With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
A million years from now that hand would probably look more evolved, but the idea is nice: What if we would mold objects of the now into stone or bricks to preserve them over time and have future archeologists wonder how the technology was used? “Brick Boys” last for eternity!
Peculiar image found at: leoburnett.com
The VIBE – emotional sensing necklace combines conductive ink and textile sensors. The necklace can read multiple biometric signals of the wearer and communicates them to other devices and other wearers.
Will this technology enable us to sense emotions better than we would without it?
design.phillips.com
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NeuroSky (founded in 2004) innovator in “wearable” bio-sensor/signal processing systems and SEGA TOYS are developing mind-controlled computer games and next generation consumer toys. It is assumed products become available to the public in 2008. This brainwave technology can further be applied to wheelchairs, the lights in your house, even cellphones.
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The AR+RFID Lab at KABK (Royal Academy of Art, The Netherlands) sends this marker card, wishing an Augmented Christmas. Funny they need a real tree for hanging those markers…
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The bear is a wild animal, a predator and hostile to man. Yet somewhere in the beginning of the 20th century someone caught the idea of making a cuddly toy out of it. Perhaps that’s why in our time, the bear is no longer a threat but a museum-piece and so it seems that we are in need of new natural enemies to conquer.
So what are the ‘new’ threats? What are we afraid of? It’s MICROBES, VIRUSES and FAT CELLS!
Where other trees grow their branches towards the light, willows seem to want to touch the surface. Tim Knowles creates drawings independent of his own hand and when he attaches multiple pens to the tips of branches, it is as if he gives the tree a microphone, enabling it to tell us what it is doing all day.
Now here’s a nice piece of dead old nature I would like to stick in my computer! Notice the beautiful micro-organism-patterns.
Designed by Oooms.nl
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Coming across an image like this, makes one wonder at first: is it a giant punch-bag? Some sort of soft water-drop-sculpture?
No, it is the Emergency Outdoor Survival Cocoon, designed by John Moriarty; a place to find shelter in extreme conditions and environments. Hang it off a tree or a cliff face or anywhere else you need to. Inside, the user is comforted by warming colors and materials that will ensure he/she stays warm no matter what the conditions are like outside. And after a while, out crawls the hiking butterfly, just awoken from its metamorphosis!
Isn’t this a nice example of a Biomimicmarketing product? (in short “biomimic”) What nature has provided, man can copy, improve (or borrow characteristics from) and put on the market. That process is applied anywhere in the world and it is proved to be a very successful formula. More examples…
I am a tree and I need water! Dance with me! Guide the river!
Together with designer Emily Gobeille, Theodore Watson created the Funky Forest, an interactive ecosystem where people can grow their own tree with their bodies by posing in front of a huge canvas. The trees are watered by guiding a projected river on the floor.
“The health of the trees contributes to the overall health of the forest and the types of creatures that inhabit it.”
(I was there at the Amsterdam Cinekid Festival, the Netherlands and it was a funky experience indeed!).
muonics.net | video | walkthrough video
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Remember this one? Body heat is used to power machines in The Matrix. Nine years after the first of the trilogy came to screen, a company comes up with a body-powered-battery. In tests, M2E Power has found that two hours of motion (what an average person produces) is enough for 30 minutes to one hour of talk time on a mobile phone.
M2E Power has recently raised $8 million of funding for further development. It focuses on two markets: the US army and implementation in mobile consumer devices. The micro generators actually fit inside existing batteries, can double the battery life and can eliminate 30 to 40 percent of toxic heavy metals used in normal batteries – the company claims.
Via smartplanet.com | see also: earth2tech.com
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What you are looking at, is the logo of perhaps the (in idea) biggest competitor on the search-engine market. It is beta-testing right now, but its demo video looks promising. Why this post at NextNature? Because website-technology will in future come to “feel” more natural, or at least grow to be more humane. This is one of those steps.
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Comedian Paul Merton went to China for Five.tv (early 2007) and near Beijing he reads the following headline: This farmer grows robots…
Al Gore would love one of these mugs; displaying what happens when the world heats up and oceans begin to rise.
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A proposal to gain 600.000 m2 of land near the Dutch coast recently came from the CDA (Dutch Christian-Democratic political party). The idea is to create a tulip-shaped island that will provide agricultural space, clean energy, a new national airport and protect the current coastline all at once. The proposal must be seen as a teaser to market the idea of creating such an island. However it is not entirely unthinkable that it may become realized; Dutch contractors already built a Palm-shaped island located off the Deira coast of Dubai.
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Let us pretend you are a soldier and you are being sent to war. One of the first questions that should pop into mind: how will you prevent yourself from getting shot? Armor that body! Wear heavy boots, a helmet and don’t forget to put on your bulletproof vest to win that fight!
Now picture yourself, wearing all that stuff, sitting on the couch, fighting your opponents in some world of warcraft. No chance this could happen to you? Don’t be so sure…