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Peugeot’s Top Ten for 360
Last September I felt rather alone in pointing out (reLink) that Peugeot’s 2007 Design Competition had a transreal component. Not only does the company usually make a full-size model of the winning entry to put on show, this time the winning design was to be heading for the XBox 360’s virtual roads. I’ve been aware [...]
Gattaca With Interest
Six or seven years ago I was playing around with a script idea involving “sampleclans”, groups of kids who would sample real world things (including people, and especially celebrities) and then sell the collected information which was subsequently used to digitally re-create those things for other uses (I mentioned this idea a few months ago [...]
Exploding Architectural Design
Nice entry on the Inhabitat blog (link) discussing Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis’ “contour crafting” system (link) (some of you might recall his name from an earlier blog entry – reLink). I’d suggest that in addition to the video and the Inhabitat entry that the comments are also worth checking out. And if you’ve not at least [...]
Old News: “Reverse” Product Placement
Catching up on some blog reading I found an interesting entry on the MIT Advertising Lab discussing “reverse product placement” (Link). The post references a Harvard Business Review article by David Edery (Link) which unfortunately isn’t freely available except for this quote: “Retailers are starting to place real products in virtual worlds. It’s just a [...]
UGS Assimilated by Siemens AG
A little late but too important not to mention is news from late last week that Siemens AG is purchasing privately-held UGS Corporation, one of the leaders in PLM software and a company I’ve mentioned a few times. The press release over on the UGS website (Link) and the announcement over on Desktop Engineering (Link) [...]
Sliding on Mental Ice
Similar to last year I took a rather long road trip, and as expected my impressions haven’t changed much since that earlier journey. What has changed a bit is how I view what it is I see. I’m now less concerned with the junk and the homes we build to store that stuff than I [...]
Craftsman’s Home CNC
I guess Sears has been feeling adventurous; I just posted on their foray into Second Life and now I’m finding out that they’re selling a Craftsman-branded home CNC machine (Link). Not that there aren’t other machines like this on the market, but when Sears starts selling one I get the feeling the market is getting [...]
Sears’ Using Second Life for Previewing
Interesting bit of news from 3pointD (Link) as word is that Sears, in partnership with IBM, will be using Second Life as a kind of preview system for their customers. From the blog entry:
The plan is to allow a customer to import their own kitchen design to the virtual space, fit it out with Sears [...]