Cool Hunting
| 10 June 2004view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
ArtBots 3
by Josh Rubin
Participants have been announced for the third annual ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots. Work from the following artists will be included: Leonel Moura; William Tremblay; Jonah Brucker-Cohen (piece pictured here); Alex Baker, LEMUR; Ralf Schreiber; franz alken; Sean Salmon, James Tichenor, Vasil Daskalopoulos, and Phillip Stanley-Marbell; Dan Paluska; Daniel C. Howe; Aaron Arendt; Bruce Shapiro; Ellen Lake and Chris Green; Machine Cent'red Humanz [Chip Kali, Lahaag, and Spess]; A.R.T.; Hayes Raffle, Amanda Parkes, and Hiroshi Ishii; Nicholas Stedman and Rhya Tamasauskas; Pascal Glissmann, Martina Hoefflin; David Birchfield, David Lorig, and Kelly Phillips; James Powderly, Michelle Kempner, Tom Kennedy, Todd Polenberg, Brendan Fitzgerald, and Paul Bartlett. An overview of their pieces is available here.
The show will take place 17-19 September 2004 in Harlem, New York City.
OQO uPC
by Josh Rubin
The OQO Model 01 ultra personal computer (uPC) is a fully-functional Windows XP computer. The OQO has a 1GHz processor, a 20GB hard drive, 256MB of RAM, a color transflective display, and integrated wireless, as well as Fire Wire and USB ports. What makes this thing more exciting than other Windows devices is the size and style. It packs all that functionality into a super compact and somewhat stylish package. Skinning the Windows interface to look and feel like a Mac would almost make me want one of these.
Here's a video of it in action.
Thanks, Pete!
LOOP Design
by Josh Rubin
LOOP Design showed their latest and greatest at the annual Silver Spoon Hollywood Buffet-- a benefit for the LA Youth Networks’ homeless teen shelter. Stars come to this buffet of product to shop for a cause. Nicole Ritchis, for example, grabbed the "You Rock" PVC Tote, pictured here.
Led by the creative genius of China Young, LOOP is armed with only impeccable taste and a humble mission: to design products for real, live people-- not focus group or egos. Creating functional, well-designed, smart products with emotion, intelligence and heart is what gets LOOP up in the morning (although coffee helps, too).
check out all of LOOP's latest and greatest in their on-line store.
