Retrofuture Today L’Usine à Design, une belle rencontre Le concept du site ? Emilie Gobin et Charles Digby-Smith : L’Usine à Design se définit comme un site marchand autour de l’ameublement ET un site communautaire. Le design devient accessible économiquement (car moyen de gamme), géographiquement (car proposé sur le web) et intellectuellement (car il se démocratise). L’Usine à Design est en réalité à la fois site et boutique regroupant du mobilier et des objets design importés d’Asie, abordables et destinés à un grand public. Rapidement, les rôles s’attribuent en fonction des personnalités de chacun. Autre constat : bien que les écoles de design françaises soient réputées sur la scène internationale, très peu de designers travaillent pour l’industrie nationale. Installé depuis 12 ans en Asie, Toni utilise son réseau pour donner un accès direct aux usines qui apportent une vraie différence au regard de la concurrence : la personnalisation des meubles. Comment diminuez-vous le nombre d’intermédiaires ? Vos best-sellers? L’avenir ?
My Parents Were Awesome That sounds great! That sounds great! Current problems for people There’s a war going on in the living rooms of the world – the never ending battle between home electronics and interior design. People want music to sound good. This speaker tries to answer all of the questions above. How we designed it for people The transparent design lets the speaker blend in to any living room out there. Usability The speakers come with a small wifi antenna, that can plug in to any computer, music player or smart phone out there. Rechargeable WiFi antenna that plugs into any headphone socket Sustainability Being big is good for sound quality, but not so good for shipping. The speaker is then assembled at home, IKEA style. A well established definition of sustainability is to satisfy the needs of people, planet and profit. Update: The Transparent Speaker is available for Pre-Orders, and will be coming in late-spring 2013! Image courtesy of convoy.tumblr.com Category Tags speaker, transparent
:: Tour du monde :: Photos, carnet de voyage 30 Weird And Awesome Inventions The line between crazy and ingenious is often a very thin one, and sometimes ideas that sound great in your head should really only stay there. On the other hand, there are these every day problems we all face, yet no one comes up with a viable solution that could solve them. So maybe, just maybe, one of the crazy inventions out there could actually prove to be useful with time, even if in the beginning they sound plain ridiculous? Like, for example, motivating yourself not to give up on a diet – if you got trouble saying no to that extra helping, start wearing a weight-watcher belt, so that everyone could see your progress with the centimeters! Or, for those who can’t fall asleep alone, the Hug Me pillow should be as must have. Baby Stroller and Scooter Hybrid Image credits: pixstudio Flask Tie Image credits: flasktie.co Anti-Pervert Hairy Stockings Image credits: chinasmack Ping Pong Door Image credits: tobiasfraenzel.com Goggle Umbrella Image credits: 25 Togo Studio | Avalable at: Amazon.com
The Long Tail Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:46:19 “Priced and Unpriced Online Markets" by Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Edelman. Discusses tradeoffs in market such as email, IP addresses, search and dial-up Internet. "Reminiscent of the old adage about losing money on every unit but making it up in volume, online markets challenge norms about who should pay, when, and why." Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:53:50 From Mashable: “Freezly is a lot like Tweetmeme in that it finds link and tweets and shows you their popularity based on retweets. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:08:25 From Cellular News. Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:54:23 From the LA Times: “Industry insiders estimate that since 2007, revenue for most adult production and distribution companies has declined 30% to 50% and the number of new films made has fallen sharply. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:07:00 From the AP: “In recent days, the top three Kindle sellers have been free books: Patterson’s, Joseph Finder’s “Paranoia” and Keyes’ “The Briar King.” Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:09:38
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