Mixed bag (MST Design Laboratory)

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Mixed bag

Wild organic mechanisms, watch the movies http://www.strandbeest.com
Strange constructions http://www.evilmadscientist.com
Kinematic modelling http://www.cove.org/ape/
Playing with data http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7781651969805221697
Fabrication:

MIT FAB Labs http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/neil_gershenfeld_on_fab_labs.html
Fab at home http://www.fabathome.org
Online factory: http://www.ponoko.com
Oomlout: http://oomlout.com
Shapeways: http://www.shapeways.com
Pepastar: http://www.pepastar.net/

Clever graphical interfaces:

Things to do with the Nintendo Wii http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
Nintendo floor screens http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6185946983584477029
Jeff Han http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5278269886728070285&ei=VtzUSLaiDaGg2ALR0MXMBw&q=computer+interface&vt=lf
General video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9u0sDM8wg&feature=related

The laws of simplicity http://lawsofsimplicity.com/category/laws?order=ASC
Leaf-like solar panels http://www.s-m-i-t.com
Business Week's 10 top designers

Anomaly does advertising http://anomaly.com
Robin Chase connects moving people http://en-gb.facebook.com
Hilmar Janusson does bionic technology http://www.ossur.com
Richard Liddle product design http://www.cohda.com
Lunar Design for product design http://www.lunar.com
Cameron Sinclair does humanitarian architecture and design http://www.cameronsinclair.com
Lisa Strausfeld is a designer http://www.pentagram.com
John Thackara on design and society http://www.dott07.com
Martin Wattenberg on data visualisation http://www.bewitched.com
Jeffrey Zeldman on web design http://www.zeldman.com

Instructables, for example:

Smart home-made laser scanner: http://david-laserscanner.com
A plastic AFM: http://www.biophysik.physik.uni-muenchen.de/projects/plastic-afm
Home built scanning tunneling microscope (STM):

SXM-Project Uni-Muenster
John Alexander's unimorph disk scanner STM