David Hanson’s robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an “emotional” live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future where robots truly mimic humans.
About David Hanson
David Hanson merges robotics and art to design life-like, social robots that can mimic human expression and emotion.
About TedTalk
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.
A self-balancing unicycle experimental vehicle from Honda to be shown at the Tokyo Motor Show next month might just be history in the making.
Honda’s U3-X was cleverly developed by pursuing the concept of “harmony with people” and with its size and weight, it will clearly mix comfortably with pedestrian traffic, though Honda will be conducting extensive testing in a real-world environment to verify and refine the practicality of the device.
The lecture will address a series of conceptual elaborations on modelling the relationships between users and designers within user centred design (UCD). The elaborations are based on the allocations of control, creativity, initiative, and freedom of choice, between users and designers; on the commitment on user need satisfaction; and on the relative distances between the stakeholders in design. The discussion aims at introducing the idea of user-designer relationships as a feasible concept for mapping the field of UCD, and to underline the versatility of relationships that UCD community should be able to assume in its attempts to encounter with the users.
About the Speacker
Prof Turkka Keinonen, Doctor of Arts, works as a professor of industrial design in the School of Design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. His teaching and research interests lie in user-centered design and product concept creation.
Professor Keinonen has worked for leading Finnish design consultancies such as Creadesign and Muodos (presently Desigence) in professional and consumer goods design projects, done interaction and exhibition design, designed paper machinery for Metso Paper and consulted for Finnish National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health (STAKES) in international projects aiming at mainstreaming of information technologies.
Keinonen has written, edited or co-edited the following books: One-dimensional usability (1998); Industrial Design for Usability (2000, in Finnish), Mobile Usability – How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone, (by McGraw-Hill 2003), Product Concept Design (2004, in Finnish), The Change of Design (2004, in Finnish), Product Concept Design – A review of the Conceptual Design of Products in Industry (by Springer Verlag 2006) and Development of the Design Competence in Technology Companies (2006, in Finnish).
He was nominated the designer of the year 2000 for his merits in user-centered industrial design and in 2003 he received The Federation of Finnish Electrical and Electronics Industry SET prize for developing usability education.
NUS Design Incubation Centre just completed a workshop, design thinking workshop, with our business school’s alumni.
This workshop explored an array of design thinking tools, applied to real-life business scenarios, to seek new opportunities for radical innovation. Apart from learning the creativity toolkit, participants experienced a day of active innovation culture, from ethnographic trips to concept generation to narrative storyboarding. The entire process aimed to be versatile enough for the development of any business, involving products, services, spaces or systems.
Below are some photos from activities. For more information, please visit Design Incubation Centre’s website.
Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT’s breakthrough version, WiTricity — a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker.
About Eric Giler
As the CEO of MIT-inspired WiTricity, Eric Giler has a plan to beam electric power through the air to wirelessly power your laptop or recharge your car. You may never plug in again.
About TedTalk
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.
Theme: “Open Source Bathroom”
A bathroom that everyone in the home can use as they like or need, a bathroom that can be altered over time, be adapted and changed. A bathroom that reflects its users’ experiences and their new needs.
Prizes:
1st Prize: Euro 2500
2nd Prize: Euro 2000
3rd Prize: Euro 1500
Application Deadline: 11th Dec 2009
The competition will comprise two categories:
A- CERAMIC PRODUCTS SHAPED BY DRY PRESSING.
1st prize: Euro 3600
2nd prize: Euro 1800
B- CERAMIC PRODUCTS SHAPED BY OTHER METHODS
1st prize: Euro 3600
2nd prize: Euro 1800
The objectives of this competition is: The product should be innovative in terms of shape, asethetics or function, should offer enhanced decorative potential, be good value for money and be produced by a process that is environmentally friendly.
NUS ID 2nd year student, Darren Yeo, won the top prize for Gifts and Premiums for the modern and happy office design competition and 3rd year student, Cheng Siew Ming, was also awarded the 2nd runner-up in the same competition. This competition was organized by Singapore Gifts and Stationery Show 2009.
Top prize: Diao Yu, Darren Yeo
Corporate gifts and premiums are effective marketing tools, but are easily forgotten by consumers. The attachment of an experiential encounter with the gift would, however, be able to create a lifelong memory. Hence, an exquisite teabag collection, inspired by Singapore’s iconic oolong tea, 钓鱼（diao yu）, has been created to also cater to the caffeine needs of a working adult, both locally and internationally. Besides breaking apart from conventional appearance, the tea filter will also be made with environmental-friendly material for the eco-friendly consumers.
3rd Prize: Plantimo, CHENG SIEW MING
Nature in sight can make people feel happy and relax. But what if nature plays another role in office?
“Plantimo” is the product everyone will keep eyeing on. It serves as a timer clock which counts down to the end of work. User set the time by turning the leaf knob that works on the turn-and-dial phone mechanism. Ticking off silently, the plant will rise slowly, seemingly growing to life, and finally a bud opens slightly to reveal the hidden flower. This mimics the mood of workers, blossoming after a hard day of work, revealing the fruit of labour.
Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it — inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds About Michael Pritchard
With cutting-edge nanotech, Michael Pritchard’s Lifesaver water-purification bottle could revolutionize water-delivery systems in disaster-stricken areas around the globe.
About TedTalk
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.
Call for Entries for Open Group and Enterprise Group of Dongguan Cup International Industrial Design Awards 2009
DETAILS FOR OPEN GROUP COMPETITION
PRODUCT DESIGN CATEGORY:
1、Electronic Information Products
2、Household Products
3、Toy Products
4、Given Topic I
5、Given Topic II
Note：Final topics for given topic groups will be provided by certain well-known enterprises in Dongguan City and will be available in few weeks.
ELIGIBILITY:
Open to those who are keen in design, whether they are students, working in industrial design or in production sector. Individual entry ONLY. Entrants may decide by themselves to apply for one or all of five categories.
AWARDS FOR OPEN GROUPS: SUPREME GOLD AWARD x1：RMB 200,000 Trophy
GOLD AWARD x4：RMB40,000, Trophy
Note: The winning entries shall be ready to be put into industrial production.
SILVER AWARD x5：RMB20,000, Trophy
BRONZE AWARD x12：RMB10,000, Trophy
MERIT AWARD x220：Merit Award Certificate
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