30 million downloads, I’m told. So eat it, everyone who’s agonizing over thoughtful, useful products.
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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Vany, a ring light for your phone or computer
“Dramatically improve the quality of your selfies & video chats!” says the IndieGoGo campaign for Vany, a Swiss-designed ring light that can clip onto your phone, tablet, or computer. I’m curious to see whether it gains traction.
[YouTube] [Via Swiss Miss]
Photography: “Ignition Sequences”
Richie Johnston lit steel wool on fire, then played the resulting footage in reverse to create lovely, hypnotic effects:
“Why Skeuomorphism Is Like a Classic Car”
Enjoy two and a half thoughtful, beautifully produced minutes of Neven Mrgan’s observations about design evolution:
As it happens, I first got to know Neven after he knocked Photoshop for its unruly sprawl of UI elements (specifically, lots of arbitrarily different sliders). I was stung as by then I’d been writing about and fighting to address this phenomenon for years. We had so many good intentions & false starts trying to re-wing that old plane in flight, and I was sick to death of hearing Apple zealots (not Neven) say, “Just use the standard Mac elements”—when in practice no such standards existed. In any case, Neven’s post broke the ice, and we ended up dropping in on the Panic team a couple of times over the years. Their ideas on how to evolve PS were always helpful—and I was deeply gratified to rationalize a bunch of those slider types in CS5 and beyond. [Vimeo]
8-bit Guardians of the Galaxy
“Gravity Glue”
Infinitely patient sculptor Michael Grab creates insanely impressive sculptures without adhesives. Check it out:
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A terrific peek inside the making of The Lego Movie
With Google your camera can now translate the world in realtime
Google has updated its Translate app to include real-time on-screen translations of text you point your camera at.
Even more amazingly, this stuff all happens natively on device—no network connection required (F off, ridonkulous international roaming fees). And according to the team blog:
Starting today, simply tap the mic to start speaking in a selected language, then tap the mic again, and the Google Translate app will automatically recognize which of the two languages are being spoken, letting you have a more fluid conversation. For the rest of the conversation, you won’t need to tap the mic again—it’ll be ready as you need it.
Days of miracles & wonder, man.
Markly: Automated spec generation from PSD files
This app looks interesting for designers:
Markly helps designers to create beautiful & dynamic design/UI specs with ease.
Add layer coordinate, layer width, layer height, layer margins & paddings, and typography styles, etc. with simple click or drag.
Specs updated automatically when your design is modified.
[YouTube]
50 years of David Bowie’s haircuts in a single GIF
“Time May Change Me” is a rather brilliant, hypnotic set of drawings (available in poster form) by illustrator Helen Green. [Update: See also the Buscemi edition.]
[Via]