Prozac. van Balen brilliantly combines fact (synthetic biology, lab techniques, biobricks) with fiction (to my knowledge, biosynthesis of Prozac, or flouxetine, a chemical hasn’t been demonstrated) to produce a...
Piccells concept for cell-based inflatable furniture
I’m always looking cool things at the intersection of design and biology. Why? Because nature is such a cool designer! Here’s something that was both pretty and practical – inflatable furniture with a various biology-based themes. Only a design for now, but perhaps showing up one day at your local IKEA. Enjoy! Full description at...
Sandro Kopp Gallery Show in NYC, January 25
Sandro Kopp’s There you are will feature a series of portraits painted from the artist’s skype-sittings with friends who become his paintings’ subjects. The exhibit will run from January 25 through February 4, 2012 at the Lehmann Muapin gallery, New York.
Touch examines the idea that fate is a formula
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting and having dinner with Rob Fresco and his family. Rob’s working with Tim Kring of Heroes fame on a new show called Touch, starring Keifer Sutherland. It’s about a mathematically gifted, autistic-like boy that sees patterns of connections that others do not. The trailer makes references to scale-free...
Like Aliens? Try Prometheus on for size.
A tantalizing look at the upcoming new movie in the Aliens franchise, Prometheus, by the original Alien director, Ridley Scott. Trailer from Youtube
