{"id":11361,"date":"2007-01-11T20:59:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T20:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/01\/design-bits-3d-sketching-airswitches-more.html"},"modified":"2007-01-11T20:59:47","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T20:59:47","slug":"design_bits_3d_sketching_airswitches_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/design_bits_3d_sketching_airswitches_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Design bits: 3D sketching, Airswitches, &amp; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/na*\/\/<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;To what question is the answer a \u00a368,000 Volkswagen?,&quot; quipped British journalist Jeremy Clarkson.&#160; I have similar thoughts about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathmos.com\/usa\/erol.html\">Mathmos Airswitch<\/a>&#8211;a light that can be turned on\/off and dimmed\/brightened by the proximity of your hand.&#160; Then again, it&#8217;s kind of cool for its own sake. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocreate.co.uk\/flash.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Designed by the same folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocreate.co.uk\/flash.html\">two create<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npw.co.uk\/onlinesales\/product.php?product_id=750\">3D drawing pad<\/a> looks pretty fly (tough to tell without using it, of course).<\/li>\n<li>Nanda&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandahome.com\/\">Clocky<\/a> is an alarm clock that not only rings, but also runs and hides to force you to get up. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Forget <em>Dogs Playing Poker<\/em>; how about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/009218.php\">fish playing horns<\/a>? &#160; (And apparently someone decided that a fish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/007286.php\"><b>does<\/b> need a bicycle<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li>Ten bucks gets you a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/lsus.shop.com\/op\/~COLOR_CHANGING_SPOONS_SET_OF_3-prod-10703520\">plastic spoons that change color<\/a> in your microwave when your food reaches 120F&#8211;kinda great, although Gizmodo foresees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/gadgets\/hypercolor-spoons-red-when-your-soup-is-hot-225197.php#c787156\">dire results<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/heatsensitive_spoons_5235.asp\">Via<\/a>] &#160; The invention made me think of that unfortunate Genera <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hypercolor\">Hypercolor<\/a> clothing from the &#8217;80s; Googling for it led me to discover temperature-sensitive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mavromatic.com\/archives\/000496\">Eclipse wall paint<\/a>.  (How does $349 per gallon grab you?)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com\/en.html\">Geostationary Banana Over Texas<\/a> is, if nothing else, aptly named.  The site&#8217;s navigation sucks, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/01\/03\/geostationary_banana.html\">here&#8217;s a photo<\/a>.&#160; (Speaking of bananas, how great are these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/japanese-packaging.html\">Japanese juice boxes<\/a>?) A bit closer to earth, if only in terms of practicality, C|NET talks about proposals for flying power generators; see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2300-1008_3-6147209-1.html\">images<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>[* Non-Adobe. Some folks like the non-Adobe-heavy bits I post here, while others couldn&#8217;t care less.&#160; Others, you&#8217;ll certainly want to skip this one. \ud83d\ude42 For the record, I do think this stuff is relevant for this blog, as I view design+technology as inherently Adobe-related.] <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/na*\/\/ &quot;To what question is the answer a \u00a368,000 Volkswagen?,&quot; quipped British journalist Jeremy Clarkson.&#160; I have similar thoughts about the Mathmos Airswitch&#8211;a light that can be turned on\/off and dimmed\/brightened by the proximity of your hand.&#160; Then again, it&#8217;s kind of cool for its own sake. [Via] Designed by the same folks at two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}