Lucid Blocks
Dollar-store junk becomes the item sprites of Lucid Blocks
Eric Alfaro photographed household clutter into a Minecraft that runs on dream logic
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Psst, call centers are monitoring your emotions now
Like most arts graduates in their twenties, I have two voices: the one I use for day-to-day interactions and the one I’ve cultivated working in service positions. The former is more sarcastic and the voice I’m likelier to employ without thinking, but the latter is genuine. When I say “have a nice da
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MIT is designing furniture that’s smarter than we are
The new project at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab is a miniature chair that constructs itself.
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Red alert: there are now robotic cheetahs
After seeing the “design features” that enable the cheetah to run so fast, I wanted to circle back to Boston Dynamics’ robo-cheetah, which we looked at a few years ago. Their creation isn’t faster than a Ferrari, but with a top speed of 28 miles per hour, it’s faster than Usain Bolt. The concept ren
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Joi Ito wants you to play more
Disobedience is good for you.
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A robot as a coworker isn’t actually as terrifying as it may seem
robots are our friends!
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The future of furniture design are motion-controlled, shapeshifting chairs
The promise of MIT’s Transform project, currently showing at Milan’s Design Week, is that your living room suite of the future will be a lot different. Furniture will be able to transform itself to accommodate you, or your girlfriend, or your kid. This rigid wooden swivel stood that I’m currently si