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Inventables: The Hardware Store for Designers. Multi-Touch Keyboard and Mouse by Jason Giddings. What are Multi-Touch peripheralsMulti-Touch keyboards and mice are the next generation in computer peripherals. These elegant well made devices are composed of quality tempered glass, a solid metal base, and the finest components. They are designed using simple existing technology and have no moving parts. They have rechargeable Lithium Polymer batteries and are completely wireless. The tactile sounds and lighting can be turned on or off per the users' preference plus they are coffee and doughnut resistant! Open source software That's right, the software is open source! Simple technology! The design is based on a touch screen technology known as FTIR or Frustrated Total Internal Reflection. The Name Game? Extra IncentiveI am also offering an incentive for the KickStarter who gets the most new contributors to back this project! What is the money used for?

Michael Davis Publishing - Mike's World. The Problem of Perception. First published Tue Mar 8, 2005; substantive revision Fri Feb 4, 2011 Sense-perception—the awareness or apprehension of things by sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste—has long been a preoccupation of philosophers. One pervasive and traditional problem, sometimes called “the problem of perception”, is created by the phenomena of perceptual illusion and hallucination: if these kinds of error are possible, how can perception be what it intuitively seems to be, a direct and immediate access to reality? The present entry is about how these possibilities of error challenge the intelligibility of the phenomenon of perception, and how the major theories of perception in the last century are best understood as responses to this challenge. 1. The Problem of Perception 1.1 Introduction This entry will focus on a single, central problem of perception: how to reconcile some apparently obvious truths about our experience of the world with the possibility of certain kinds of perceptual error. 2.

Kitchen Science Experiments & Science Fair Project Ideas. Quotations by Bohr_Niels. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994) How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. Quoted in L I Ponomarev, The Quantum Dice Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood it. If anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science. Print - 110 Predictions For the Next 110 Years. · People will be fluent in every language. With DARPA and Google racing to perfect instant translation, it won't be long until your cellphone speaks Swahili on your behalf. · Software will predict traffic jams before they occur. Using archived data, roadside sensors, and GPS, IBM has come up with a modeling program that anticipates bumper-to-bumper congestion a full hour before it begins.

Better yet, the idea proved successful in early tests—even on the Jersey Turnpike. · Climate-controlled jackets will protect soldiers from extreme heat and cold. . · Nanoparticles will make chemotherapy far more effective. . · Electric cars will roam (some) highways. . · Athletes will employ robotic trainers.

. · Bridges will repair themselves with self-healing concrete. . · Digital "ants" will protect the U.S. power grid from cyber attacks. . · Scrolls will replace tablets. Your Car Will Be Truly Connected · Your genome will be sequenced before you are born. 10 Things That Will Remain the Same. How to Photograph Anything. When we launched Learn My Shot, just over 2 years ago, our mission was to create the most comprehensive resource where photographers could learn how to photograph anything.

We are still enthusiastically working towards this goal. With the help of contributing photographers we published over 90 creative step by step howto tutorials that answered the most common question: How to photograph…? How to Photograph a Model How to Photograph a Water Splash How to Create Repetition How to Photograph Street Portraits How Photograph Food with Natural Light How to Photograph a Baby How to Photograph a Flying Cat How to Photograph Flowers How to Photograph Fire How to Photograph Long Exposures with Steel Wool How to Photograph Wine Bottles How to Photograph Jewelry How to Compress Perspective with Telephoto Lens How to Emphasize Texture How to Photograph a Zombi Portrait How to Shape Light for Creative Effect How to Photograph Classic Still Life How to Photograph Using Artificial Sunlight.

10 Useful Web Apps for Designers. DesignWoop welcomes this guest post by Tomas Laurinavicius. Since the iPhone and iPad entered the market you can hear lots of news about apps for these devices. Tons of apps available today and you can find everything you want. But today I would like to share 10 handy web-based apps for designers. To use these apps you don’t need to buy an iPhone or iPad, you can use them without any additional software or device, you just need a web browser. Invoice Bubble Invoice Bubble is free invoice software that lets you create an invoice and send to your client in seconds. Gridulator Tell Gridulator your layout width and the number of columns you want, and it’ll spit back all the possible grids that have nice, round integers. Browize Useful tool for resizing current browser window size to set or custom resolutions.

Screenr Screenr is a web-based tool that lets you create screencasts without installing any software. Launchlist Kuler Favigen Easily generate favicon for your website. Fillerati Loads.in. Life Calendar: How was your day? on Behance. 23 super creative repurposed items. Free All-in-One Graphic Design Starter Kit. Graphic design has an amazing community. Comprised of both the vets from the pre-computer era to the newbies who were raised on the internet and computer-editing applications, there is a huge gamut of people sharing their work and expertise online.

I know when I was starting out in design, I found tons of inspiration and information from sites like JustCreativeDesign, DesignNewz, and more. If there’s one issue, however, it’s that there’s almost too much great information out there. I know – good problem to have, right? But for those designers just starting out, or for those designers who are considering getting into design, the amount of information can be a little overwhelming.

Couple this with Paper Leaf’s desire to give back to the design community, and this is what you get: the All-in-One Graphic Design Starter’s Kit. All of these items are free, open-source and legal for both me to share & you to download – however, please don’t claim any of them as your own. Software EBooks Textures. 30 Useful Web-Based Applications for Designers. A web application is an application that is accessed via a web browser over a network. They may also mean a computer software application that is hosted in a browser-controlled environment or coded in a browser-supported language (such as JavaScript, combined with a browser-rendered markup language like HTML) and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.

With the help of these free web-based online applications you can make your work even easier than before. Web based applications are good alternatives to costly software for sure. Instead of buying costly software , you can make use of these online tools to do your design and development work. Nothing can be more useful than handy tools you can use in your design process. These Useful web based applications for every designers can to help you accomplish tasks such as color palette selection, creating unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography.

Color palette Colorschemedesigner Colorspire Adobe Kuler Menu. How to take a screenshot. Color Scheme Designer 3. Adding Color To The Most Iconic Photos In History. [to_like id="51475"] [/to_like] From The Web Leave a comment comments Tags: color historical photos, historical photos color. 29 ways to stay creative. Touch Of Modern. +-0 Humidifier Version 3 by Naoto Fukasawa Womb Chair by Eero Saarinen Therm-O by Manuel Desrochers NEA Intimate Massager by Lelo QLOCKTWO W by Biegert & Funk Meeting Knives by Mia Schmallenbach Silhouette, Floating Lamp by Angela Jansen Erosion II Dining Table by Joseph Walsh. Fonts Used In Logos Of Popular Popular Websites. Branding and logo designing is very important for any website as every website has to establish itself on distinct basis and to deliver unique message. Therefore, they try to use most excellent designed fonts. Today we have collected fonts used in logos of 26 popular websites.

They are collected by careful web reference and font recognition software “What the font”. Many of them are used with modifications which make it difficult to identify them, I have tried my best to give 100% result but if there are some mistakes then do let me know. P.S. mostly of them are not free for use. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Design-aerobics 2012. Design-aerobics 2012 styria architects: university of ma READER'S SUBMISSION the dissonance between the existing and the new spatial programme and the related technology makes the dogma on designing and basi... urbanus: argitecture / archicu architecture for the second year, designboom hosted an architectural conversation which looked at the future trends of cities. wang hui pres... michel charlot: U-turn for BEL design accent lighting with a twist - a fully removable and adjustable head gives the user complete flexibility and 360 degree illumin...

DESIGNBOOM COMPETITIONS LEXUS is announcing the creation of the LEXUS DESIGN AWARD to nurture and suppor DESIGNBOOM COMPETITIONS in collaboration with designboom the india design forum celebrates india's vibra PAPER - sept. 19 - nov. 19 DESIGN - AEROBICS beyond a writing surface, paper can be used for so much more. furniture, lighting, packaging: from the planning stages to finished works, we'll explore the infinite possibilities... Invent Your Own Anything. Random Sentence Generator. Blog » The Crazy World of Visual Hallucinations.

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