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So OpenAI has unveiled GPT-4o, their latest flagship AI. The AI can not only speak—in a disturbingly lifelike way, complete with surprise, chuckles and the like—but can use your camera to deduce...
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Peter Donders' Wind Bench Combines Digital Fabrication with Hand Shaping
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This Wind bench, by Belgian designer Peter Donders, combines digital fabrication with hand craftsmanship.
Made of birch plywood, the pieces were produced in slices on a CNC...
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Monocab: "Individual Local Public Transport" Pods that Ride Disused Railway Lines
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Monocab is a new form of transportation that makes use of existing infrastructure. Conceived of by German design engineer Thorsten Försterling, the idea is that rural areas of...
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Industrial Design Case Study: A Portable Imaging Tool
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Canfield Scientific, a manufacturer of imaging systems for science and healthcare applications, wanted to refresh their Vectra H1 handheld system. They contacted industrial...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (5-13-24 to 5-17-24)
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Here's what we looked at this week:
A man was ordered by the city to build a visual screen to conceal his boat. He complied.
This incredible mobile bridge, designed...
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The Best Way to Clean Up Oil Spills: Using Human Hair
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Brilliant design is when you can take a waste product and transform it into something badly needed.
In 1989 Phil McCrory, an Alabama hairdresser, was shampooing a customer's...
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Overnight travel is freaking amazing. I've taken overnight trains and buses in the 'States, Europe and Asia and always loved it. To be unconscious during the boring parts of...
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A Combination Carabiner/Rope Tightener
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A pickup truck isn't anything without tie-down gear, which all have their pain points. Ratchet straps are the go-to for hauling larger items, but they're overkill for smaller...
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Drones vs. High-Up Graffiti
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Years ago The New Yorker had a reader contest, asking you to add one letter to a word, to make a new word that made sense. The amusing entry I remember was "giraffiti," meant...
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Vessels Made from Wood Offcuts, Borrowing a Ceramics Technique
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What can you do with tiny offcuts of wood?
For Brooklyn-based furniture maker Richard Haining, the scraps of others are the raw materials for his STACKED series of...
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Mechanical Engineering Students Invent Leaf Blower Silencer
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At Johns Hopkins University, a Mechanical Engineering class was given a difficult assignment: To silence an off-the-shelf leaf blower, without reducing its...
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Years ago on a trip to Death Valley, I slept in a tiny one-man tent. The host had provided a cot inside to elevate the sleeping bag. Although the space was coffin-like,...
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