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Fashion comes in many forms and styles. Sometimes you can see yourself wearing or using it, while other times it’ll just leave you wondering why the designer created it in the first place. When it comes to the pieces in “Burden of Excess” created by artist Andrea Hasler, I find myself gravitating towards the latter. What about you?

It’s basically a set of handbags, footwear, and accessories that look like they were crafted from raw meat.

For obvious reasons, they remind me of Lady Gaga.

The big difference is that Andrea didn’t use real meat with her creations. She used a special wax instead that resembles the appearance of meat, although the texture would most likely be different. This makes sense, since everything would spoil in a matter of hours had she used actual meat.

You might be wondering why such an unusual series is dubbed as “Burdens of Excess.” That can be easily explained by Andrea’s goal and motivation behind the collection, which was supposedly about making a statement against consumerism. I personally don’t see the connection, but maybe you can.

Would you wear this stuff? Nah, I didn’t think so, either.

[via Incredible Things]

In Tokyo, it was announced that the rainy season started on May 29, 10 days earlier than normal. It is due to last for about 45 days before the hot, humid summer weather starts.

But who wants to get wet while sniffing around the bushes and watering the telephone poles?

Your dog and you can both make it through the rainy season, staying dry and fashionable, with great “pair-look” raincoats.

Doggy’s fashionable orange raincoat is made to match mama’s coat. It features a hole in the bag to thread a leash, comes in 3 different sizes and is machine-washable at home.

Rain jacket for dogs
Price: ¥5,980 (including tax)
Material: 100% polyester
Sizes:
Small – 37.5cm (length), 51cm (waist), and 35cm (neck)
Medium – 46.5cm (length), 63cm (waist), and 47cm (neck)
Large – 57.5cm (length), 69cm (waist), and 53cm (neck)

Rain jacket for people
Price: ¥19,800 (including tax)
Material: 100% polyester
Sizes: 5 sizes are available (Japanese size: 7,9,11,13,and 15)

Two different groups have announced their own unique kind of 3D printing material today, one of them from Materialise, the other from Shapeways. While the Materialise material is a bit more of a bendable material the company suggests could be made into such objects as purses and flexible piggy banks, Shapeways material is much more of a “squishy” sort of situation. While the difference between the two may seen slight to those who’ve not had the chance to experience either, we can’t stop our brains from pouring out the possibilities – squishy, squishy possibilities.

Shapeways Elasto Plastic material

The Shapeways company is one that generally has users create and order models – they have you send in a model or create one with their tools, they print it, and you get it shipped to you. Creators of these objects can also sell their items through Shapeways Shops.

With the release of this Elasto Plastic material, Shapeways is working with “makers” – people who design 3D objects for 3D printing – to test in “one big, global 3D Printing R&D team.” Elasto Plastic is being shown and experimented here on purely pre-release terms, noting that they’re not at a final point for properties, this including both finish and color.

The material presents a unique new platform where creators of 3D objects can get a bit more wobbly with their experiments.

“The new, improved Elasto Plastic is a great option for Makers as it is an incredibly durable material with a lot of really interesting properties such as high impact resistance, flexibility and compression (depending on the geometry), along with a high level of static friction because of the surface texture. Though not strictly water-tight, it can hold liquids, but it does not like high temperatures or fire … and it is not so good for very small things.” – Shapeways

How about a little set of squishy toys for the ol’ Pokemon collection? Have a peek at Shapways’ video for this material and see what you make of it.

Materialise Rubber-Like Material [TPU 92A-1]

The “Rubber-Like” material from Materialise being shown this week was originally created for a dress. This dress was shown off earlier this year by Iris van Herpen while the material was, as Materialise calls it: “the first fully-functional flexible material for 3D printing.” This material is being re-shown this week because it will here, for the first time, be offered for testing by the public.

Like the Shapeways material above, this material is part of Materialise’s own 3D printing service, and wont be available for purchase outside of their setup. This material works for shock absorption, rigid-yet-bendable applications, and of course, creating a bouncy ball of sorts. The company has made it clear that this material is not as strong as rubber, but has many similar properties.

VIA: TechCrunch
SOURCE: 3D Printing Industry

3D printing gets squishy with new materials from Materialise and Shapeways is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Fashionistas out there this is a tutorial you might want to check out, especially if wearable technology sounds like something you could be interested in.

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As a sort of a “Part 2″ or even “Part 3″ of the Glass chat series SlashGear has appearing this week and last, today’s words with Google Glass’ lead industrial designer Isabelle Olsson lend some insight on the device’s road to final hardware. Speaking on how the original Glass prototypes eventually became the device you see today, Ollson shared three principles that allowed the team to solidify their process.

This is only one segment of the extended fireside chat shared with Google I/O attendees earlier this month. Also included in the chat were Senior Developer Advocate at Google for Project Glass Timothy Jordan, Product Director for Google Glass Steve Lee, and Google Glass Engineer Charles Mendis.

This team left knowledge on the social implications of Glass, of when Glass would eventually be released to the public, and on modular fashion and the detachability of the Glass computer module.

Isabelle Olsson: We took a reductionist approach. We removed everything that wasn’t absolutely essential. And then in addition to that, I formed three principles to guide the team through this ambitious, messy process. Those are:

• Lightness
• Simplicity
• Scalability

And those are not just fancy words: they mean something. 

Lightness

O: So when it comes to lightness, it’s fairly straightforward. We are obsessed with weight. Not in the same way the fashion industry is – but we do care about every single gram. Because if it’s not light, you’re not gonna want to wear it for more than 10 minutes. And it’s not only about lightness but about balance. How it’s balanced on your face, and the way we designed it with our construction methods, and material choices, and how we place the components.

It weighs less than most sunglasses and regular glasses on the market. It’s pretty cool.

Simplicity

O: But it’s not only about physical lightness, it’s about visible lightness. We took the approach of hiding some of the largest components on the board behind the frame, so we could create this one, clean, simple appearance from the side. 

Scalability

O: When I joined the project, we thought we needed 50 different adjustment mechanisms, but that wouldn’t make a good user experience. So we scaled it down to this one adjustment mechanism.

We make Glass modular. In this stage, this means you’re able to remove the board from the main frame. This is pretty cool. This opens up a lot of possibilities. It opens up possibilities for not only functionality but also scalability.

SlashGear will be exploring Google Glass in each of its software updates up to and through the point at which it becomes a consumer product in 2014. The Glass team have let it be known that upgrades in software will be sent each month – at least – and that the final consumer product may look similar to what we’re seeing in the Explorer Edition that everyone is wearing out in public today, or it could have several modifications in hardware as well by then.

Google Glass team talks hardware principles: Lightness, Simplicity, Scalability is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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