Memoto Camera Logs Your Life
From MIT Technology Review: [Video] Logging Life with a Lapel Camera A startup believes people will want a photographic record of their lives, taken at 30-second intervals. “We want to provide people with a perfect photographic memory,” says Martin Källström, CEO of Memoto. His startup is creating a tiny clip-on camera that takes a picture […]
What your Mac keyboard would look like if it was buried for a hundred years
After the excavation, everybody attending the 2113 meeting of the World Anthropology Association discussed what they’d found. It was a century-old midden pit, full of Apple devices from the days before the company had gotten into biological devices and cloning kits. Maico Akiba is an artist and illustrator in Japan who has created an entire […]
If Payphones Survive, Will They Look Like This?
From Mashable.com: When was the last time you used a phone booth to make a call? Odds are, not for several years at least. So are all of those city phone booths rendered useless, relics of a bygone era? Not necessarily — they might just need a bit of a makeover. Late last year, New […]
Images from a century of medical propaganda
Health, history, and design collide at the National Library of Medicine. The US National Library of Medicine is much more than a library about medicine. Founded in 1836, the Maryland-based NLM is home to the world’s largest collection of biomedical resources, including old books, videos, and scientific studies. It also houses a fascinating online collection […]