Emily is the creation of Image Metrics in partnership with USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. Using ICT’s special scanning system that can capture facial details down to the individual pore, the face of actress Emily O’Brien was transformed into a digital representation of herself, which could then be entirely machine-manipulated. A special spherical lighting rig [...]
You’d never know from your first glance that this building in the district of Izola, Slovenia, is actually a public housing project. We’ve grown accustomed to the usual stale and oppressive concrete bunker-like structures when we think of public housing.
Enter a team of Slovenian designers, who’ve taken their cues from the modular honeycomb clusters of [...]
The German industrial conglomerate Festo created a remote-controlled flying device modeled on the Manta Ray. The Air-Ray basically a helium-filled ballonet in the shape of a manta, but what separates this from a typical party balloon is that propulsion is achieved by a beating wing. It literally “swims” in a sea of air. [...]
Abdolhadi Mirhejazi, a Dubai based inventor, wanted to come up with something truly innovative, a 100% green vehicle. The result was the Naturmobil, a one horsepower vehicle, that literally, runs on horsepower. Unlike traditional horse-drawn carriages, this horse rides inside, behind the driver, shielded by an all-weather canopy. It’s built out of [...]
