via koikoikoi. Check out the new headquarters for the 1,700 Adidas employees located in Herzogenaurach, Germany. This was designed by Kinzo Berlin studio. More photos below.
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Imaginary Smartphone Interface Works Better Than Emperor’s New Clothes
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via gizmag. Don’t really see the point of this, but it’s pretty cool regardless. Video below.
Students at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany have created a new concept for smartphones they call the “imaginary phone” concept. The premise of the idea is to allow users to be able to do micro interactions with their phones, without actually having to interact with their phone. Working with the phone on a daily basis gives us a fair idea of the buttons and operations that could be done without even looking at the phone.
Currently, the concept utilizes depth sensitive cameras to recognize hand gestures like tapping and sliding to ultimately convey the information to the smartphone. Patrick Baudisch, a professor of computer science at the institute believes the idea could come in useful for certain interactions where the imaginary phone serves as a shortcut to rid users of common mundane tasks.
via core77. Volkswagen’s “Transparent Factory” in Dresden, Germany… Video after the break.
You’ve never seen efficiency and technology like this. The parts are delivered via mass transit and delivered to the production floor by robots. The floor is beautiful Canadian maple, and yet it delivers electricity cordlessly to rolling workstations via induction. The power tools used by the workers count how many bolts they’ve installed, so you know exactly where you are in the build. Individual cranes suspend the cars at the appropriate height and angle relative to the height of the worker. It’s so safe that car buyers themselves can freaking hop on the assembly line and help build the cars.
World’s Largest Model Airport Costs $5 Million
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via Gawker. Not sure why this appealing to me… probably because I owned a ton of Micro Machines as a kid and a bunch of the environments/playsets. Anyways, here are some images of the world’s largest model airport which is on display in Hamburg, Germany at Miniatur Wunderland. It took 6 years and $5 million to make this airport. This looks a lot like the magic of tilt shift photography. More photos below.