Sweep away

curious, what do you think. ease of use that turns into annoyance and laziness.

http://www.galaxie-vac.com/sweep-away-%202.html

Shoplifters cost retailers £205m

The value of goods stolen from shops has hit a 10-year high, a survey of High Street retailers has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7068593.stm

Future gazing

Ten years ago the BBC launched its news website, when only early adopters might have foreseen a day with news available online, on the move and on hand-held gadgets.
But children born in 1997 have known nothing but a wired world; so we asked 10-year-olds at Norfolk’s Millfield Primary School how we might receive the news in the future.

A great way of working!!! really intereasting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/magazine_bbc_news_website0s_10th_anniversary/html/1.stm

check this out

http://www.ted.com/talks

technology blog, updated regularly. good to have a look at, hope that you are all well.

cable managment

http://www.oboiler.com/picket/picket.html

Rubbish charging given go-ahead

Councils in England are to be given the power to introduce pilot schemes to charge households according to the amount of rubbish they throw away.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7067971.stm

user ad campaign

Quite an interesting idea to approaching a product and the things that surround it.

http://adsneeze.com/2007/10/29/durex-performa-last-longer

Out-of-hours NHS care 'failing'

The NHS is failing to offer sufficient out-of-hours GP care for severely ill patients, experts have said.

Existing services are "inadequate and inflexible" and there is a need for better diagnostic facilities, the Royal College of Physicians taskforce said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7064398.stm

Mitsubishi Wakamaru

curious and I think over designed.

http://www.mhi.co.jp/kobe/wakamaru/english/about/index.html

Design competition, december deadline

dining in 2015 at work, during travel, at home

http://www.designboom.com/macef08.html

Nurses to decide on resuscitation

Experienced nurses should have the authority to decide if patients should be resuscitated, according to new guidelines to health professionals.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7065010.stm

Wall detail

http://www.oboiler.com/plugs/cleat.html

Ministers rule out smacking ban

A complete ban on smacking has been rejected by ministers, after a review suggested most parents opposed it.
Laws on smacking in England and Wales were tightened in 2004 to stop parents and carers who assaulted children using "reasonable punishment" as a defence.

Interesting social issue, can design intervene

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7061603.stm

D&AD Award

enter this, my students!

http://awards08.dandad.org/

Design competition in 26th october

entry categories

Cooking Electrics
Cookware &Bake ware
Cutlery
Floor Care Electrics
Food Preparation Electrics
Furniture
Home Environment Electrics

Home Organization,Non-Electric Laundry Care &Cleaning Products
Kitchen Hand Tools
Kitchenware& Barware
Lighting, Home Décor & Outdoor Living
Personal Care,Health Care Products & Garment Care Electrics
Tabletop
http://www.housewares.org/industry/design_awards/

Social project

Twelve teenagers are being given the chance to take part in a radical social experiment. For three weeks they will be left alone to create and run their own school, from scratch.

Under the teenagers' supervision is a group of spirited twelve-year-olds. As well as having a real budget to manage, the teenagers have to feed their pupils, organise activities, entertain and teach them, delivering a curriculum that covers academic and creative subjects.

The teenagers’ school is also subject to regular inspections to make sure it's maintaining standards.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/kids_alone/

jeans

http://www.insightoutsight.co.uk/

Weird bowl

curious

http://www.eatmecrunchy.com/how-it-works.html

Jails adapted for foreign inmates

The Prison Service has converted two jails so that they hold only foreign national prisoners, it is revealed. Bullwood Hall, Essex, and Canterbury Prison, Kent, have been taking foreign offenders since the 2006 crisis over prisoners who had not been deported.

The Ministry of Justice said the jails which have immigration and language services were part of a plan to deport as many foreign prisoners as possible. More than 11,000 of the 81,000 prison population are foreign nationals.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7059283.stm

Students observations

We had a mini project where the students were looking for different definitions of word within the contexts of observing products and how people observe them.

I think that all of the participants learned looking is just as important as designing in a studio and can throw up interesting solutions. Good work guys, a few examples above.

dog earthquake

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/071017/ids_photos_wl/r2931088283.jpg

michael gunners, piece

Collapsible RoboticChair

http://uk.gizmodo.com/2007/10/20/selfhealing_robot_chair.html
Robotic gun fires on own soldiers. I found this a disturbing and sadstory of how design can go horribly wrong, and how a simple error indesign can cost lives...

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/19/robotic-cannon-
turns-killerDisney to offer 2 for 1 blu-ray DVDs.This made me think how the current format war is going to be hell forparents. Their going to need two seperate players to be able to playall their kids favourite movies.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9304

medical

good definition of medical conditions.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/default.stm

Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former

check it out, directions on how to make your own vac former. Please be careful though, forming plastic can get hot.

http://makezine.com/11/vacuumformer/

Obesity 'not individuals' fault'

Individuals can no longer be held responsible for obesity and government must act to stop Britain "sleepwalking" into a crisis, a report has concluded.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7047244.stm

restaurant opens to study diners

WAGENINGEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - Does service with a scowl put you off at lunch? Will you eat more greens if you are surrounded by plants? Does romantic, pink lighting encourage you to linger over your fruit salad?

A new research center -- dubbed the "restaurant of the future" -- at the Dutch university of Wageningen hopes to help answer these questions and more by tracking diners with dozens of unobtrusive cameras and monitoring their eating habits.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1023033620071015?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&sp=true

Airbag jacket

http://www.impactjackets.com/

Ease of use

its easier to use, but...?

http://www.the-backup.com/buy/commercial.php

bullies

Food champ targets pocket money

Ofsted reported a decline, following new healthy eating guidelinesSchool food champion Prue Leith says poor families should cut children's pocket money to pay for healthy meals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7045761.stm

'A gym 'prescription' got me mobile'

As a former PE teacher, sport was Cherry Protheroe's life. If she was not teaching it, she was taking part, training every spare minute and very fit and active.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6906266.stm

Metal phone

Schulze & Webb are continuing their work with Metal Phone and are developing a more consumable range of transformable products.

Metal Phone is an extension of work for Chris Heathcote of Nokia, Insight Foresight Group (now NEXT) to develop prototypes exploring personalisation in mobile phones.

http://schulzeandwebb.com/2005/personalisation/metalphone.html

Human LCD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpTJISyKGrA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecore77%2Ecom%2F

Graph

Amy Wang, a graphic designer that manipulates everyday products, this project was looking at integrating the metric system to the states, interesting. http://mfad.typepad.com/crit/2006/09/ametrica_an_int.html

Eco materials

Various materials that are sustainable, worth a look.

http://www.kingston.ac.uk/~kx19789/rematerialise/html_and_flash/index-type-vegetable.htm

Video games: The next generation

The video games industry is obsessed with the phrase "next generation", but what does it actually mean? What can gamers expect from any game given that name?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7041086.stm

DIY dentistry

Problems with getting an NHS dentist are leading some people to pull their own teeth out. If that's not enough to make you wince, then the potential pitfalls will be.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7045263.stm

DNA product

A man who remained at large for four years after a police DNA blunder has been jailed for life for a series of sex attacks on girls and young women.

This a traumatic area of life, can design intervene to make the social issues easier?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7045494.stm

Smart trolleys

LONDON (Reuters) - Supermarket shoppers may soon be cruising the aisles with "intelligent" trolleys that warn them if they're buying too much junk food, technology experts say.

While many would be happy enough if they could simply get their trolley to go in a straight line, the high-tech model will be fitted with a computer screen and barcode scanner.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3712022

Push up counter

Bit random, good product??

what do you think?

meet the natives

Television programmes such as Meet the Natives lay claim to using an anthropological methodology. In fact, they are a kind of cultural tourism, based on marvelling at how other cultures, customs and beliefs appear to differ from one's own.

Really intereasting point of view.

lecture 3

Konstantin-grcic, Benjamin Forman, Jule Jenckel, Yota Kakuda, Jessica Nebel, Joe Wentworth, folding bike handles, Art. Lebedev, Studio Respect electricity, Microsoft surface, Michael Korn, Stick safe

Sarah van gameren, Sebastiano Oddi, Daniel Eatock,
Donald Norman, the design of everyday things, Khashayar Naimanan, The Helen Hamlyn Centre, Design for future selves, Ideo, Pdd research

People looked at and discussed, google them for more info

laser cutters

Learn this, you do not have to make everything yourself. A fast reliable service.

http://www.steelservicecentre.co.uk/links.htm

Time saving moments

http://www.waitless.org/?video=bottlecap

Competition

For the past fifteen years, the event has been an exceptional opportunity for students to experience the rigors of competition and have industry leaders from around the world judge their work.

http://www.philamuseum.org/information/47-155-504-389.html

On the road with wi-fi and video

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7033352.stm

A virtual character

A virtual character, or avatar, for all the virtual worlds in which people play is the goal of a joint project between IBM and Linden Lab.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7038039.stm

Superbug errors cause 90 deaths

The commission found countless examples of dirtA "litany" of errors in an NHS Trust's poor handling of the infection clostridium difficile resulted in 90 deaths, a watchdog's report has found.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7037657.stm

Sprinkler

The shed antics continue.

http://www.curbly.com/Chrisjob/posts/2721-DIY-Sprinkler-Using-Recycled-Materials-

Sculpting interfaces

T’nD system
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The T’nD project has developed a shape modeling system consisting of a virtual haptic rack used by the designer to scrape material from an initial digital model of a product, and a .virtual sanding tool used for exploring and sanding a surface. The system provides contact feedback to the user, reflection lines for checking the surface quality, and class-A surfaces at the end of the scraping process.

http://www.kaemart.it/touch-and-design/wordpress/

Cardboard

Brilliant download-able cardboard furniture, designing a service as well as the finished product.

http://www.foldschool.com/_about/about_nicola.html

push chairs

A good company for Mother and toddler apparel

http://www.mamasandpapas.co.uk/

WI-FI detector shirt

Product Features
Glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength.
Shows signal strength for 802.11b or 802.11g
Black 100% Cotton T-Shirt
Animated Decal is Removable (with hook and loop fasteners) for Easy Washing
Battery Pack is Concealed in a Small Pocket Sewn Inside the Shirt
Runs for hours off three AAA Batteries (not included)

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/991e

Glow in the dark breathable fabric

Powerless lighting takes its next step according to Energlo's worlds first glow-in-the-dark waterproof and breathable fabric. This piece of fabric should glow at least three hours after only 10 minutes light exposure.

http://www.energlo.ca/

Amazing lifts

Quite a different experience.

http://deputy-dog.com/2007/10/02/interesting-elevators/

Call for major science campaign

A major campaign to boost the teaching of science and technology is needed if the UK is to keep its place in the global economy, a key report warns.

Can design intervene?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7030194.stm

sugar plastic

Dow to make PE from sugar Dow Chemical Co. plans to produce polyethylene (PE) from sugarcane in Brazil that will be indistinguishable, in composition and price, from polyethylene produced conventionally from petroleum.

The joint venture with Crystalsev, one of Brazil’s largest ethanol producers, is expected to start production in 2011. The new facility will use ethanol derived from sugarcane to produce ethylene, the raw material required to make PE.

http://www.fdp.com/

Stand by functions on electronics

Standby buttons face axe to curb energy waste.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article685096.ece

Bike/street furniture

space saving bike lock, style street furniture.

http://wolters-streetfurniture.eu/eng/overrvdb.htm

First brief sussex 2nd year hand in

Assingment 1 Week 4, E+D Dept office!

Design for the MOD

Design for the MOD can be the most functional, considered and User centred. The objects must be well made, practical and durable. There are many technologies that have been developed for the MOD that have led to advances.

MRI/Ration (food) packs were developed for the field but have changed the way that many countries deal with crisis situations. Ethics, where does this come into it? would you view change if it was your son, mate, brother/sister, girlfriend/boyfriend?

Super glue was originally developed for the Vietnam war as an instant 'stitch up', now used in every household. Discuss...

good bike tool

http://www.topeak.com/2007/products/tools/alien2.php

the elderly and design

Good PDF guide.

http://www.design.lth.se/aldreochdesign/elderlypeopleanddesign_screen.pdf

Designers to look at 1

Noam Toran, James Leckey (wheel chairs & furniture), Bill Gaver (drift table),
Julia lohmann (material responsibility), Yumiko Tanaka (playble), random international (pixel roller), Tony Dunne, Ideo.

Good people for further reading, Google them, its WORTH IT.

Bathing for the elderly

http://hhrc.rca.ac.uk/archive/hhrc/programmes/ra/2003/barney.html

Car seats

A good line in whats out there.

http://www.mothercare.com/gp/node/n/42770041/202-8878471-1423831%3Fie%3DUTF8%26mcb%3Dcore%26extid%3Dps_ggl_CarSeats_General/CarSeats_carseats?gclid=CKTDgcLS-I4CFQcwlAodj0ajIQ

Bike pedals

Well Engineered pedals, very functional and taking a fresh view of an old product.

http://www.crankbrothers.com/eggbeater.php

Tactile CAD

touch creating CAD. very intereasting.

http://www.eca.ac.uk/tacitus/index.htm

Poo

better poop scoop

http://www.swoopthepoop.com/site/1/index.html

Welcome

Welcome Sussex Engineering students.

This blog is to keep you informed of things that are happening in the user centred world of design. But I only have one set of eyes so part of the course is to add to it. You will learn that the student next to you will teach you a great deal.

Share your knowledge with your colleagues, it makes life easier and more fun.

Robot Dancer

The Partner Ballroom Dance Robot uses force and torque sensors to anticipate and match their partner's steps. Apparently this gentleman is really "turning her on" right now.

http://www.nomura-g.co.jp/technical/PBDR-en.html

Disability act

http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/guides_to/disability_act.shtml#some_examples_of_things_not_covered_by_the_act

FUN

Children with disabilities want more places to hang out and to be treated better, according to a report.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7010000/newsid_7013100/7013170.stm

Alert card for autism is launched

An alert card to help emergency services identify when they are dealing with someone with an autism-related condition is being trialled in Essex.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7021643.stm

GB blind team claim Beijing spot

The Great Britain blind football team reached the Beijing Paralympics after finishing runners-up to Spain in the European Championships in Greece.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/7005803.stm

Cheap printer cartridges

http://www.mx2.co.uk/prodpage.asp?type=search&searchwhat=*EPS5*

Mass observation

29 November: Mass Observation Commission

Mass-observation, Ffotogallery, Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff CF5 1QE -
Tel: 01273 67 8157
Email: library.specialcoll@sussex.ac.uk
Website: www.massobs.org.uk

FFotogallery and Photoworks in association with Mass Observation Archive at The University of Sussex wish to commission a visual artist to create a new body of work in response to the ideas and archive of Mass Observation. Please send letters of interest + a current CV + examples of previous work in CD or print form.

Martino Gamper

Always developing interesting furniture and great ideas.

http://www.gampermartino.com/