Design student alters clothing with an iPad app

July 9, 2014  |  Out There

BA (Hons) Fashion Design student Oli Royce won the GFW (Graduate Fashion Week) Innovation Award at the London, U.K., event for a menswear collection that featured engineered prints with text and visual details only visible through an iPad app. Royce, 22, studied Fashion Design at Nottingham Trent Un…
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“BuzzBuilding” would house an insect farm

June 23, 2014  |  Out There

It would take a lot of insects, but Belatchew Labs is developing a concept project termed InsectCity with the aim of making Stockholm self-sufficient in protein through urban insect production. In order to visualize what an urban insect production might look like, Belatchew Labs has developed, in t…
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A “Hollow Light”

June 9, 2014  |  Out There

Stretched textile surfaces – or at least textiles fitted over a frame – are familiar enough. One example is the familiar lampshade.” In the case of HollowLight by Diffus Design, Copenhagen, Denmark, the lampshade is the lamp. The result is a striking and fully functional furnishing accessory. …
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Tenting to the extreme

May 23, 2014  |  Out There

“Mavericks,” a new multi-purpose tent from outdoor gear company, Heimplanet, is specially designed for extreme conditions and is useable as a base camp or a group tent. It offers an inside height of two meters and more than 13 square meters of space. Its  structure was developed to withstand hi…
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Ballistics afoot

May 9, 2014  |  Out There

High-end men’s clothing maker, Over All Mastercloth (O.A.M.C.) now offers shoes, as well.  As much as they are fashionable, these are no ordinary shoes. Made from (among other materials) Kevlar®, the shoes have been tested under a barrage of live fire and remained more or less intact. Kevlar is …
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Now you see it…

May 9, 2014  |  Out There

“Invisible Barn: An Architectural Folly Merging with Nature,” is a site-specific design proposal that re-contextualizes the landscape of  its environment by projecting the landscape onto the building. The project proposes to clad the barn-shaped structure in 5mil reflective mylar film with a cl…
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“Brazucam” captures soccer action

May 6, 2014  |  Out There

The idea of “watching football” takes on new meaning with Adidas “Brazucam” soccer ball. Outfitted with six HD action cams, the ball can capture a 360-degree panoramic video—from the ball’s perspective. Custom-designed stabilization technology wrapped in leather supports the Brazucam’s…
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Interactive “sky painting”

April 7, 2014  |  Out There

Janet Echelman is known for her large-scale aerial sculptures, but a recent installation in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, topped her previous work both in size and scope. This one spanned 745 feet between the 24-story Fairmont Waterfront and the Vancouver Convention Center. The occasion was the TED Confe…
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The “Helmdo” helmet

April 7, 2014  |  Out There

German design studio Bless rethinks the bicycle helmet with a lightweight, eye-catching alternative: the “Helmdo. It includes layers of nylon and PVD soft braids woven from front to back, with the thicker braids towards the top—creating a hairstyle of its own. The helmet comes in brown (or brune…
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Smart in more ways than one

March 22, 2014  |  Out There

The Sporty Supaheroe by Austrian company, Utope, is a stylish cycling jacket featuring improved visibility and security in the dark. The wearable electronic system, which includes four modular smart patches with LEDs, sensors, a switch and a rechargeable battery, is based on stretchable circuit boar…
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