A post at Get Rich Slowly put me on to this 150sqft house, built and inhabited by the author of the simplicity website rowdykittens.com.
Check out the image gallery and read more about the house in the FAQ. It’s pretty inspirational, and makes me feel like a bit of a slob in my 1,000sqft house.
Here’s a video shot for Get Rich Slowly:
We’ve seen transparent displays in plenty of experience concept videos and product designs over the years. But now, products and technologies on display at this year’s CES is suggest that truly transparent displays will be a commercial reality within the next couple years.
Lumus showed off a development kit for creating products around their 720p wearable display lenses: Story at Engadget
Vuzix has working prototypes of their Smart Glasses technology: Story also at Engadget
Samsung continues to show off their extremely impressive “Smart Window”: Story at SlashGear
The Vuzix and Lumus technologies work by projecting a video feed in to the edge of a peice of glass. That glass then has reflectors (Lumus uses a hologram) embedded in the glass to reflect light in to the viewer’s eye. I’m not sure how the Samsung Smart Window works, but it appears to be an adaptation of traditional LCD display technology, without a reflective or backlight backing.
Now that we have a few USB powered monitors on the market, I hope we’ll see a USB powered Cintiq soon. The Cintiq 12WX I use is far too cumbersome to be a portable solution. It needs USB, DVI, and Power connections to work.
Via TUAW: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/01/01/aoc-e1649fwu-portable-usb-monitor-a-good-match-for-your-macbook/
I haven’t messed with layout sketches before. I have used standard sketches in an assembly to drive parts, “top-down” modeling, but I have never used blocks in layout sketches to accomplish this. As an industrial designer my modeling approach is typically bottom-up, modeling a full product within a single part file, and breaking it up in to multiple bodies. That approach gets my head turned around if I need to deal with mechanical systems and moving parts, though, so I’d like to try to work some top-down layout sketch techniques in to my brain.
Here are a couple illustrative videos I found this morning while looking things up.