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Dieter Rams is an amazing designer. You can see from the concepts in this article that products to this day has evolved from his simple designs. My favorite principle is honest, which I think Apple’s products most reflect.
What do you guys think?
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Technabob is a blog of fresh news and information on consumer electronics, video games and gadgets, and we deliver new content on a daily basis.
Many visitors use the site as a resource as they make purchase decisions, so Technabob is an ideal place for the Square Hoodie to be posted.
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We did it! Sam and I finally launched our first Kickstarter project, Square Hoodie! Sam and I feel that Square is the future for mobile payments and we have the perfect accessory to go with it. Please support our project by ordering your own Square Hoodie and spread the word!
Square Hoodie is made of tough silicone that encapsulates the Square card reader which can then be looped on a lanyard, keys and bags!
Comes in 3 colors: green, black and red!
Here is the prototype shown: It is made out of
I am not Ferarris biggest fan, but I am a fan of the F40. The epitome of FUNCTION and FASHION. You usually get one or the other with cars. With today’s cars you’ll be lucky to even get a car that looks great without all the electronics under the hood. This Ferarri isn’t overly wired with all those features that today’s cars come with. This is a mans car; the essentials of a beautiful body with a heart of a lion. I loved this blog so much and I just had to reblog it, here are the details provided by:
The Ferarri F40 is Beautifully Engineered
The first road-going production car to break the 200mph barrier. A twin-turbocharged machine without compromise. According to Top Gear, the F40 is “the greatest supercar the world has ever seen.”
The Ferrari F40 is a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive, two-door coupé sports car produced by Ferrari from 1987 to 1992 as the successor to the Ferrari 288 GTO. From 1987 to 1989 it was Ferrari’s fastest, most powerful, and most expensive car. The car had no traction control, and was one of the few to utilize turbochargers.
Engine
- Configuration Type F120 A 90º V8
- Location Mid, longitudinally mounted
- Construction alloy block and head
- Displacement 2.936 liter / 179.2 cu in
- Bore / Stroke 82.0 mm (3.2 in) / 69.5 mm (2.7 in)
- Compression 7.8:1
- Valvetrain 4 valves / cylinder, DOHC
- Fuel feed Weber-Marelli Fuel Injection
- Aspiration Two IHI Turbos with two Behr intercoolers
- Power 478 bhp / 357 KW @ 7000 rpm
- Torque 577 Nm / 426 ft lbs @ 4000 rpm
- BHP/Liter 163 bhp / liter
Drivetrain
- Chassis kevlar body on steel spaceframe, integrated with composite materials
- Suspension (fr/r) unequal A arms, coaxial springs, Koni hydraulic shock absorbers, anti roll bar
- Steering rack-and-pinion
- Brakes ventilated discs, all-round
- Gearbox 5 speed Manual
- Drive Rear wheel drive
Performance figures
- Power to weight 0.43 bhp / kg
- Top Speed 324 km/h (201 mph)
- 0-60 mph 3.5 s
- 0-100 mph 8.2 s
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I would like to start out this blog post by talking about inspiration and how it is key to executing your idea. Having read the book “Rework,” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson they have drilled into the importance of inspiration.
Inspiration is perishable.
We all have ideas. Ideas are immortal. They last forever.
What doesn’t last forever is inspiration. Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date.
Inspiration art:
Amazing piece of art! Being from the west coast, they should have one of San Francisco!
(Source: , via kmaynard)
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Entertaining the Idea
As creative inventors we all bounce ideas off friends and it always starts as… “Wouldn’t it be cool if _____.” This time around Sam and I started to entertain the idea of creating an iphone stand accessory like the Glif, but I said “Wouldn’t it be cool if it were the glif with a bottle opener!?” The Glif, funded by kickstarter.com, proved that the iPhone crowd demanded a stand accessory–but we wanted to take it one step further. This stand would also have a bottle opener and a key chain. Key chaining made it esy and thoughtless to keep it with the user and a bottle opener because most trinkets on key chains are bottle openers. This would be the most versatile and useful iPhone product ever!
Design Features and Resources
Starting with our design constraints of a bottle opener and iPhone 4 stand on a keychain, we began modeling a prototype in the 3D design program Solidworks. We downloaded Apple’s complimentary iPhone developer case PDF document for exact dimensions of the iPhone 4.
From that drawing, we knew the minimum thickness of our product, 9.34 mm. Here is the link to the apple developer resource page: http://developer.apple.com/resources/cases/
Official Concept: The Tetro
After tons of drafts and iterations we knew the stand portion would have to be two blocks on either side of the iPhone’s thickness. Thinking now of items of our past childhood what was a block like object that would give this concept some life. I thought back to my elementary days and playing Tetris on my Gameboy. Tetris blocks would be our design inspiration.
Sam began to ask me well what we should call this thing. I started to do some searching and on Wikipedia it stated “The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four element special case of polyominoes.” The Tetro name was derived from tetrominoe.
Tetro Revision 1.1
Tetro Revision 3.2
We’ll upload more pics soon and more revisions. But so far what do you all think?! Its a work in progress…
coming soon:
Design revisions
creating of actual prototype
material selection
manufacturer selections
and more!
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I love music during work sessions. It helps set a tone for the tasks at hand. Here are a few tips on how to get music to work with you.
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Without sounding too grandiose, the world is full of endless combination. How do you know what the right combination of features, design, sustainability and marketing are best for you and your product?
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I have always bounced my bigger ideas off of Sam over the years. I’ve tackled many little projects, but have always wanted to tackle a larger production product and bring it to market. The main problem for everyone is MONEY. Production runs for plastic parts start at several thousands of dollars.
Just because you think it’s a good idea doesn’t mean its sell-able, the idea is worthless if you can’t sell it. The common statement goes “We build what we can sell and we sell what we can market.” You hear horror stories all the time where people spend their life savings bringing their idea to market and find out it doesn’t sell.
This is where Kickstarter.com has changed the game.
