Adam Little / Nonlocal

When Tellart is involved, the student projects are always great, and how can they not be when the brief is to prototype a “future pet.” The three students here combined the piggy bank with the Tamagochi and prototyped something that’s potentially very useful. Now if someone would only prototype the same concept but make it work with old fashioned pocket change.

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2011/03/10/the-future-piggy-bank/

Studiomama in London has an online shop with a lot of free stuff, including this super classy outdoor kitchen. Materials not included.

http://www.studiomama.com/shop.html

Swedish (and Japanese?) outfit Teenage Engineering are now taking orders for the OP-1, the cutest god damn synthesizer of all time.

http://www.dijitalfix.com/blog/2009/06/op-1-from-teenage-engineering/

Robert Overweg is a photographer who works in virtual worlds. His photographs are as amazing as you would expect from a job description like that. I would love to see him or someone else envision a specialized camera for this job.

http://www.creativeapplications.net/games/robert-overweg-profile-games/

I saw Filastine DJ on a sinking boat on the Gowanus Canal and then on a club stage in Tokyo. I’m sure neither of these compared to seeing his Sound Swarm project in action.

http://filastine.com/log/?p=134

Strelka is a new, international post-graduate design program in Moscow with a curriculum designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaus. Last time I checked in on the blog, all the students were on a field trip to Hong Kong. Not bad!

http://strelkainstitute.com/en/blog

John’s Phone (awesome name) but Dutch ad agency John Doe (also awesome) is designed to work with any SIM card and last three weeks on a single charge. My favorite part is the beeper-like screen across the top edge.

http://www.johnsphones.com

electronicmiracles.com is a fitting URL for Australian designers ENESS. Why go see Tron when this stuff is happening all around us.

http://motherboard.tv/2010/12/17/tron-premiere-a-light-session

Midget and Giant by Ryuji Nakamura and Associates is crafty and delightful. If only they imagined this with video chat and not Photo Booth.

http://www.ryujinakamura.com/z_material/work/midget%20&%20giant/00.html

Cute, fun, clever, but probably doesn’t fit into real life. If we take this a step further with a Kinect and some 3D projection mapping, then we’re getting somewhere.