Living food based on synthetic biology by Minsu Kim. This conceptual food by Royal College of Art graduate Minsu Kim would wriggle around on the plate and in your mouth (+ movie).
Minsu Kim's Living Food project builds on developments in synthetic biology to propose meals that behave like living creatures. "Synthetic biotech has already started to create artificial life in organic forms," says the designer, citing a swimming artificial jellyfish made of heart cells by researchers at Caltech and Harvard University. "Breathing life into artificial digestible forms in not merely a fantasy. " In the Design Interactions department of the Royal College of Art's graduate exhibition this week Minsu Kim presents three dishes, each exhibiting a different behaviour: wriggling around, waving tentacles or puffing up as though breathing.
"This project explores new culinary experiences through developments in synthetic biology, and finds its lineage in haute cuisine and molecular gastronomy," the designer adds. Show RCA continues until 30 June 2013. 3D printed shoes by Iris van Herpen and Rem D Koolhaas. Fashion designer Iris van Herpen and shoe designer Rem D Koolhaas have collaborated to create 3D-printed shoes that look like tree roots.
The shoes were presented today at Paris Fashion Week during Iris van Herpen's couture show. Koolhaas, founder of shoe brand United Nude, worked with van Herpen to create a dozen pairs of shoes for the Wilderness Embodied show. "Iris is very dramatic with her concepts and the shapes she wanted were only possible with 3D printing - they are almost like a sculpture on your feet, mimicking nature," said Koolhaas. "For me, fashion has always been about setting your own boundaries and making a statement," said van Herpen.
"This time around, Rem and I wanted to create something that echoed the beauty and wilderness of the natural world, so we decided to use the technological capabilities of 3D printing to bring this concept to life through a pair of shoes. " Van Herpen is one of the first fashion designers to experiment with 3D printing. The Handleband - phones, bikes, and open bottles by Daniel Haarburger. Our phones help us navigate and train.
They're our cameras, our lights, and our emergency link home. So why don't we use them with our bikes? The Handleband is a simple tool that uses the untapped power of our smartphones. It is an elegant and universal means of uniting your smartphone with your bicycle. For details visit www.handleband.com or shoot me an email at daniel(at)handleband.com. The Handleband was designed to be wonderfully simple and incredibly robust. Thanks to the natural flexibility of the silicone bands, this double-wrap system enables the Handleband to work effectively with any smartphone, any case, and any bicycle. If you want to attach your band to your bars permanently, just slip a zip tie through the two slots on the front of the Handelband. Oh, and it's also a bottle opener. Portable stand for iPhone, iPad, Galaxy Tab, Playbook, Droid, Touchpad.
Horizon Mass Transport System Is an All-Electric Plane-Train Hybrid. The Horizon System is an entirely electric system of transportation conceived as a hybrid between a plane and a train.
Thanks to a maglev-style mechanism, the large aircraft is able to pick up passengers inside the small SkyLink trains while both the plane and trains are in motion, eliminating the possibility of congestion at large airports and on highways. Unlike the Clip-Air—which is also a modular plane system—the Horizon System has no pilot, which means it could be the largest drone ever conceived. Passengers would enter the Horizon System through their local SkyStation. After getting on board a SkyLink pod and reaching the Airstrip, passengers are picked up by the SkyShip. As the train gently accelerates to match the speed of the approaching aircraft, it is carefully plucked from the track and lifted up, only to be soon dropped off at another location. The aircraft is operated remotely, which means it could be the largest drone ever to be conceived. . + The Horizon Project Via Dvice. Heidi GoLightly (heidigolightly) on Pinterest.